What would you do in my situation? (nforce4 sli chipset)
Some of you may have seen (and contributed to) a recent thread of mine in which I asked for advice about sound cards (in particular, the suitability of the Delta 1010 for my purposes).
Well, I have finally decided after reading the advice of the helpful people on this forum that I am going to buy a more modern Firewire interface (perhaps Edirol) rather than a PCI-board based one. Mainly, because I am not keen on buying a seven year-old card (however good it is), but also because my budget has changed (gone up). 'Great' I think to myself, 'in no time, I'll have my recording setup up and running again!'
Now to the part which is making me very sad: :(
I have a quite new AMD-based system (3200+) which has an nforce4 sli chipset (w/ PCI-E and onboard TI Firewire). From what I have read, there are a lot of problems associated with this configuration, not helped by the fact that I have an Nvidia 6800 Ultra PCI-E bandwidth killer - yes, this was also meant to be a gaming system, but I didn't know then what I know now - that the newer PCI-E bus technology is problematic for audio recording. At least I had enough sense not to buy a Creative Audigy!
What would you do in my situation?
Obviously, I'm going to buy an interface and test it out - I'm not a power-user, so maybe my system will cope. But, assuming I have problems, what should I do? Buy a cheap low-end PCI-E video card and accept any performance hit? Resign myself to buying another (older) nforce3 / via chipset motherboard, which seems like a backward step? Hope for a motherboard firmware update? Wait for a newer PCI-E capable motherboard which works properly? This has really thrown a spanner in the works.
I think I'm in for some trouble as far as recording goes. Do you agree?
paulc.
post edited by paulc - 2005/06/11 02:42:21