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The_Raven
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Howyadoin.
Just thought I'd share some experiences on the upgrades we've made this weekend on the DAW...
1. Twinview
Picked up a 32MB TNT2 PCI... Popped it in, Win2K recognized it and installed drivers. Restarted system, hung on restart. Restarted in safe mode, disabled 2nd card in Device Mangler, restarted ok. Then enabled card, setup Twinview, restarted, works very nicely. I am presently using old beater monitors, I can run 8X6 on one and 6X4 on the other simultaneously. Very sweet setup for what I'm doing, being able to dedicate one monitor to the audio recording software and one to the audio hardware control panel. And speaking of audio recording hardware..
2. M-Audio Delta 1010
Glitch-free install, very nice sound quality, but we'll have a better idea of how it's gonna work out after we tweak the signal chain (mic preamp with phantom power, etc..)
Flawless install though, and almost flawless on the Twinview... Man I love Win2K! CPU utilization is minimal unless actually recording, at which point it pegs out the CPU. Only using ~70MB of RAM, but I'm just doing one track for now to wring the sucker out.
BTW, CPU temp is ~140, is this too high? I hate messing around with chip fans, the new ones are a pain to mount and I feel like I'm gonna mangle the CPU when I install them, so maybe I'll just put a blower in...unless of course I decide to get that trick watercooling kit I saw... I could stand to reduce the noise the machine makes given the environment it's in.
That's it for now...
-Mark Pags
Sherbet Studios
MSI K7N 420 PRO (nVidia nForce chipset)
CPU: Athlon XP 1800+
RAM: 2X512MB DDR2700 Slots 1 & 3
Drives:
(1) Maxtor 60GB - system drive, UDMA 100 7200 RPM
Delta 1010 (analog/digital recording)
Asus 32X IDE CD-RW
Win2KPro w/SP2
Just thought I'd share some experiences on the upgrades we've made this weekend on the DAW...
1. Twinview
Picked up a 32MB TNT2 PCI... Popped it in, Win2K recognized it and installed drivers. Restarted system, hung on restart. Restarted in safe mode, disabled 2nd card in Device Mangler, restarted ok. Then enabled card, setup Twinview, restarted, works very nicely. I am presently using old beater monitors, I can run 8X6 on one and 6X4 on the other simultaneously. Very sweet setup for what I'm doing, being able to dedicate one monitor to the audio recording software and one to the audio hardware control panel. And speaking of audio recording hardware..
2. M-Audio Delta 1010
Glitch-free install, very nice sound quality, but we'll have a better idea of how it's gonna work out after we tweak the signal chain (mic preamp with phantom power, etc..)
Flawless install though, and almost flawless on the Twinview... Man I love Win2K! CPU utilization is minimal unless actually recording, at which point it pegs out the CPU. Only using ~70MB of RAM, but I'm just doing one track for now to wring the sucker out.
BTW, CPU temp is ~140, is this too high? I hate messing around with chip fans, the new ones are a pain to mount and I feel like I'm gonna mangle the CPU when I install them, so maybe I'll just put a blower in...unless of course I decide to get that trick watercooling kit I saw... I could stand to reduce the noise the machine makes given the environment it's in.
That's it for now...
-Mark Pags
Sherbet Studios
MSI K7N 420 PRO (nVidia nForce chipset)
CPU: Athlon XP 1800+
RAM: 2X512MB DDR2700 Slots 1 & 3
Drives:
(1) Maxtor 60GB - system drive, UDMA 100 7200 RPM
Delta 1010 (analog/digital recording)
Asus 32X IDE CD-RW
Win2KPro w/SP2
