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Video card for audio system?
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 |
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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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