On 07/14/07 01:47 pm I wrote: > Except for notebook computers and one ancient desktop that I bought > used, I haven't bought an off-the-shelf computer for 20 years, and I'm > not about to change my habits to enjoy my FLEX-5000 when it arrives. > > My current shack computer is a 1GHz PIII on an Asus motherboard (the > only brand I've bought for the last 15 years). It already has a > P4-compatible power supply of adequate capacity, a PCI-bus Firewire card > (Adaptec, IIRC -- for capturing video from a digital camcorder), and a > PCI-bus multi-serial card. I have a spare ATI X300 PCI-Express video > card that I could use. > > If I replace the mobo and CPU by an Asus M2N-E or M2N-SLI Deluxe (the > latter has Firewire on board but only one IDE connection) and an AMD AM2 > dual-core CPU rated at 5000 or more, and install 2GB of RAM, does > anybody know of any problems I might face with PowerSDR and the rig? OK, > I know already that I'll have to reinstall WinXP from scratch and > convince some person in India that I'm not trying to cheat Micro$oft, > but other than that...?
To answer my own question... Obviously I don't have the new rig yet, but the M2N-SLI Deluxe with AMD 64 X2 6000+ CPU "plays" the sample .WAV files using PowerSDR 1.9.1 beta with less than 5% CPU usage. This motherboard has Firewire built in but only one COM port, so I'll keep using my old multi-serial card. And I *didn't* have to reinstall WinXP totally from scratch: I did a "repair" install, then had to "reactivate" Windows (which I was able to do online without talking to someone in India) and reinstall 77 (!!!) security and other fixes. But at least I avoided having to reinstall all my software. Alan NV8A _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
