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To: LTBH who wrote (411)	3/30/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (1) of 14778

Motherboards.....Sound cards....RAID >>Most recent mobos score within a few tenths of each other on bench marks, so the primary selection criteria should be on stability, quality and features. << Do you have any favorites? Welcome to SI and to the thread. I did not find your post "wordy" at all. Lots of good info. The German magazine is interesting reading. >>Check out the Home Studio Pro 64. Major consideration is that it has a DSP onboard that offloads all that processing from the CPU. << Sound cards have a reputation for being resource hogs. Would this full featured sound card use more resources than a low end card? I would like to design a system with a minimum of "hangs" :( The IDE Promise RAID merits some investigation. (when Mitch Blevins suggested it #reply-3238245 I did not have a clue what it was, but have since done some investigation into SCSI RAID). If one is into peripherals (scanners, CDR, CDWR, MO) you will need a SCSI host adapter in addition to the Promise card. This would require two PCI slots instead of one. You indicate a ~25% increase in harddrive performance with IDE RAID. I have been trying to get a handle on harddrive performance with RAID. One source indicated ~100% increase in performance with SCSI RAID. Is this consistent with your understanding? Regards Zeuspaul

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