"My advice: Ditch the AMD platform for an Intel setup. I just did and found myself getting lower latencies instantly and is 10x more stable. Yes, the AMD system seemed to have 10% more performance with Sonar. But at the cost of PCI latency and stability? hardly a bargain. The Intel chipset architecture has features built-in that allows for better streaming cabability. Yes, I know, many of you out there have been successful with creating a solid AMD system but I'm just sharing my experience."

I have an AMD 3500+ 64-bit and NEo2 Platform that will outrun yours. I dare you to prove your 10X claim too. You can't. I am using a FF800 and it is working very smooth at 1.3ms latency. Intel is NOT more superior. It is just another preference. Most of us here did our homework and chose AMD for our needs. Some Chose intel for their needs. Most chose AMD...

Ummm. I was quoting someone else there..

Ah, Sorry. I didn't see the quote box.

No, I don't use a UAD-1. I almost went PCI-E. I didn't want to lose my GEForceFX5900 with 256M though. PCI-E is still young technology. I would wait a bit longer. What I have now is really smokin. The only thing I think I would improve in my setup is SATA drive in a RAID for backup purposes.

Sorry for the confusion..

Here is an update for th STAudio c-port. ESI have released the 8.4 driver. Because of recent developments there, it will probably be the last driver released for this card. I've included the comparison with the earlier 8.2rc5 driver

MSI Neo2 Platinum (939)
Athlon 64 +3500 (2200mhz)
1gig Corsair twinx 3200xl ram (dual channel) set 2325
Windows Pro
Sonar 3.1.1 PE
STAudio C-port with ESI drivers

buffers 64

8.2driver 8.4 driver

ms
46.4 25% 26%

23.2 27% 28%

11.6 30% 31%

5.8 39% 38%

2.9 50% 53%

1.3 53%* 78% *(can't be right)


At 96/24 and everything else above I can get 3ms with 82% load. I'll probably switch back since the only real 'advance' of the driver is the ability to route mme simuteneously with the WDM. Don't really need it and the old one was a smidge faster.

Hey Conley, saw you over on the Corsair page. How did the tweaks work out? I had similar issues with some twinx xl

Hey reset, was always an intel user 'til now. Very happy with the A-64 here. I've no instabilties.

(edit for clarity didn't work)

It will be fine the way you have it.

Dell Centrino Pentium 4 M 1.4 512mb ram Echo Indigo I/O
ASIO

64 Samples 1.5ms No Go
128 2.9ms 80-90%
256 5.8ms 63-80%
512 11.6ms 54-70%
1024 23.2ms 46-60%
2048 46.4ms 39-58%


Not bad for a notebook with all the bells and whistles that are in the file.
Will try on a Pentium 3 1ghz
Will try on Pentium 4 3.0E with 1 gig ram

Sony Viao TR2
1 Ghz Pentium M Centrino
512 G
40 g 4200 RPM
Sound Max internal Audio

WDM Driver
11ms 85%
20ms 75%
40ms 65%
80ms 57%

No there is no audio data.
This test file just sits still. That's all it does.

I can't help you with the other part. Someone who knows will drop by.

Steve

The results you are seeing are definitely not right. No single CPU system can run the test at 0.7ms. Try at all latencies and post the whole group of scores.

-S

When you use the Tascam, the audio engine isn't engaging (even if it indicates that it is). You can veryfy this pretty easily. SonarTest uses input monitoring in order to stress the system. Try to monitor a real signal through one of the tracks. If you can't hear signal and plugins in realtime, nothing is happening.

-S

P4 HT/ Prescott 3.20/2ghz PC3200 DDRam

46.4 25
23.2 27
11.6 32
5.8 41
2.9 60

feels good doesn't it?

Dell Dimension
P4 2.4
512 Mb
Maxtor 6L080L4 80Gb ATA 133 7200
Nvida Ge Force 4 Ti 4200
M Audio Firewire 410
XP Home SP1
Sonar 3.1.1

Hi guys
I'm not that tech minded but here are my sad results. I would appreciate any help. I disable the modem and Anti Virus/ Security when working with Sonar.

ASIO

2048 46.4msecs 38%
1024 23.2msecs 41-43%
512 11.6msecs 46-53%
256 5.8msecs 61-70%
128 2.9msecs No CPU
32 1.5msecs Are you kidding me!

Hi,

My results:

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum,
AMD 3500+ 90nm Winchester,
2GB RAM OCZ 3200 DDR 400 2,3,2,5
IDE 0 : Barracuda 120G = XP, Sonar, apps
IDE 1 : Barracuda 200G = live samples and audio backup,
SATA RAID0 : Barracuda 160G X 2 = live audio & samples library
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600 SE AGP Video
TI firewire PCI card
UAD-1 DSP PCI card
DVD-COMBO
DVD+/-RW
Floppy
XP Pro SP1

MOTU 896HD (firewire)

Roland XP60
MIA Strat

(not necessarily in that order)

ASIO
Buffer...Latency...CPU (max)

2048 ... 46.4 ... 25%
1024 ... 23.2 ... 27%
512 ... 11.6 ... 31%
256 ... 5.8 ... 38%
192 ... 4.4 ... 42%
128 ... 2.9 ... 52%
96 ... 2.2 ... 63%


--thndrsn

Hi,

did the Scott Reams SonarTest and the ADK SonarTest with this setup:

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
Athlon FX55 @200MHz x 13
2x 512MB OCZ4001024ELDCPER2-K Rev2 Platinum EL CL2 2-2-5
2x IBM IC35 80GB as PATA1 and PATA2
1x Maxtor Diamondline III 300GB 7B300S0 attached to SATA2
BIOS version: 1.8mod
1x RME HDSP Digiface
ASIO driver 2.9.0.1
WinXP Pro SP2 latest patches
Sonar PE 4.0.2

and got these results:

Latency || ScottReams-Sonartest || ADK-Sonartest
8192(186ms) || 20% || 56%
4096(93ms) || 21% || 58%
2048(46ms) || 22% || 62%
1024(23ms) || 23% || 68%
512(12ms) || 25% || 76%
256(6ms) || 29% || 89% critical
128(3ms) || 38% || dropout
64(1,5ms) || 53% || dropout

After a couple of minutes at 6ms with the ADK-SonarTest where the CPU load was jumping between 87 to 93% monitored with Sysinternals Process Explorer 9.01 I got a blue screen two times with the message claiming that Driver_Irql_Not_Less_Or_Equal and NDIS.SYS has caused an error at memory address yxz – system halted! The second time the error was so serious that WinXP was damaged in systemroot\system32\config\software that I had to reinstall an image. Actually this was the first time something like this happened with this and former systems. However I hadn’t used the ADK-SonarTest before.

You can say that again

feels good doesn't it.