On Monday 28 April 2014 07:11:52 Clemens Ladisch did opine: > Len Ovens wrote: > > Memory: 8G, all one stick, which is slower than two 4G sticks... > > > > maybe not the best choice, but seems ok. > > I doubt that the difference is measurable, let alone noticeable. > In any case, this allows easier upgrading to 16 GB. :) Ye,s its measurable as it disallows the alternate chip access mode, cutting the bandwidth in and out of memory in half. > > > Disk: 2TB sata about 5 years old (as I recall) > > Nowadays, not using an SSD tends to be the bottleneck. > (But this is probably not the case for streaming audio.) > > > I chose this MB because it had three pci slots > > The PCIe/PCI bridges built into chipsets are reliable, but motherboards > that have a separate chip for this tend to use cheap crap. > > Your ASM1083 is infamous. Revision 1 was unusably buggy; rev. 3 mostly > works (except for virtualization). Which one do you have (lspci)? > > > ASUS was nice enough to list the irq layout of the pci(e) slots in the > > user guide. > > "Nice" isn't enough, it should be _correct_ (which was not the case for > my last Asus manual). > > Anyway, PCIe devices that support MSI use a completely separate > interrupt line. (USB3 ports, graphics, and built-in audio should be > harmless then.) > > You need to check /proc/interrupts to be sure. > > > Regards, > Clemens > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
