First, please understand that what you have written is barely understandable to me, not because of any fault of your English, but because you assume a familiarity with computer information and jargon on my part that is greater than I have. Nevertheless, I think I may understand most of this.
I have experienced what I think is "audio packets being dropped' when the computer has been in use for a long time and Finale and GPO are working hard. It sounds like machine gun on/off, on/off sound. I have no idea what audio interface is in use here. It's simply what's built in to this early G5, single processor 1.8. What do you mean "FW"? Is that Firewire? I am simply using the audio output on the Mac.
If you will take a moment to translate what you have written, and offer specific advice that might be understandable to one whose computer understanding is at a couple of levels (at least) below yours, I will surely appreciate it.
Question: Will adding considerably more than the existing 1.5 MB of RAM help in keeping things from choking up, as they seem to be doing at the moment?
Thanks,
Chuck
On Mar 28, 2005, at 7:36 AM, A-NO-NE Music wrote:
Chuck Israels / 05.3.26 / 11:13 PM wrote:Chuck Israels
1920X1200 is the native resolution, so I think I'll be OK with the 9200
card. It seems to be listed at just under $100 - a fair enough price
to be able to rotate the monitor (seems to me). I think the local Mac
dealer will know, in any case, and if I buy it from those guys, they'll
take it back if it doesn't do the job.
Chuck,
What is your audio interface? If it is FW, I suggest you do an audio I/O
stress test. The current PCI-X G5 has a hardware bug on AMD PCI Tunnel
Chipset. AMD has no plan to fix it, and Apple has no control over it.
The possible outcome is that a few audio packets might be dropped when
both FW and PCI throughput gets heavy. This is highly reproducible when
you have audio I/O on both FW and PCI (I have MIOs on FW and PCI-424 on
PCI), but the general consensus is that one might want to be careful when
adding PCI to PCI-X G5.
--
- Hiro
Hiroaki Honshuku, A-NO-NE Music, Boston, MA
<http://a-no-ne.com> <http://anonemusic.com>
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