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So I had to get rid of my fancy 128MB AGP video card (long story) in my p4
3ghz DAW system (cubase, delta 1010). I have a crappy old PCI card (I think
16MB) that will work, but I'm wondering if it will impair my ability to
record/playback audio via some kind of bandwidth bottleneck? I don't use
this comp for anything else but audio and I definately DO NOT play games on
general principle. What do you think? Thanks!

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Jonny Durango wrote:
So I had to get rid of my fancy 128MB AGP video card (long story) in

my p4
3ghz DAW system (cubase, delta 1010). I have a crappy old PCI card (I

think
16MB) that will work, but I'm wondering if it will impair my ability

to
record/playback audio via some kind of bandwidth bottleneck? I don't

use
this comp for anything else but audio and I definately DO NOT play

games on
general principle. What do you think? Thanks!

--

Jonny Durango

"Patrick was a saint. I ain't."

http://www.jdurango.com


In my audio PC with an ECS motherboard,
there were some minor issues with AGP being
initialized with some video cards.
I am using an older Trident PCI card with
no problems whatsoever.
I don't remember ever having a video card with
more than 16meg and never had any video 'bottleneck'.
I think a PCI card would be better than an
on-board video with shared RAM memory.
Make sure you enable bios to look for PCI
video and you should be OK.

good luck
rd

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"Jonny Durango" wrote ...
So I had to get rid of my fancy 128MB AGP video card
(long story) in my p4 3ghz DAW system (cubase, delta
1010). I have a crappy old PCI card (I think 16MB) that
will work, but I'm wondering if it will impair my ability
to record/playback audio via some kind of bandwidth
bottleneck? I don't use this comp for anything else but audio
and I definately DO NOT play games on general principle.
What do you think? Thanks!


I'd go for the oldest, lousiest, "bottleneck" video card that
would run on the system. Reason: the less time the computer
spends fooling around painting video, the more horsepower
you have for the primary objective. Same reason I would run
at the lowest resolution that supports what you are doing with
the computer.
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If you can configure the PCI card, great. Use that. It shouldn't have a
negative impact on your audio recording/playback/mixing abilities as long
as you aren't syncing to video. If it proves difficult to set up, I use an
AGP ATI Radeon 7000 64MB RAM with passive cooling (i.e. no fans) that does
everything I need it to do (including very nice DVD playback). You should
be able to pick up one of those for next to nothing (I got it for $30 over
a year ago).


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