On December 14, 2017 10:51:23 AM HST, Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Dec 2017, Will Godfrey wrote: > > > I'm thinking of getting a new 'pooter for music, and also thinking > of making > > it one of the new Ryzen ones. I don't think there is much point in > going for > > more than quad core. The 1500X looks like a good bet 3.5 to 3.7G, > and not > > overly expensive. > > My choice is i5 with 4 cores no hyperthread... no video problems... > but > then I don't do video editing or games. Video viewing has been just > fine. My laptop (2.4Ghz, 4 core 8 HT) gives me more throughput than the 2.8Ghz, 4 core no HT AMD Phenom 2 in my desktop. I've tried some i5 systems, they seem slow to me. I've had no issues with xruns and hyperthreading on my laptop. Since I do large panoramas on the laptop, I need the higher core/HT counts. I might move the desktop to an 8 core/16HT Ryzen sometime. Fits budget better than Intel now. > > On (say) an asus motherboard with on-board radeon graphics. I'm not > really > > I went with asus as well. There were about 20 MB that would fit the > CPU > choice. I wanted maximum pci slots (ice1712 and AudipPCI card for > MIDI) > and was able to find a few with 3 pci slots. I chose midrange, high > enough > to take extra memory and have fast sata, but leave out as many bells > and > whistles as I could because those just clog up ones irqs. This one was > > able to do either old or new style bios and allows turning boost > and/or > onboard audio off. I like the Asus boards, too. The BIOS in my wife's laptop is marvelously configurable! > > The one think I've no idea about is the sound card. I've got a > positively > > ancient 2496 that survived 3 PCs so far, but I think it's time for > an upgrade. > > Anyone any ideas about a well supported PCI-e one· It would be nice > to have > > balanced IO for a start! With a modern motherboard and USB3.1/USB-C, I'd go with an external USB card. Also, there'd be the option to use Apple's Firewire to USB-C cable to hook a Firewire device in. But with a desktop, you could just add a Firewire PCIe adaptor, yes? > As an almost direct replacement for the 2496 my first thought was the > Juli@ XTe which has balanced io. > http://www.esi-audio.com/products/juliaxte/ > However, it is no longer made, ESI now sells the MAYA44 eX. This does > not > have balanced io, but rather 1/4in stereo. Also, Juli@ says there are > ALSA drivers, but the maya does not. > > From there you go to RME, AudioScience, Lynx and digigram. So far as I > > know, AudioScience has full Linux compatability (including programmers > > API), Digigram has ALSA drivers for some of their devices but not all, > > Lynx might be none and RME Linux support seems to have gone downhill. > However, I would suggest asking on the rivendell list/forum/whatever > for > more info. (They suggest AudioScience right off the top) > > Personally, I think when I replace my D66 (probably when I can't get a > MB > with PCI) I have been thinking of the AudioScience PCIe cards as one > of > the possibilities. (in the USB world... probably MOTU AVB with the > thought > of figuring out AVB on Linux) > > Personally, I have not needed more than the 6 inputs I have... in fact > I > don't think I have even used more than 2 and most often use 1. So > having > room for a drumset and needing more inputs may be another reason to > upgrade. > > -- > Len Ovens > www.ovenwerks.net -- David W. Jones gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community http://dancingtreefrog.com Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
