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Oh there are known good boards out there. MSI I have had issues with actually. As far as using PCI and PCIe slots. Its that The UAD and TCpowercore place more demands on the system than a soundcard in some ways. Ironic in that they are marketed as being there to relieve your CPU! I am using a relat...

If it helps, I went through my email and found the Newegg invoice from the system that I built for my church a little under a year ago, and here's the motherboard I used: MSI 945P NEO3-F 945P 775 That motherboard's got 4 Delta 1010LTs in it, with the 32 analog i/os patched into the insert jacks of a...

I'm surprised noone brought up the infamous Four hundred dollar audio knob. It is made of a special wood and lacquer of course... ....ain't it pretty http://web.archive.org/web/20050211032944/http://www.referenceaudiomods.com/images/products/ac/knobc.jpg Amazing wooden knob You guys are all missing...

Man, let me just say that the 20" white iMacs have possibly the most annoying latches in the world. I just had to help someone take one apart, and after 20 minutes of jabbing at it with the $10 bent piece of plastic that Apple sells specifically for this purpose, following along with a guide from Ap...

Maybe I'm missing some key information here, but I don't see why a board with PCIe graphics and PCI slots would have any trouble with a PCI card. The two systems aren't even in the same area, PCIe is on the northbridge and regular PCI is on the southbridge, so it wouldn't make sense to use a separat...

Now it definitely sounds like you're using the wrong driver. Cubase only comes with two drivers, the ASIO MME and ASIO Directx drivers. These are generic drivers that are intended to be used with consumer soundcards, and the MME and Directx parts of their names indicate that they have to go through ...

Also, note that there is some requirement that you have at least 126 megs of page file, see here . There is a lot of info, here , although I endorse nothing. The requirement for a minimum pagefile size of 126mb is only for if you care about whether or not Windows produces a proper debugging log if ...

Speaking of knobs, I just finished putting together a stepped attenuator to use as a control room volume, and I'm looking for a really nice 6.3mm shaft knob to put on it. Does anybody have any links? I think I'd prefer metal to bakelite/plastic, and it can't be bigger than 1RU in height.

According to Dan Lavry over at this thread ( http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/mv/msg/14324/22983/0/ ), you should always clock from an internal source when you can, because it's inherently better than syncing to word clock. At least for reasonably designed converters, he didn't specify whi...

Yeah, I'm not sure where people got the idea that flash memory was particularly fast for general purpose stuff. Seek times are amazing because there's no platter to spin, but even standard HDs from 5 years ago kill flash in sustained transfer. Your OS is doing both, so put it on a regular HD. If you...

I know it's lame, but I'm going to quote my post from the other thread. Generally agree on all these points, and I don't think you recommended anything that isn't a good choice. (sorry about the double negative, I'm saying your recommendations are good). The Chenming case looks decent, but I'm not ...

http://recforums.prosoundweb.com/index.php/mv/msg/14324/22983/0/ if anyone wants to check out the Lavry/Apogee thread. FWIW I had no idea who Dan was and the utmost respect for apogee before I read it. Now I would say I have much respect for Dan and count Apogee as another company that is market dr...

awesome. thanks guys. when i got my last computer i had them only install service pack 1, as i'd heard (read) that sp2 was 'no good for audio' i.e. it was a bunch of unnecessary junk, still true? God no, running XP without SP2 gives me the shivers just thinking about it. Service packs are generally...

Start with this: http://www.theorica.net/safexp.htm It's nice because it's hard to break anything with it. Turning off services is fun, but if you don't know what you're doing you can ruin an XP install. I learned that the hard way long ago... in general, XP is actually a lot less piggy about runnin...

Keep in mind though, that supporting multiple cores and using them efficiently are two different things. I can't speak to Sonar because I haven't used it before, but I know that with my Athlon X2 rig and Cubase 3 SX the load balancing is definitely NOT optimal. It seems to be related to how you grou...