Here's an e-mail I got from RME support guy, as much as Inspiron 8000 is concerned (which is what I have and must say am very happy with it). If you read on their website, they claim that the cooling fan interrupt is what causes monstrous latency at the moment it gets engaged/disengaged (due to crappy ACPI implementation, not sure whether it is hw or sw). That's why their matrix claims ridiculous latencies. Apropos that issue, I e-mailed RME since recently Dell had released latest BIOS update (A17) that made things a bit better, yet not that much better. Still, after finding out about this app which controls fans in software, my problems went away. I can not, however, vouch for the advertised 1.5ms latency stated below since I am running Linux and winME (which came with it and I didn't bother reinstalling since XP is just around the corner) and do not have Hammerfall DSP on my hands:
-----Original Message----- From: George Cabanniss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2001 11:04 AM To: Ico Bukvic Subject: Re: RME DSP & notebook tech info Hello Ico, This is the link to the fan fix;this combined with win2k reportedly results in latencies as low as 1.5 ms.Good luck! http://www.geocities.com/micha_henze/i8kfangui.html Regards, george P.S. There is also a linux version of this fan control program, and I am in the process of currently building a qt interface for it... Ico Bukvic, composer http://ping.ccm.uc.edu/~ico/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================ "To be is to do" - Socrates "To do is to be" - Sartre "Do be do be do" - Sinatra "Just do it" - NIKE
