Intel 815e chipset on Asus

[Rochey]

It seems more and more dangerous to try and buy a motherboard for a DAW these days.

From the research I've done, it seems that VIA chipsets are a real bother.

Is the Intel 815e a good chipset to use with the MAudio Delta 1010?

I will be running logic audio platinum 4.6 on it, along with win98lite
along with a network card, and a Matrox 450 dual head video card

Good? Bad?

Feedback --- PLEASE!!!


Rochey

 

[Emeric]

The ASUS CUSL2-C is a popular board for DAW's at the moment. I've not used one with my Delta, but I'd say the odd's are good that you will not have many problems.

Email midi-man, and see what they have to say. This will probably be my next upgrade path, unless Slack's testing with the AMD products come back favourable..

 

[ap]

I've been suffering over this question more than a week now. I just ordered ASUS CUSL2-C w/ the 815 chipset.

I use the 1010 also and found a problem listed on the Midiman site about pops etc. with the CUSL2(the "-c" means no audio/video). I called Midiman tech support and they said that was an old problem, isn't really relevant any more, and one of the guys there used the cusl2-c with no probs.

He did say VIA boards are problematic.

 

[keith turner]

good solid board. been using mine no problem for about five months of heavy tracking with a motu 2408 and p3-800. mine has onboard video no audio. good luck with your setup. keith

 

[j]

i think i'm gonna go with one of the cusl2 series boards, though it won't take more than 512 mbs of ram....i'm probably gonna go for the cusl2-c

 

[j]

ps...i think intel has something similar to the cusl2 that has a video option and goes for about the same as the asus board. i' m gonna check that one out before i decide. whichever, i'm gonna go without video , so i can get an ati card and record star trek voyager reruns and seven of nine's lovelies

 

[Hard2Hear]

If you're adding a video card, you don't need the video option anyways....cause you're adding a video card...

H2H

 

[Torpid-x]

When (if) you get it

Check out the website www.cusl2.com for updates on drivers and bios, mine's great I love this board, if you don't want to add a video card...if your not a gamer, you should just get the regular cusl2, the video is fine for anything but games and video work. theres no sound on the regular version either, well, it's optional on both, make sure you don't get sound, just to be safe.

TX

 

[RWhite]

I think I've beaten this subject to death, so rather than type a response I'll just paste it in from another post....

"I am using a Gadget Labs Wave 824 card in a ASUS P3V4X motherboard, using the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset, running @533. I have another system upstairs with the same motherboard with a SoundBlaster Live and an ATI Radeon card. NO PROBLEMS. I have yet to hear a single reliable report of a compatability problem in a board with a new VIA chipset. And if you want to go AMD they are the way to go, just look at the mb choices out there. Check the reviews on Tomshardware.com as well.

"And if it matters, I also purchase my company motherboards (my day job is IT at a Telecom company). The last three generations of board I purchased were all ASUS, the P3B series (440BX) followed by P3V4X (VIA) and currently the CUV4X-E (also VIA). Now obviously we don't do audio production on these, but I will vouch that of the last 200 systems I purchased I had only 1 motherboard failure (that was a BX and it was probably due to a power surge). So I have no problem recomending ASUS."

The idea that new VIA chipsets have problems is bullshit, pure and simple. Enough said.

 

[joemix]

VIA

I just built an Asus CUV4X-E based system yesterday. It's a PIII 866, with 40gb ATA 100 hard drive. So far it is working great with my 1010. It may even be a little faster than the CUSL2-C, I don't know the official specs. The i840 based PIII I have with dual 10K SCSI drives and 800mhz RDRAM however does not work with the 1010. Pops and clicks..Beware! Why is it that I feel like I'm beta testing for midiman?