On Jul 20, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Neal Campbell wrote: > That system is on the bottom end of what I would go with, especially > with integrated video and 1GB of memory. The video is stealing system > memory
32M > so I bet you have some memory swapping going on (which would > also be shown as you got improvements by giving priority to the > background functions). Swapping with a gig with only PowerSDR, VAC, and MixW running? This boggles my mind. > If you are locked on the x2 3800, I am not locked into running anything in particular. It was a machine slated to run solaris to be a file server and I pressed it into service to run windows in order to try out the '5K. > go buy a video card asap. I have several kicking around but they are pretty old and stupid. > While > there, buy another gig of memory. I am not sure if a separate > firewire card would help but they are dirt cheap so it cannot hurt! I fail to see why another firewire card would be better than the one on the MB. I don't know how the one on the MB is interfaced but it certainly can't be any worse than plugging something in the PCI bus. Regardless, I have another firewire card kicking around if I want to use it. > Sorry to give you this advice but thats what I would advise. <shaking head> This is just crazy. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
