Thanks again David, I knew you were a goldmine of info on this! Will report back when I make the move.
best, d. David Merrill wrote: > Hi Derek - > The fan is pretty quiet, so I wouldn't worry about fan noise in your > equation.. With respect to which EPIA board - I have been happy with the > performance of all of the ones I've used, but I wasn't doing > particularly compute-heavy operations most of the time. For instance, I > have a voice recorder/sampler/looper application that serves 4 people at > the same time from a single EPIA board, and has no trouble (on either > the 1.5Ghz board, the 1.2, or a 1.0) - but when I tried to run two > instances of PD that were each doing multiple partitioned convolutions > (I think 8 partconv~ objects in each patch) it started to have trouble > on the 1.0 board. In general, linux and PD run well on the VIA boards. > If you want to do any graphics though, you will absolutely need to > install the VIA-specific graphics drivers, otherwise it runs really > clunky. Actually, for whatever you're doing, using the VIA drivers is > probably a good idea, to get the maximum HW utilization. > -David > > On Feb 27, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Derek Holzer wrote: > >> @ David: >> >> a Delta is approx EUR 160, not too much more than 4 iMics over here. >> >> Would you recommend the EPIA EN 15000G C7 over the EPIA MII 12000G >> 1.2Ghz? Or maybe the EPIA EN 12000G Fanless C7 if I want to go fanless >> with the same CPU speed? How loud is the fan on the EN board you used in >> the Audiopint? And most important, how much PD can you squeeze out of it? >> >> @ Olme: >> >> thanks for the suggestion, but 500 MHz is waaaaaayyyyyyy too slow ;-) >> >> thx + best! >> d. >> >> >> -- >> derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: >> http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista >> ---Oblique Strategy # 130: >> "Question the heroic" >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list >> UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> >> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list > > -- > MIT Media Lab > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://web.media.mit.edu/~dmerrill/ > > > > -- derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl ::: http://blog.myspace.com/macumbista ---Oblique Strategy # 90: "In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
