nForce2 testing

boskovic · Post by **boskovic** » Wed Dec 04, 2002 6:53 pm

I would like to post my conclusions, but I have to post questins.
Anyone tested this chipset yet?
It appears that is overall better chipset than VIA but what about considering music production, generaly, and offcourse using Creamware cards.

MOFO · Post by **MOFO** » Wed Dec 04, 2002 7:54 pm

I want to know the answer as well. But it is very new so I doubt anyone has had much to do with them. The asus A7N8X looks good on paper though.

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Thu Dec 12, 2002 7:19 am

Yeah, really.
Anybody?

Maybe I have to be the first.

boskovic · Post by **boskovic** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 11:09 pm

Come on ppl doesn't anyone have mobo with nForce2???

Post by **garyb** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 11:11 pm

well,probably not.subhuman used to test 'em all....................

Post by **garyb** » Fri Dec 20, 2002 11:12 pm

hey!
YOU could be the one to experiment......

Privatny · Post by **Privatny** » Sat Dec 21, 2002 4:48 pm

Well, I just got myself one. The Epox 8RDA+.
So far all I can tell you is that those 3 Masterverbs I can load on my Luna are working as supposed to.
I'm having major problems with arranging IRQs however. It just doesn't seem to be possible to assign a (relatively) separate IRQ to the card. All PCI slots together with onboard peripherals and god knows what else, share only two IRQs.
I might have some more to say in a few days, as for now, if someone can tell me how to deal with the IRQs, it'd be very helpfull.

Get yourself an ASUS board though

Privatny

boskovic · Post by **boskovic** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 12:47 pm

On 2002-12-20 23:11, garyb wrote:
well,probably not.subhuman used to test 'em all....................

so where's subhuman

boskovic · Post by **boskovic** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 12:48 pm

On 2002-12-20 23:12, garyb wrote:
hey!
YOU could be the one to experiment......

yeah right....

boskovic · Post by **boskovic** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 12:52 pm

On 2002-12-21 16:48, Privatny wrote:
Well, I just got myself one. The Epox 8RDA+.
So far all I can tell you is that those 3 Masterverbs I can load on my Luna are working as supposed to.
I'm having major problems with arranging IRQs however. It just doesn't seem to be possible to assign a (relatively) separate IRQ to the card. All PCI slots together with onboard peripherals and god knows what else, share only two IRQs.
I might have some more to say in a few days, as for now, if someone can tell me how to deal with the IRQs, it'd be very helpfull.

Get yourself an ASUS board though

Privatny

thanks for reply man!
i'm very veeery much interested in Epox board but i dont understand about that IRQ issue. did you disabled onboard shit, and how many PCI cards do you have beside Luna?

Privatny · Post by **Privatny** » Sun Dec 22, 2002 5:28 pm

Well, they say that Windows (98SE in my case)
allways assign all PCI cards to just 2 IRQs, usually 5 and 11. And that's supposed to be OK. I was a bit worried, because I've got 4 PCI cards in there at the time, plus onboard LAN, Firewire, AC97, not to mention the ports and USB controlers... But they can all be disabled, as you said.
Modems and similar PCI cards don't belong into a DAW anyway and all Creamware expansion boards are ok sharing the same IRQ.

Furthermore I have to say that the new nForce2 boards are really cool for overclocking.

Everything can be done through BIOS. You only need an Athlon Thoroughbred (which is now also available in the quite cheap 1700+ version) and some good DDR and you can work miracles with it...

P

boskovic · Post by **boskovic** » Mon Dec 23, 2002 3:06 am

As i have said, disable all that unnecessary shit and enjoy you CW. Leave modem or some kind of Internet connection and get rid of everything else.

I've heard about nForce2 being good for OC but it would be better if someone could post some heavy MV load, and some impressions about using it for music production generaly.

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Thu Dec 26, 2002 1:58 pm

Privatny, do you have any additional plugins, optimaster or anything?
How many tracks of audio you have driven with it?

I served 20 tracks of 24bit waves and my beloved Abit (VIA thingy) allowed me to use 0 MasterVerbs :lol
Also, I couldn't use any of logic fx neither

And Cubase often claims about PCI bandwidth errors during application startup... I desperately need a new MOBO/CPU and nforce2 being the strongest choice right now.

Privatny · Post by **Privatny** » Fri Dec 27, 2002 9:45 am

So far I've done the following:
Cubase VST 5.1;
16 stereo 16bit channels at 48kHz and 3 MV. This tops up those poor 3 DSPs that my Luna has. So you'll need someone with SCOPE to test it any further. As far as I now from past posts on this subject though, even the nForce "1" boards (after a BIOS update)were'nt so bad.

P

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Wed Jan 22, 2003 4:56 pm

I have now Asus nforce2 board and a Scope card.
Tell me if you want any tests to be done.

boskovic · Post by **boskovic** » Fri Jan 24, 2003 7:07 pm

Test it in any way U know

spoimala · Post by **spoimala** » Sat Jan 25, 2003 5:01 am

you tell me your way

Look at the another topic, Asus a7n8x, there's one test.

boskovic · Post by **boskovic** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 5:48 am

The most important test is to put heavy load on PCI bus (you need 10-18 DSP) loading Masterverbs.
A guy named Subhuman used to do that for various chipsets so look for his posts about testing and aply