New generation motherboards and chips?

[ashland]

I mentioned to friends that I was wanting A new
DAW and liked the price and performance reviews
of the new ECS boards with the SIS 735 chip and
DDR memory. I would pair it with an Athlon 1.4
and my Delta card to replace my old Intel setup.
Boy!...Did I get blasted!
I was advised I had better stick to an older
tried and true Asus or Abit board with the
VIA 133 chip and SDRAM or it would most likely
just crash and burn!
Has anyone tried the new generation chips and
memory for multitracking?
Will sound cards always need updates for new
generation harware?
Don't know which way to go on this.

Thanks,
Jim M

 

[Tussin]

Dude, just chill for now, what system do you have right now? If you ahve anything over a 500mhz, just go get like a gig of ram and you will be fine for quite a bit of time to come. I know DDR ram is what is next, so buying a gig of SDram would be kind of pointless. But its SOOOO cheap. Also intel is releasing, a new P4 with a new chipset. Bad time to buy a new setup right now.

 

[ElGee]

New Motherboard, DD vs SD Ram

I have the same questions about motherboards and ram as you. I am getting ready to buy a new system and would like to know if anyone is using DD Ram and whatever mobo that goes with it?
Delta 1010 - SONAR - AMD TBird 1.4 - W2K

I contacted Midiman today for info and the advice is to stick with the tried & true-SD ram and ASUS mobo and buy as much RAM as you can afford. He said they have had very few problems with this setup since the release of the Delta 1010 (18months). He did NOT say, however, that DD Ram was no good, he just had no experience with it. (which kind of seems odd to me seeing how they are the mfg???)

But the guy at our local computer supply house (a large company with a good technical department) says DD ram is supposed to be better and faster and that any bugs that were present, say, around the time that Pete Leoni wrote his article "Roll Your Own Thunderbird" on prorec.com have been ironed out. He also told me that he thinks they are making a 1 GB DD RAM DIMM which, I think, means that with say an ABIT mobo you could be running as much as 2 GB of Ram. Would that be enough with W2000?

Any info would be greatly appreciated!