> I do believe the stability of my new system is that all the peripherals, > 24 bit/96KHz sound, USB, 1394, Ethernet, SATA raid controller, ATA raid > controller are all on the motherboard & the video card was also made by Asus
I bet that 24bit/96KHz sound that's on the mobo doesn't sound so good. I have yet to find mobo sound that is good. And IIRC, Brian is da man when it comes to hi-fi sound, so he's got to be even pickier than I am. Even my Sound Blaster Live card, which is supposed to be a hi-fi card, has residual noise that I can hear during passages of silence. I'd estimate (with my earscope) that it has about 14-bits of s/n ratio, even though it's a 16-bit card. The Biostar and Via mobo sound I have is maybe 11-bit s/n ratio, at best. Brian, I'm glad your new mobo still has serial and parallel ports. Oh, God, please don't take away my serial and parallel ports! I see you are running Protel 99SE on it, and it flys. If you really want to strain it, load the Visual Studio .NET suite on it. I know a developer who says the new .NET stuff slows his dual PIII to a crawl. That's a big reason he is still developing with Visual Studio 6. You can also tax it with Autodesk Inventor. Best regards, Ivan Baggett Bagotronix Inc. website: www.bagotronix.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Guralnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:19 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] New PC tested with Protel for at least 1 month now... > I do believe the stability of my new system is that all the peripherals, > 24 bit/96KHz sound, USB, 1394, Ethernet, SATA raid controller, ATA raid > controller are all on the motherboard & the video card was also made by Asus > ensuring a trouble free 8X AGP functionality. It even more stable than my > old Dual PIII 1 GHz. Also, the 2 X 120 Gbyte Western Digital HDs read & > write at over 100 Megabytes / second on a continuous basis. > > I'm sure if I added 1 card to the PCI bus, the boot time would probably > double. > > Additional, I have successfully over clocked this motherboard to 4.1 > GHz, though, I don't think it's worth the potential headaches. > > _____________ > Brian Guralnick * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
