Bob's comments about his new computer prompted me to send this Email
that I wrote a few weeks ago and never sent. I should note that I have
been preaching "simple" AMD quad core computers since purchasing a $400
machine at Staples over six months ago that has been working flawlessly
for me.
I was attempting to be subtle and make others think. Being more direct,
the current crop of most PCs handle the job fine without resorting to
unnecessary tweaking and multiple operating system boot configurations
to get the job done for the typical Flex user. A few less CPU cycles
when the usage is already so low and perhaps lowering the DPCs from say
150 us to 50 us is not going to make a bit of real world difference.
What is under the hood is cheap and effective now a days. Gboost just
one of the easy means to prove it to yourself. The only real culprit
anymore is high DPCs, and what I mean by high is above 1 ms (I used that
intentionally since it reads better than a whopping 1000 us :^) There is
a reason that The Flex driver DPC report and DCLAT use that as a
breaking point for real time audio drop out issues. I don't like to see
people reading the hype and start chasing their tails, unless of course
they enjoy tweaking and that is part of their hobby.
My experience only relates to the 5000 and 3000. I believe the
latency issue with the 1500 is a horse of another color, but don't
really know.
73 Ross K9COX
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