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Original Message Date: 11-Feb-02 @ 12:52 PM - disk performance

bster

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whilst running 4 stereo and 2 mono tracks in cubase VST 5.1 the performance panel shows the 'disk' is maxing out resulting in stuttering tracks.
my pc is 1.5 pentium4, 60 gig hard drive (partitioned) and 512 SDRAM, should this system be capable of more.
also my virtual memory is set at max and min 600 (600 what?)should i increase this or specify that windows manages virtual memory, will it make a difference?

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Message 11/15 19-Feb-02 @ 02:56 AM - RE: disk performance

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ok- the 2 messages I posted just above this one may have come across kinda confussing... just go to the one above...hehehe

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Message 12/15 19-Feb-02 @ 01:53 PM Edit: 19-Feb-02 | 01:58 PM - RE: disk performance

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that is WELL out of date tho remember, and for one thing i wouldnt recommend ANY of the cards on that page 'Dans hardware' for example which are mostly old & useless apart from a few listed such as the rme.

also for example it says stuff like:

"Unless you have a Pentium Pro you should have no less then 512k L2 cache or your VST performance will suffer heavily."

well that's rubbish cos it suggests a pentium pro is 'better' or prefeable due to it's larger second level cache - besides being 4 years out of date, actualy a pentium pro performs WORSE than a non-pro chip of the same speed cos PRO chips did NOT have the MMX extentions - i've tested this with two identical boxes and the non mmx 'pro' chip delivers zip compared to the same chip with mmx, despite the pro chip was running a fast u/w scsi drive and the non-pro was running an old ata33 eide drive system -

also it says pentium is the one and do NOT use amd etc - but that was written back in the old k6 days... He's recommending a Pentium 166MHz !! - mmx wasn't even invented then etc etc...

Also, the page 'Adjusting your timing for a accuracy of less then 1ms' - is also redundant now... as is the ram page. - but some of the page: 'Windows 95/98 performance tips' is relevent

so just watch out that what you read/do is relevent today.

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Message 13/15 19-Feb-02 @ 11:11 PM - RE: disk performance

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Good lookin. I just saw that it talked about thing such as DMA and other various settings one could make...--> 'Windows 95/98 performance tips'

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Message 14/15 19-Feb-02 @ 11:36 PM - RE: disk performance

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you know we have a pc faq/tips here in pcware section?.. it's filling up bit by bit and there is articles too on vcache/vmemory etc

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Message 15/15 24-Feb-02 @ 12:25 PM - RE: disk performance

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been off-line for couple of weeks so i thought i'd pop in to say thanks.

b'ster

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