On Tuesday 26 January 2010, Jim Coleman wrote:
>Gene,
>Did you have to address latency issues? Are you using a dual-core cpu
>and kernel?
I don't think I do Jim. Its a Mach Speed mobo, with an xp-1400 athlon on it
that this board actually runs at 1600 mhz, and runs it 60F cooler than the
same cpu & memory ran at on a Biostar board. Its ide interface gets
confused, so I can't run 2 hd's on it, even on separate cables, but other
than that, once the onboard video was disabled & a video card that speaks
vesa is installed in the agp slot, its worked like a champ
>I've considered using this intel pentium-D 2.8ghz comp with an ATI
>X-1300 for my EMC machine, but I'm doubting any real gains over the
>'old' comp, which is a P4 1.8 (non HT), 512 megs PC133 and 32 meg
>nvidia TNT2. my main influence for thinking of changing is the video
>drivers, and the dual core can keep RT and video threads separate.
Only if you can convince linux to keep them separated, and I'm not aware of
anyone doing that successfully.
>The machine will be running a mesa 5i20, so I'm not sure how much
>latencies will matter.
With the 5i20, longer latencies s/b tolerable. I'm running steppers (4 at
times) here, so it becomes a little pickier about latencies.
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