I'm sure you're correct, but I went to the FW card because of problems with the built-in sound card. Presumably that had the least overhead of all.
Wes N7WS --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Larry Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Phipps <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 69, Issue 53 > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 6:56 AM > I think you'll find that the FW card > takes fewer resources than a USB card, at least that's what > I've found as a general rule. On my system anyway, the PCI > sound cards take the least resources, followed by FW, > followed by USB. The same is generally true of serial ports. > If you have a desktop PC, always lean towards PCI interfaces > rather than USB if you have the slots to do so. > > FWIW, I have 6 sound cards installed on a 2.8GHz P4 without > problems, but the USB cards add about 50% to the CPU load > when they're running. > > Larry N8LP > > > > Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:35:17 -0800 (PST) > From: Wes Stewart <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT] PCI Express sound card for > digimodes > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected], > G4ILOJulian <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Hi Lance, > > Hmmm... I don't think so. The computer has a 2.3 GHz > Core2 Duo processor and 2 GB of RAM. As I said, but > not clearly enough, I gave up on the LP-Pan (for now anyway) > so it wasn't running. The only thing running was > whichever RTTY/log software and Firefox, which I use for > looking at Internet spots. Since in some of these > contests I was in an unassisted category, even that wasn't > always open. > > Regards, > > Wes > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
