RME users, help me out.. Mobo/chipset..

[TORUS AUDIO]

Hi guys..
Im building my new DAW and I have RME Hammerfall 9652..
I bought AMD Athlon 2500+ /333.
Didnot decide which mobo/chipset to go for..
What do you think about ASUS A7N8X-X????
That has NForce2 chipset , FSB 400..

Please gimme some recommendations

Thanx
TORUS AUDIO

 

[christiaan]

Sure, we can all empty a bucket of recommendations right at your feet but what are YOU looking for in a motherboard?
AMD cpus + nForce chipsets are known to work well with RME products.

 

[Polaris20]

RME recommends nForce2 chipsets, and with that I would highly recommend the Asus A7N8X MoBo. Yo.

 

[bgavin]

Avoid VIA chipsets.

The nForce boards will outperform VIA, and have less head aches with drivers and hardware problems.

The Asus and ABit nforce offerings are both excellent.

 

[RWhite]

The notion to avoid VIA chipsets is long, long obsolete by now.

 

[bgavin]

Perhaps, perhaps not.

The 4in1 drivers are currently in Release 48. Reading the errata shows me VIA makes a new bug every time they fix an old one.

Chipset releases:
KT133
KT133a (oops)
KT266
KT266a (oops)
KT333
KT400
KT400a (oops)
KT600

Then there are the various software patches to reprogram the chipset for bus hogging. Then some German guys found the VIA chipsets have a disk burst bug that puts them miles behind the Intel chipsets in disk performance. Logitech had a public notice on their web site state the number one problem of USB failures was VIA chipsets. That is now gone (read: lawsuit).

If the above isn't compelling enough, then consider the pure performance advantage of the nForce chipset compared to VIA. The market place is voting with its dollars, as VIA has now dropped out of the #1 slot.

 

[TORUS AUDIO]

...

I thought so..
I also have two 120 gig Western digital HHDs.. (7200)
Want to connect them with RAID controller for a better performance..
What do you think about it?

 

[christiaan]

Going for Raid (0) will imho only marginally improve the performance. You'll only get a higher transferrate but the transferrate of a modern single hard drive is >50MB/s already which is plenty for dozens of tracks. Access time will not improve.
ymmv.