Pentium ?

[mango]

HEY


Ill try this again! The same old Can OF WORMS. i AM TRYING TO GET IN THE COMPUTER MULTITRACK ARENA. Dedicate a computer to recording use, low budget aka. cheap! The question is AMD K chips vs. pentium s why the fracass ? Every other type of software seems to run fine on Amd harware. Is this just product loyalty or is there a reason? Could some one steer me alittle towards a low cost solution ex. a thourough article on
a roll your own computer remember the low budget part.

Thanks again ,

Mango

 

[ola]

It's not about product loyalty but rather compatibility. Some soundcard manufacturers clearly states that their cards don't work with the VIA chipset and thus not AMD processors.

 

[vox]

We PC recordists are such a small and insignificant piece of the market that Chipmakers and Operating system authors probably dont even think about us at all when they are creating new products, we are VERY VERY low on their list of priorities. Since we have such special requirements from a PC I think it's amazing that we can actually get the damn things to work at all on the proverbial 'table scraps' that we get.

 

[ola]

proverbial 'table scraps'

That's a good one - spot on.

/Ola

BTW Have you actually gotten your stuff working at all? If so, please share the knowledge.

 

[jrlemonz]

Fuckin AMD's, screw em

I bought an AMD as my last gray box of shit (aka computer) and it sucked on an unbelievably high level of sucking. It was fast enough (450 AMD k-2) to do many things it couldn't (ie running a 7200 rpm 20 gig hard drive, it ran it 1/4 as fast as my 5400) and also wasn't at all compatible with 3 different things I bought. Guillemot ISIS, nope. Some video card, nope (PCI 32mb one, dont remember brand). Some IEE394 controller card( i had to return it and buy a different one which was $100 more). This wouldn't have pissed me off as bad if all the things didn't have written clearly on their boxes "Compatabible with all computer systems". I know enough not to buy into that completely, but AMD's are not some little known breed. I am a very happy PIII800 user now.
Jake