narciruss
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Best motherboard for DAW's.
Hello!
I have a some problem with DPC latency on my Gigabite G/A EP35 DS3L.
My PCI-controller (ieee1394) does not work =(
(I have Texas Inst. controller ... )
I think this is problem with high latency on my m/b.
I want to buy ASUS m/b. (Asus P5K or Asus P5Q)
But i have not sure about ASUS ...
Please, Give me recomendation.
(p.s. - my Sound card - M-Audio Audiophile firewire)
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jcschild
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/26 09:56:12
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stay far away from asus and stick with gigabyte
fyi did you update your bios? turn off netwotking? etc to lower dpc?
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/26 13:29:15
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FastBikerBoy
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/26 13:53:59
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I've had many different boards and can't say there's much to pick and choose between them. I have an ASUS P5B at the 'mo and find it excellent. Makes overclocking very easy if that's you bag and very good at it too. I currently have a E6600 (2.4) over clocked to 3.0 all on a standard cooler. I've stress tested it many times and it's rock solid.
Whether you want to OC or not is irrelevant, you can't do what I've done on a flaky board.
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jcschild
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/26 14:16:37
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/26 15:06:04
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ORIGINAL: jcschild
Asus?
read this thread! 5 different system builders saying the same thing
http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=679250&page=4&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1&vc=1
You are judging all Asus boards by this one chipset (made by Intel BTW) mentioned in the post you linked to? There is a wide, wide variety fo Asus mobos, designed to suite a variety of needs. I have used many brands of boards, built many many computers and have rarely had problems with ASUS in general (although like everybody, they do occasionally have issues like the old AGP problem and Nvidia cards). For DAW work, Asus shines, as most of their non-budget boards use high quality voltage controllers, low noise components and solid PCB. Their BOISES are ultra tweakable in areas that actually count and are safe (redundant and crash recoverable). The BIOS can be adjusted from within Windows on the fly real time, so you can fine tune the DAW to run silky smooth. I will continue to rely on ASUS (always doing proper research of course) and continue to be happy delivering ultra fast, ultra stable machines that did not cost a fortune.
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FastBikerBoy
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/26 15:30:02
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jcschild
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/26 15:30:49
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you didint read the thread dude.
it goes back to p4 days up until today.
ASUS sucks!
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jcschild
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/26 15:32:53
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yeah yeah so you got 1 good one, your right you got lucky...
when you get 8 out of 10 bad in 1 box come back and post...
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FastBikerBoy
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/26 17:31:37
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yeah yeah so you got 1 good one, your right you got lucky...
when you get 8 out of 10 bad in 1 box come back and post...
Ah you see I don't only post the negative. I guess in the last 4 or 5 years I've built somewhere in the region of 30 to 40 bespoke computers, mainly for use in (non-music) industry but there's also been a fair collection of DAWs amongst them and as I said earlier used just about every make of Mobo there is. The only one I've ever had any trouble with was MSI. An 845 Ultra if I recall correctly although I used one in my last DAW successfully so I put that down to a one off. Amongst that there's been many ASUS boards and never had problems with any of them. I take them as I find them, not how I read about them.
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/26 21:39:43
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Well now that this has turned into an ASUS advertisement-debate, I would really like to know what the best motherboard for a DAW is because I don't think it's been made yet. Intel boards, ASUS boards, GIGAbite boards, all made audio and midi for audio a secondary addition not taylored to the flexibility of the many PCI, firewire, USB hook ups that run audio and midi for recording purposes. I submit that it's a reconfigurable crapshoot whatever you go with.
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kwgm
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/27 01:43:26
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yeah yeah so you got 1 good one, your right you got lucky...
when you get 8 out of 10 bad in 1 box come back and post...
Scott, Many people here really don't know what you do for a living, and we'll always have self proclaimed experts on the web. Just to keep it interesting, do you mind sharing with the group approximately how many mobos your company deals with in a month?
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/27 01:49:48
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I'm interested in this thread too...I had a Dell box that had the boot HD die and somehow take my backup external USB hard drive with it (  ). Anyway, I understand that Dell uses some non-standard components so I thought about getting a new power supply, motherboard, and HD and moving everything into an old ATX case I have sitting around. The motherboard decision is the only one that's confusing. All I want is a motherboard supporting an Intel Q6600 that can use the 2-3 GB of 667 MHz memory that's in the old box...Hopefully it's under $120-150 as well...
You can use me as your eSoundz referral (altima_boy_2001).
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FastBikerBoy
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/27 03:27:49
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ORIGINAL: jcschild
yeah yeah so you got 1 good one, your right you got lucky...
when you get 8 out of 10 bad in 1 box come back and post...
Scott,
Many people here really don't know what you do for a living, and we'll always have self proclaimed experts on the web.
Just to keep it interesting, do you mind sharing with the group approximately how many mobos your company deals with in a month?
