Honestly, all SOnar needs now is to become STABLE.

 
FWIW, Sonar X1 and Studio One are both running stable here... and no drop-outs.

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Honestly, all SOnar needs now is to become STABLE. Have been using Studio One for 30 days now. Not a single crash or audio engine dropout. Still keeping X1 just in case. But it keeped either crashing or having the audio engine drop out in every session (and my computer is a brand new beast). edit: whoa, wrong thread.

Ya,not sure what you mean,stable here on a new computer as well.

So is there a good recommendation for a motherboard that, for DAW purposes, effectively supports PCI -- especially with the Delta 1010 in mind?

I have always built my own PCs, for reasons of cost, performance and nerdiness, but the last one I built a few years ago has served me so well that I've not felt the need to upgrade it.  As a result I've lost touch with the very latest in the ever-changing world of motherboards, etc.

However, I fear that my system may be getting past it due to a few recent issues that have begun to occur (mostly when it's rebooting it sometimes refuses to do so -- boot that is, which I need to research more, but thought I'd explore new options too).

I really like my old Delta 1010s (I have two in my home studio) and frankly not in a position to afford upgrading those just yet.  But as I look into my boot issue I want to have a plan B to replace the motherboard/CPU if necessary.

Any recommendations on getting a motherboard that'll support PCI without causing me issues with the Delta1010s would be most welcome.

Not many people here use the Mackie firewire mixers, but my old 1620 kicks butt with Sonar Xi 64 bit.

And I love Mackie stuff. An actual external digital mixer is way out of my price range though.