Joe Button wrote: > Hi. > > Can anyone recommend a motherboard for Linux / multimedia? Probably mostly > Ardour and + some softsynths. I have a P4 2.4Gb / Socket 478 I'd like to put > in it. > > As an aside, are dual mobos considered a good idea for realtime stuff these > days? Just asking out of interest, don't think I'm going to get one this time > around. if you can afford one, smp machines perform excellently for audio tasks, as most of them are multi-threaded and make full use of both cpus. the downsides are, they are still somewhat expensive, and you will have one extra fan and probably a noisier power supply. -- "I never use EQ, never, never, never. I previously used to use mic positioning but I've even given up on that too." - Jezar on http://www.audiomelody.com J?rn Nettingsmeier Kurf?rstenstr 49, 45138 Essen, Germany http://spunk.dnsalias.org (my server) http://www.linuxaudiodev.org (Linux Audio Developers)
