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Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Michael Tondee <mat...@netcommander.com>wrote: > Thanks for these post. All of this sounds very encouraging to me as I plan > on using my HP AMD duo core when I get my Flex 5K. As I've stated before, I > inherited it from my XYL when she got a new Dell from Best Buy. I've added > an Nvidia based dual output video card with 1 GB of DDR3 memory and Windows > 7 32 bit OS. I plan on using the onboard firewire which is also a VIA > chipset. The flex firewire driver reports no issues with it so we shall see. > I do have an extra regular PCI slot available should I need to add a > firewire card. The only thing I've found to dislike about this PC so far is > the placement of the PCI express slots. The PCI X 1 slot is right next to > the PCI X 16 slot so that when I put in my new video card with the large fan > and shroud it blocked all access to the PCI X 1 slot. I cannot recall the > manufacturer of the mobo but I know it's not Foxcomm. Hopefully I will have > no issues. Now if the ship confirmation on the 5K would just get here. The > target date I was told was next Wednesday so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. > BTW, I use AVG Free antivirus and Spybot Search and Dest5roy for adware > protection. Are there any known conflict issues with these programs? > Tnx, > Michael, W4HIJ > > On 4/10/2010 10:35 AM, Neal Campbell wrote: > >> Just to reiterate, an AMD-based system has an order of magnitude chance of >> success than an Intel-based system. A simply-configured motherboard has >> less >> competition for IRQs. >> >> You mentioned Foxcomm as the mobo manufacturer. Foxcomm probably makes a >> large percentage of the of systems out in the world, just as a supplier. >> For >> instance, they make many of Apple's motherboards (in both of my Mac Pro's >> at >> least they did). >> >> 73 >> Neal Campbell >> Abroham Neal Software >> www.abrohamnealsoftware.com >> (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER >> >> Amateur Radio: K3NC >> Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ >> DXBase bug reports: email to ca...@dxbase.fogbugz.com >> Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ >> >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Michael Walker<va...@portcredit.net >> >wrote: >> >> >> >>> I was wanting to replace my old xp box and move to a new quad core. >>> >>> The Acer M5811 was a great deal with the Intel I5-650 and on an Intel >>> motherboard (I never could find the board number). However, as most of >>> you >>> know I was getting not so random crashes if the radio was powered up and >>> without any Flex software running. Acer technical support essentially >>> said >>> that they warranty the firewire port unless you plug something into it. >>> Go >>> figure. They wanted $2/min to do additional debugging. >>> >>> I'm sure we could have solved the Acer problem if we could get W7 to >>> actually produce a dump when it crashed. Even adding another firewire >>> card >>> did not help as you could not turn off the onboard firewire port in the >>> bios. >>> >>> After 3 weeks of testing, I took it back to Best Buy for a full refund >>> (well past their return date--but they aren't that fussed which is great >>> customer service). It helped when I complained about Acer's tech >>> support. >>> >>> Next purchase was an HP p6302f with the AMD Athlon X4 Quad at 2.6ghz/core >>> on some no name motherboard (Foxxconn). It came with 6G or DDR3 Ram. >>> The >>> bench marks I ran were pretty good, except for the video, so I added an >>> ATI >>> hd2850 video card (1G ram). That took care of the video problems. I'm >>> running with 2 monitors on the box. This is on a W7 x64 box. Even with >>> the >>> 1G video card added, it was still cheaper than the Acer M5811. >>> >>> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=uk&product=4120648&lang=en >>> < >>> >>> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?lc=en&dlc=en&cc=uk&product=4120648&lang=en >>> >>> >>>> >>>> >>> Based on Neal's recommendations, he said to keep the board simple with >>> not >>> a lot of on board add-ons. This seemed to fit the bill and was on sale >>> to >>> boot! >>> >>> It has an onboard VIA firewire card which I was willing to start with. >>> >>> I've been pleased to report that it works great. My antivirus is >>> Microsoft >>> Security Essentials (which is free). I'm confident to use that AV as the >>> Security gurus (outside of Microsoft) actually like it. It has not >>> seemed >>> to add any load and my latency numbers are really low. >>> >>> DDUtil is running fine and I am now using HRDs DM780 for my digital work. >>> I would like to thank Tim, Dudley and Neal for all their support and >>> help. >>> Hopefully I will get to meet some of you in Dayton. I'm looking forward >>> to >>> going as I haven't been since I left Atlantic Ham Radio to move on to >>> another career back in 1997. >>> >>> My hats off to Flex radio who truly understands what Customer Support is. >>> many 73... Mike VA3MW >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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://kc.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://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
