I spent a lot of time looking around for information on DPC's. I found interesting information at the Roland Cakewalk forums (www.cakewalk.com).
Someone asked what BIOS I was using on my EX38-DQ6 board. It is a beta BIOS number F3B and it is not listed on the Gigabyte download website. It has to be requested by Email. Someone asked if I could recommend a motherboard. I don't think I'll be using any more Gigabyte boards. So far the Abit IX38 board is working well with Vista for photo and video editing. I have used ASUS boards before with good success. I hear that many Intel boards are good. At this point I don't feel comfortable recommending a specific board. I do believe that research relating to DPCs on motherboards is very important, prior to purchase. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Dale Boresz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 6:12 PM To: "Mark Ericksen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Time for an upgrade! > Hello Mark, > > Thanks for sharing this interesting information. Do you have a good > resource for motherboard reviews that address effectiveness of DPC > handling? > > 73, Dale > WA8SRA > > > > Mark Ericksen wrote: >> I built two machines recently, one for my ham radio work, which includes >> connection to my Flex 5000, and one for photo and video editing (I take a >> lot of pictures and videos of my granddaughter). In both machines I >> used the Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU. My photo and video machine runs >> Vista with 4GB of memory installed on an Abit IX38 motherboard, and my >> ham radio machine runs Windows XP with 2 GB of Memory installed on a >> Gigabyte EX38-DQ6. I have been building machines for years, but I >> learned a few things from this effort that I am willing to share. >> >> * Before selecting a motherboard do some research on the Internet paying >> close attention to how well a motherboard performs handling Deferred >> Procedure Calls. My Gigabyte board has issues with DPC's as verified by >> my Internet research that occurred after I purchased the board, >> unfortunately. If the motherboard has poor performance handling DPC's >> then it is possible that PowerSDR may freeze during operation. My >> Gigabyte motherboard is currently running a beta BIOS to correct its DPC >> issues. I had issues with PowerSDR freezing prior to this update. >> >> * Vista may work with PowerSDR but I have found that in general Windows >> XP does a better job in handling DPC's and therefore working with >> PowerSDR. I tried using both Vista and XP with PowerSDR and I got better >> results with XP. >> >> * Use good quality computer cables on all connections with ferrite >> beads. >> >> * Use a good quality power supply. >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Jim Menefee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 5:04 PM >> To: <flexradio@flex-radio.biz> >> Subject: [Flexradio] Time for an upgrade! >> >> >>> Time to change the CPU and Mother Board. I have both a SRD 1000 and >>> 5000. I >>> run a lot of stuff in the background for biz (CS4-Dreamweaver, etc) and >>> use >>> 4 monitors. I have been eyeing the 6600 CPU's for $189.00 from Tiger >>> Direct. I would love to hear from others if this is the way to go and a >>> suggestion of a good Mother Board to go with it. Also, what is the SDR >>> software designed or best suited for - Duel - Quad, etc? >>> -- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >>> FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >>> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >>> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >>> Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: >>> http://www.flex-radio.com/ >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> FlexRadio Systems Mailing List >> FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz >> http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ >> Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: >> http://www.flex-radio.com/ >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
