Sri, tried my best! GL Neal
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Brian Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > -- Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software Programming Services for Windows, OS X and Linux (540) 242 0911 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Try Spot for OS X, the intelligent DXCluster Client at www.abrohamnealsoftware.com - introduction priced at $10.99 ------------------------------------------------- For a great dog book, visit www.abrohamneal.com ------------------------------------------------- See the FlexRadio Systems Flex-5000a in action at www.flex-videos.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/