Well, well that's interesting..... I may be a little more ready to accept an argument that says something like this... Q. What's the best motherboard for a DAW? A. Well I run a company that builds xxx (Insert your figure here) computers/DAWs a month and in that time we have lots of trouble with ASUS in fact x out of 10 are faulty. rather than (to paraphrase).... Q. What's the best motherboard for a DAW? A. ASUS are crap 'cos it says so on a forum. I tend to deal with facts rather than heresay and in my personal experience I have had almost no problems with any motherboards ASUS or otherwise. I have no allegiance with ASUS. I just want the OP to have a balanced view rather than that of someone with an axe to grind. Of course in answer to the OP, the nail has already been hit on the head - there isn't one. It's more dependent on features of the board rather than who put the bits together.
post edited by FastBikerBoy - 2009/01/27 03:33:32
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cryophonik
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/27 03:39:50
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All I want is a motherboard supporting an Intel Q6600 that can use the 2-3 GB of 667 MHz memory that's in the old box...Hopefully it's under $120-150 as well...
Here is the mobo that I just purchased a few weeks ago for a new build using the same processor: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128358 It fits your critieria and price range. My previous mobo was also a Gigabyte Technologies board and it is still working flawlessly after several years. I've never used or owned an Asus board, but I do research my components pretty thoroughly before purchasing, and the tech and user reviews pretty clearly indicated to me that Asus has a much higher rate of problems, failures, DOAs, etc. and pretty consistently get lower marks than the Gigabyte Technologies mobos. Please note that I'm not trying to imply that Asus sucks or anything, especially considering that I've never owned one, and I did notice that, among the people who had functioning mobos, they tended to rate them pretty highly.
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jcschild
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/27 10:37:13
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yeah yeah so you got 1 good one, your right you got lucky...
when you get 8 out of 10 bad in 1 box come back and post...
Scott,
Many people here really don't know what you do for a living, and we'll always have self proclaimed experts on the web.
Just to keep it interesting, do you mind sharing with the group approximately how many mobos your company deals with in a month?
good point i tend to post and run (short brief, blunt, and to the point) and forget not every one knows who i am. ( or used to my what appears to be gruffness) i go thru about 800 mobos a yr. (well working ones, not counting the bad ones) we build everything from budget systems to absurd high end. in otherwords cheap mobos and $600 server boards. we order most boards in 10 packs. when i say 8 out of 10 bad that means in 1 shipment... bad could be NO post right out of the box die on the bench in a day or 2 has odd issues. (too many to mention) my biggest one was the having to repaste all the heatsinks on the P5wDH. ran silly hot. basically in a nut shell thier quality went to crap! they used to be my first choice. now in all fairness i have seen this with many manufacturers over the yrs 1 yr its tyan the next asus etc etc
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/27 11:11:21
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All I want is a motherboard supporting an Intel Q6600 that can use the 2-3 GB of 667 MHz memory that's in the old box...Hopefully it's under $120-150 as well...
jcschild offered this board over at gearslutz in this thread for a budget minded board. I'm sure it would be worth checking out. And for that price, you could pick up a couple gigs of ram as well at the same time.
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jcschild
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/27 11:24:30
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/27 12:38:23
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going back to the original post.... The Gigabite G/A EP35 DS3L has been used by quite a few sucessfully for a DAW, including me. I have the F5 bios, very low DPC latency. What problems are you having with your FW board? It's always possible you have a bad board, but it's not the design thats an issue for that one. Im running a PCI firewire as well and it works flawlessly.
post edited by cityrat - 2009/01/27 12:43:02
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/28 12:57:14
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I must be lucky because both my P5W-DH and P5Q PCs are running fine. Scott is right though in saying that their quality control ain't what it used to be.
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/30 03:30:54
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yeah yeah so you got 1 good one, your right you got lucky...
when you get 8 out of 10 bad in 1 box come back and post...
Scott,
Many people here really don't know what you do for a living, and we'll always have self proclaimed experts on the web.
Just to keep it interesting, do you mind sharing with the group approximately how many mobos your company deals with in a month?
good point i tend to post and run (short brief, blunt, and to the point) and forget not every one knows who i am. ( or used to my what appears to be gruffness)
i go thru about 800 mobos a yr. (well working ones, not counting the bad ones)
we build everything from budget systems to absurd high end.
in otherwords cheap mobos and $600 server boards.
we order most boards in 10 packs.
when i say 8 out of 10 bad that means in 1 shipment...
bad could be
NO post right out of the box
die on the bench in a day or 2
has odd issues. (too many to mention)
my biggest one was the having to repaste all the heatsinks on the P5wDH. ran silly hot.
basically in a nut shell thier quality went to crap! they used to be my first choice.
now in all fairness i have seen this with many manufacturers over the yrs 1 yr its tyan the next asus etc etc
Thanks for your candor, Scott. Good luck in finding a new employee!
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/30 18:21:34
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ASUS Av8 Deluxe here...has worked like a tank since 2005 when I built my PC
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jcschild
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RE: Best motherboard for DAW's.
2009/01/30 18:44:36
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sold hundreds and hundreds of those never an issue beyond the norm
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