> I cant stress enough here, use Ahead NERO CD writer software. If you ever install Easy CD Creator from Roxio, formerly made by > Adaptec, I will GAURANTEE mysterious system hangs when occasionally changing CD, writing CDs, and other weird unexplained > phenomenon. It's not worth the headache!
Are you saying that the Easy CD Creator crashes on any system, or just the one you have? I have it on my dual-PIII (1 GHz) CADzilla machine and it works OK. BTW, I like my dual-PIII system. It's over a year old now, but still rocks! ASUS CUV4X motherboard. Using Matrox G450, 512MB SDRAM, 60GB IDE, SBLive (no problems). I haven't used USB (yet). Also, Antec dual PCMCIA slots. Dual CPUs and W2K are the way to go for serious work. Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Guralnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 3:55 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] Anyone know of a Altera listserver? and Single/Dual CPU > I've been working with Altera tools for the last 6 years. Altera tool are not multi-threaded, but, like Protel, they do run more > smoothly with a dual CPU system. > > The 2 main key benefits of using Altera tools, (mainly Quartus) with 2 CPUs are: > > (1) If you use a multi-user network license & your server PC is also a work station, the dual CPU will make network requests run > un-interrupted, with 1CPU, if your server-work station is compiling a complicated design, the network license server can completely > pause for long durations. > > (2) While compiling 1 design, You can simultaneously work on another design with only a slight performance drop during design entry. > This is almost impossible to do with a 1 CPU machine. > > These 2 aspects are sort of similar to the response that Protel would give you while you auto-route 1 PCB, you are able to get > some other work done at the same time. > > System recommendations: > > For Protel & Quartus setup: > (a) Optimized for speed, but only 1 cpu. > 2.5 GHz P4 > 2 GB ram (in the OS, set your swap file size to be fixed at 3GB). > A 350 watt power supply & case. > NVidia chipset based GF4MX, make sure it has dual head, or twin view support, in case you ever want to use the feature in the > future. (These are the cheap ones, use only the latest drivers directly from NVidia's web site and you will have no problems with > Protel.) > Win2K Professional (just my preference) > New Western Digital 120GB, 7200rpm with 8mb onboard cache. It's the quietest & fastest drive for the price. (for the extra 15$, get > the 8mb cache version) > !!!During Win2k, or WinXP installation, do a slow full format. (TRUST ME on this 1, I don't know why, but it performs much better > once it's up & running.) > > I personally like to use a MSI sis656 motherboard with a MSI GF4MX video card. Use the motherboard sound card. Since MSI makes > both the Motherboard & Graphics card, the 2 together offer rock solid performance. > In the OS, disable the USB ports, use an old fashioned PS2 based keyboard & mouse. > Unless you really try something weird, you shouldn't be able to totally crash this system. > A CDRW drive, which comes packaged with Ahead NERO CD writer software. If you ever install Easy CD Creator from Roxio, formerly > made by Adaptec, I will GAURANTEE mysterious system hangs when occasionally changing CD, writing CDs, and other weird unexplained > phenomenon. > > > (b) Optimized for consistency of access. > dual 1.7 Ghz P4. Probably almost the same price as the a single 2.5GHz P4. > everything else should be the same. > > I cant stress enough here, use Ahead NERO CD writer software. If you ever install Easy CD Creator from Roxio, formerly made by > Adaptec, I will GAURANTEE mysterious system hangs when occasionally changing CD, writing CDs, and other weird unexplained > phenomenon. It's not worth the headache! > ------------------------------ > http://www.nero.com/en/index.html#root > ------------------------------ > > ____________ > Brian Guralnick > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * Tracking #: F35E864A76AE0545B9DCDF744E0125FD8F5C6317 * ************************************************************************ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
