Who's running Dual Athlons MP's

[cd53]

Any problems, hows latencey, how quiet can you get these. I'm sure you can get lots of tracks and plugins. Are they harder to tweak? If I go this route I'm going to use Sonar XL, Win XP pro, and the Aardvark Q 10. And all the updated hardware to run a screaming DAW. Do you see any problems with this?

[maggotcontrol]

Should run great. Asus and Tyan makes em.
www.studiokobari.com (http://www.studiokobari.com)

[theengine]

I have a dual 2200+ MP system. Tyan s2462 on bios 2.13. 1 gig ecc, 1 36 gig and 1 73 gig LVD scsi IBMs. Delta 66 with omni studio, Pinnacle Sys DV500, Hauppauge Wincast TV, ATI 9500 (SoftFireGL). External I have the Oxygen 8 and midiman 4x4. I am just starting out again in music. I spent years with my fostex 160 then faded away from playing and got into 3d graphics. As far as I can tell, the only issues I have are with the midiman Oxygen 8 drivers and XP. I have gotten that "process has locked pages" on both my Athlon and my P4 (XPC SB51G) systems. I plan on buying a higher quality interface such as a Q10 or Delta 1010, but I'm still reading. As far as working with the Athlon, its butter smooth and very stable. The new BIOS supports 2600+ MPs, which compared to a 3.06HT P4 is still a deal and beats the pants off it in software that supports dual CPU.

[nakedjackson]

you probably won't need dual mp's, They're nice and fast, but only 30% increase over single processors. Alot of people say it's more trouble than its worth. Athlon should be making xp3000+ and xp3300+ both with barton cores. MMMMMMM.....

[knowdoubt]

Originally posted by nakedjackson:
you probably won't need dual mp's, They're nice and fast, but only 30% increase over single processors. Alot of people say it's more trouble than its worth. Athlon should be making xp3000+ and xp3300+ both with barton cores. MMMMMMM.....

And that 30% increase is only in applications that make use of the dual processors. The rest of the time your only getting the speed of a single one of them & the other one is dead weight or (dead heat). In other words, for any task that doesn't make use of duals, any dual processor system that's built with less than the highest speed processors available will be slower than an equivalent single processor system built with the fastest processor available.

[Bops2000]

i HEARD and kinda feel that
dual processors would be good for a server/ application approach ,
Granted I ain't that smart on system apps,
but it may be cool if you could run an app dedicated on one cpu, and use the other as the slave, in daw, but again I aint dat smart, does any program have this capability?

[Royal Tee]

Just Built Mine
2x AMD MP2400+
2x 1GB pc2100 DDR
2x WD2000JB
TYAN2466N-4M
Antec TruePower 550W
Gainward GF4 Ti4600
Vantec VA4-C7040 HeatSinks
MOTU 2408 MK3

AFA Dual and 30% goes Sure thats for processing but In a DAW when the all Important Multi-Tasking comes up that's when you see it at work!
Playing audio while WAV Editing and reading the .PDF and Downloading a program while your e-mail and AIM are open.Not that I do all of this http://www.audioforums.com/forums/smile.gif
oh BTW.....The BARTONs will ROCK!

[xxkingxx]

I almost went that way. However there aren't enough boards with the sweetness and as everyone else has mentioned the performance.

Why not just get the top end XP chip and the best board and memory for your needs.

Also last I recall the board may do it but AMD doesn't support it. So why risk the CHIP$.

I mean with the extra money spent on the other chip you could just bump into a higher end pentium chip, which is a better numbers cruncher anyway. The boost of performance is a hairline of a difference in relation to cost.

I mean being ablee to do 10 different things at once is cool but is it what you do all the time and anyway with the right board, memory and chip you can still do 10 things at once and have one chip and not overwork it. If it is going to be purely for audio is being able to surf the net and do databases in Access and spreadsheets in Excel all at once really all that important?

Personally I wouldn't put anything but audio/video stuff into the computer so AIM and e-mail don'e have a chance. But i do read my PDF's !!! http://www.audioforums.com/forums/smile.gif

[jdier]

cd53,

How did your project go? Did you ever build the machine?

[tripnek]

Well, here is my story. Grab a beer or some popcorn this might be a while. I have an ASUS A7n266E with a single 1800+ (1.53ghz) processor and three M-Audio Delta 1010 sound cards. I run Steinberg Nuendo on this machine and every thing works fine until final mixdown. When I get all the plugins I need loaded in some of the more extensive projects I work on, this machine just won't handle it. It gets jittery, has drop outs, ect... A genaral pain in the ass. So I hear all these people on forums saying how much better the P4 sytems are. Well, my brother just built a P4 2.53ghz machine with an ASUS board. So I figured I would test it out and see how much better the performance was. He brought it over and we gutted my machine and put the RAM, Video Card, Sound Cards, and Data Drives in his P4 and began the experiment. It didn't take long to see the P4 couldn't even handle what my AMD could. This came as somewhat of a shock, especially to my brother who just paid mucho $$$$$ for the Pentium 4. The songs my computer was jittery on wouldn't even play on the P4, and songs that played just fine on the AMD gave the P4 a hard time. We did every thing we could think of to make the playing field even including the same OS tweeks and Even went so far as to use the same Power supply. The results where the same. We messed with it all night and some the next day and the P4 just couldn't keep up. Well, even though I didn't have a bigger AMD to test such as a 3200+, the experiment still brought me to the conclusion that what I needed was a Dual AMD machine. So I bought a TYAN MPX S2466N-4M with Dual 2000+ MPs. I put the machine together but had troble getting my Video card to work. I had to flash the BIOS to the latest version for it to work at all. But after that it worked. And Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow this baby has some mondo processing power. Runs the songs with 30-40 hardcore plugins like they aren't even there. No jittery mouse or Audio problems at all. Unfortunatly the system is plagued with funky errors and lock ups. Nuendo keeps saying it has to close and all sorts or strange problems. I suspect it may still be a compatibility issue with the video card, so I went to the Tyan site and looked at there recomended Video cards and RAM for this board and downloaded the latest chipset drivers. I got 1 gb registered Corsair RAM and A matrox G450. Unfortunatly the G450 is a dud. So I am now waiting on a replacement to come. The system still has problems with the new RAM so I am hoping the new Video card will do the trick. Unfortunatly I have this sinking feeling that it will not. M-Audio says they don't know of any "Known" issues with this board but they have not tested it. If the new video card doesn't work, my next step will be to get an ASUS A7M266D mother board. I've had good luck with ASUS in the past but with this board it means giving up a PCI slot and Onboard LAN which sucks. Well that's where I'm at. If anyone out there has any good advise I'd be greatful. It would be great to find anyone who has used the Dual AMD chipset ( AMD MPX 760 ) successfully with the M-Audio Delta 1010.

Thanks
Glenn

[Stereo]

I am using a dual AMD MP sytem with a Tyan s2462ung. Also I am using Aardvark Pro Q10. It works great. Let me tell you I love that 30 or 40% increase that my system give in cubase sx. I can run more tracks and plugins and not to mention the vsti. I am using scsi hard drives since my board provided. Check it out. Also that AMD came out with a new cpu I don't know how good is it, but the mp is nice. visit www.2cpu.com (http://www.2cpu.com)

[tripnek]

I switched to the ASUS board and solved all my problems. System runs perfect.