You are definitely running a bit more horsepower than my biggest box, which
has a Intel dual core processor (I forget the clock speed) and 1 GB of
RAM. The older box, the one that really needs a hardware synthesizer is
using a 1.7 Gig AMD Athelon with 512 MB, and it gets pretty pokey at
times. I've thought about replacing it with a new computer as even the low
end boxes will fly in comparison with it as long as I run Windows XP. But,
then, I've also thought about just ripping this one apart and putting more
RAM in, and doing a fresh install of the operating system and all drivers
on the premise that over five years, there is undoubtedly at least some
corruption in the operating system just from the number of things that have
been installed and uninstalled from the machine. I've seen a reload of the
OS completely change the personality of the machine.
73, de Lou K2LKK
At 09:39 PM 6/6/2007 -0400, you wrote:
>Most computers come with 1 gif of memory now if you look. Hyper threading
>technology, and what ever the AMD equivalent is, makes a huge difference. I
>have yet to slow this computer down. My radio desk computer I can slow down
>if I try hard, but this computer with 2 gigs of ram, XP SP2, a 3.0 gig
>processor with hyper threading technology, I have yet to find a way to slow
>this thing down. I have 2 sound cards in it, a tv tuner card, more equipment
>hooked up than any sane person would ever need, it's crazy.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 8:31 PM
>Subject: Re: RFI problem.
>
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I have to disagree with you, Colin. It depends upon what you are asking
> > the machine to do. I have seen situations where a fast processor could
> > still bog down with a software synthesizer provided that it was doing
> > something else fairly processor intensive such as CD ripping or sound
> > editing. I can't speak to how much of an issue two sound cards are
> > because
> > I've frankly never tried it, but I can think of plenty of circumstances
> > where the machine didn't have enough horsepower with Eloquence running,
> > but
> > as soon as I cut over to the DEC Express, it straightened right out. I'm
> > thinking that with all the stuff you have to run to keep a system secure,
> > that going up to 1 GB of memory wouldn't go amiss anymore. That has
> > become
> > the standard memory size at work now.
> >
> > I've wondered if this system would get snappier again if I backed it back
> > down to Windows XP SP1 which is what it was running when I bought the
> > machine. I've also thought about just nuking the drive and starting
> > over. Probably not a bad idea.
> >
> > That might get some of the snappiness back.
> >
> > 73, de Lou K2LKK
> >
> > At 10:14 PM 6/5/2007 -0600, you wrote:
> >>yes, perhaps 6 or 7 years ago, machine instability, crashing windows and
> >>over worked processors were an issue.
> >>I would step out on a limb and say that anything that has a modern
> >>processor, 2.8GB and up with 512 or more of ram shouldn't ever have a
> >>problem running two sound cards.
> >>I suppose that in the case of the old pentium 1 or 2 or 3 shack box, that
> >>stability and resources could be a problem, but certainly not generally
> >>speaking about modern systems.
> >>And booting from DOS? now your showing your age. And so am I for all that
> >>lol.
> >>73
> >>Colin, V A6BKX
> >>----- Original Message -----
> >>From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:02 PM
> >>Subject: Re: RFI problem.
> >>
> >>
> >> > Two sound cards can be a challenge to stability in some machines. It
> >> > is
> >> > still handy to have real speech at dos. You can dig yourself out of
> >>trouble
> >> > if windows won't boot. You can run talking dos and dos programs from
> >> > the
> >> > desktop. You can take the extra load off the processor if things get
> >>tight.
> >> >
> >> >
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> > Louis Kim Kline
> > A.R.S. K2LKK
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