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Reply #90
« on: October 30, 2007, 03:21:07 PM »
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Well, so far so good. The new bits arrived at around 12.30 and despite stopping for lunch by 3pm I was playing new material into AA. installation was reasonably painless, though the second IDE port on the Asus MB is about as far away from my DVD writers as it's possible to get, and without a longer cable than that supplied I've only managed to reach one of them in my average-size tower case. I also had to disable the SATA/RAID boot rom, despite a strong warning in the manual against it, to allow the system to boot up with the Plextor writer connected - the only point where there was any head-scratching on my part.

There seem to be an excess of features I've not bothered with - remote control, for example - but once I'd stopped fighting with XP wanting to install new hardware and Plextools trying to take over the DVD writer I managed to get the two driver discs in and installed painlessly. I'm sure I've got a GB more memory than XP will use, so what happens to that I don't know. As for my four cores, well three of them are currently idle (during mono 32-bit record) and one is rather snootily lowering itself to providing about 3 percent of its available juice for this menial task! grin

I did run a quick NR using Izotope's new RX suite, which at its most extreme setting is desperately power hungry, and it does seem to bring thing to somewhere within the realms of the practical - in other words hugely faster than before, if still nowhere near real time. What I didn't check was whether it was using all four cores at this point - if not I have no idea whether I can persuade it to. Quad-core I may have, but about it I know practically nothing...
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Reply #91
« on: October 30, 2007, 04:48:48 PM »
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32-bit XP will use about 3.4GB out of the 4GB (which is better than some motherboards, or 32-bit Vista, will allow).  If you want one program to use more than 2GB (only Hauptwerk, out of non-server programs I know, can benefit from this) you need a /3GB switch in boot.ini.  But otherwise, the spare memory (up to 3.4GB, that is) is used as system cache, and of course more programs can be loaded simultaneously without interfering.  If a 64-bit upgrade should become desirable within the life of this system, then the whole memory will be accessible to it.

Similarly with the cores - not many programs will use them all, but several programs can use different cores, and Windows itself can use a different core from the programs that are running, so the net effect is a more responsive system.  With the recent general appearance of dual and quad core processors in normal systems, there will surely be a lot of pressure for programmers to enable their programs to use them.

Paul
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Reply #92
« on: October 30, 2007, 06:29:29 PM »
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I'll tell ya my dual core computer is running great...super fast....it's like driving a race car to go grocery shopping ...maybe a bit overkill, but it's running very quick.....I tried converting a wav file to mp3 the other day.... and zoooooop, in about 2-3 seconds it was done.

Vista has been running great so far....only problem is no Vista drivers for the 1010LT or 2496 sound cards.
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Reply #93
« on: October 30, 2007, 06:36:13 PM »
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A certain imminent audio program has been coded to take full advantage of multicore processors, it says... grin

Meanwhile I've cracked through a load of work this afternoon in a fraction of the usual time. Being able to run three or four processor-intensive tasks simultaneously without taking a hit on any of them is - for now - amazing.

Getting back briefly to this new Izotope package. The most extreme NR process is now about 4 times faster than my old PC, but still runs at less than half real time. However., I can power up four instances of Izotope RX and run them in parallel on four different files. Net result - 16 times greater work-rate. Now that's real progress for me...
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Reply #94
« on: November 11, 2007, 11:54:54 PM »
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Can everyone w/ recent "new" PC please post final specs: MB / RAM / CPU / PS / CASE

Thanks / Brewer
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Reply #95
« on: November 12, 2007, 12:33:50 AM »
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Can everyone w/ recent "new" PC please post final specs: MB / RAM / CPU / PS / CASE

Thanks / Brewer

MB--------------------ASUS P5N32-E SLI

Ram------------------2 Gig Kingston

CPU------------------Intel Duo Core E 6750

PS--------------------500 watt el cheapo that came with the case

Case----------------- ATX case made by Eagle from Micro Center (el cheapo)

Video card---------EVGA 7300 GS

Hard Drive---------Seagate 250 gig SATA

External Drive--- Maxtor 60 gig (backup files only)

OS--------------------Windows Vista

DVD recorder-----Samsung with Light Scribe.

Mouse--------------Logitech Mable Mouse

Sound Card---High Definition Mini card that came with the motherboard( Note: This is until M-Audio comes out with drivers for the Audiophile 2496 or 1010LT)
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Reply #96
« on: November 12, 2007, 12:35:38 AM »
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As mentioned in this thread.....

Intel P35 vs X38 2/10/2007

Intel P35 vs X38 October 04 2007

Intel X38 Chipset: A Porsche with the Handbrake On September 26, 2007

X38 Comparison Part 1: DDR2 Motherboards October 31, 2007

Intel Core 2 E6750 September 17, 2007

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 September 18, 2007

Asus P5W DH Deluxe October 11, 2006

Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus: Mod Rod May 24, 2007

Asus P5E-VM DO

Intel® Desktop Board D975XBX2

Asus Motherboards - Full List

Intel Motherboards - Full List

AMD  Motherboards - Full List

Intel® Processor Numbers

AMD CPUs

One way to build a PC: put together parts that have been released for a while, so as to know the pros/cons of the gear. What's missing from the above? 
The mac!!!
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Reply #97
« on: November 12, 2007, 01:24:54 AM »
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The iMacs were indeed mentioned as the new ones are being built with Intel Duo 2 Core processors, just like the one in my computer. I think that's kind of cool.  Half PC /half iMAC...hehehehehe......
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Reply #98
« on: November 12, 2007, 01:27:41 AM »
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iMacs / Right!!!
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Reply #99
« on: November 12, 2007, 01:29:19 AM »
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The most important thing is, does Adobe Audition 3 work with it....?? I give it a resounding YES !!!....Flawlessly.
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Reply #100
« on: November 14, 2007, 05:11:56 PM »
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Spec:

ASUS A5B motherboard

Dual Core E660

4 Gb 800Mhz DDR2 memory

ATI 1950XPro PCIx16 graphics card

Corsair 520 W modular power supply

Arctic Freezer CPU cooling

4 x 250 GB S-ATA drives

S-ATA CD/DVD Read/Write

1 External WD 500GB drive (Backup)

Mia Midi Soundcard

22" Samsung Syncmaster 226BW Monitor

Logitech MX518 mouse

Logtech wireless keyboards

The CPI is overclocked to 300 Mhz and operates without a hiccup
The video card is overclocked to  GPU 614.25 and MEM 729 and also operates without a hitch.

I have noticed on many occasions that I can start two parallel activities without them interfering with each other - unpacking large archives etc. and that AA3.o runs like a dream with the new setup
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