Building a PC!

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by Smag

I'd be inclined to go for NVidia as I have a Via chipset and when I got my Audiophile 2496 I was told there could be issues with the Via. As it happens - it works fine but apparently some users of Via chipsets experience problems when they get new soundcards.

This VA business is from the old VIA chipsets thaht actually were pieces of crap. I haven't heard any compatibility issues with the ne K8T chipsets...

Speaking of that issue cm0s mentioned, is it only a problem when you're runnin UAD1 in PCI-e slot in normal PCI mode (correct me if I'm wrong, but PCI-e slots can "eat" normal PCI devices...), or even if it's run in normal PCI slot with graphics in PCI-e? Is there any PCI-e related problems with PoCo Element?

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by Smag

Try to get a silent fan for your PC. If you're making tunes you want any external noise at a minimun. The fan on my PC sounds like a chainsaw every time I start it up and it seriously p****s me off.

-Antec One P160 case
-Acoustic foam coating for the case
-Be-quiet 450W power
-Zalman passive chipset north bridge cooler
-Zalman heatpipe cooling with shock absorbtion for hard drives
-Rubber foam floorpads for the case
-2x Noiseblocker 120x120 fans for the case
-Aerocool High Tower HT-101 + 80x80 Noiseblocker fan for processor
-In addition to that fan speed cotnrols in the front panel.

Should be totally silent case with good cooling (probably won't even notice is the computer running or not). For heavy CPU loads turn up the fan speeds and slow down the fans for the recording.

[Onkel Dunkel]

Originally Posted by Juho L

This is why getting a good motherboard is cruicial. Crappy motherboard surely will cause this kind of trouble. Don't spare in motherboard. Abit motherboards have worked very well.

It actually IS an Abit motherboard (KX333R) with built in highpoint RAID-controller

[Onkel Dunkel]

I read on a page (the link i posted earlier) that some RAID-controllers (especially built-in ones) eats up the PCI bandwith and therefore can cause sound-recording to make pops and cracks witch must have been the problem in my case since disabling it solved the problem. Can?t remember if the same thing goes for SATA. As for speed; i havent noticed any speed-decrease after going back to ATA133. Actually my computer start up quicker now since the RAID-controller isn?t using time to search for disks on the RAID anymore