| Dual Core Benchmarks Results [message #54783] |
Tue, 21 June 2005 06:56  |
Chris Ludwig
Messages: 868
Registered: May 2006
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ot; <animix_spamless_@animas.net> wrote:
>Chris,
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>Just an FYI, the reason I use the ASUS A7V8X mobo on both my rigs ( Paris
>and Cubase SX) is because it's very stable and it's chipset and architecture
>supports using the old Matrox G450 AGP and PCI graphics cards. It appears
>that the ASUS PCI architecture is pretty consistent across the boards in
>that the AGP is hard wired to both PCI #2 and #6-bad news for these slots
as
>far as using audio/DSP cards. However, PCI #4 doesn't share with any other
>device in the system - good news for Magma owners. There may well be much
>better dual head video cards out there these days, but for using a quad
>monitor display, the G450's are very stable with the VIA chipset and since
>they share the same driver, are pretty bulletproof in my system if the PCI
>card is used in PCI slot #2.
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>I'm looking at this ASUS board and thinking that for around $1500.00 (the
>cost of the Athlon 64 X2 4600,
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E168191035 41 plus 2 x
1 G
>sticks of DDR PC3200RAM, or even less for 4 x sticks of 512 ),
>I could migrate my existing hardware to a new system that would be pre
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