Paul, I can vouch for the ASUS P5W with the Intel 975X chipset. Not particularly cheap but far superior performance to my previous AMD athlon board. I'm running the P5WD2 with a non-dual core cpu (P-4 HT LGA 775, 3.4 Ghz). It simply purrs along with 683 feeding a Firebox over 1394. CPU load averages about 6-9% running PowerSDR in "letter box" mode (@96k). Don't skimp on the memory for this board. Look at the v/low latency dual channel (DDR2 800) stuff, as its my understanding that memory performance is more important than an over abundance in capacity (in this specific case).
Good luck! Kirb - VE6IV -- [Flexradio] 683 comment *Paul Shaffer* flex1 at cyberplasm.com <mailto:flexradio%40flex-radio.biz?Subject=%5BFlexradio%5D%20683%20comment&In-Reply-To=> /Wed Sep 20 23:31:37 CDT 2006/ * Previous message: [Flexradio] Front panel rf-af <http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/2006-September/010377.html> * *Messages sorted by:* [ date ] <http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/2006-September/date.html#10378> [ thread ] <http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/2006-September/thread.html#10378> [ subject ] <http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/2006-September/subject.html#10378> [ author ] <http://mail.flex-radio.biz/pipermail/flexradio_flex-radio.biz/2006-September/author.html#10378> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ My pc doesn't seem to keep up with the new UI features. CPU reading varies a lot, from 50% to 70% generally. Tuning is not responsive as before with mouse wheel, there's a lot more going on as the display changes. Popping (or dropouts) in received audio is very noticable, audio/dsp buffers at 1024/1024. I don't think there's anything wrong with the software, and I like the new features, but I think it's time for a new motherboard and cpu. Here's what I'm looking at: ASUS P5W DH DELUXE/WIFI-AP Socket T (LGA 775) Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 Conroe 2.66GHz 4M sharing L2 Cache LGA 775 Processor Then I need a new case, 500W power supply, new drives, the works. The old pc gets shoved down to the next desk and becomes the #2 machine. A new pc like this will just barely keep me afloat for media center and hdtv as well. _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
