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Originally Posted by guru-bug  I think most problems with Duende are based on (incompatible/bad/cheap whatever) firewire chipsets (for duende classic & mini) and cheap mainboards/chipsets (PCIe Duende). But the same happens with other products from TC/UA ... which all use the firewire & PCIe Bus a bit more to the limits than an external HDD or a Mouse/USB-Stick connected to the PC (or Mac).
A Studio PC for such critical applications should be based on high-end components starting from a good Mainboard and an Intel high-performance chipset. If anyone purchase an Office-PC at the supermarket or assembles his own with a 60$ mainboard, then he´ll run into big problems with such time and performance critical apps. Same for the power-supply. We all know how important a good power-supply for our $3k compressor and EQ is ... but buying computer components they buy a $30 power-supply and ask themself why there are some for $100-$150. You get what you pay for.
I´m in computer business with my own company, we do only service today, but believe me, most PCs you buy in any stores are simply CHEAP, they all use the cheapest worsest components to be a bit cheaper than other companys. We stopped selling hardware few years ago, because the market was dead.
For a stable system, the only solution is to invest a bit more (about 1500-2000$) and buy a special designed audio-pc ... or buying *good* components and self-assemble them.
Never buy a PC in a supermarket/ebay and also not in the computer-store arround your corner. Most of them are not better than ebay ... they all want to make money with cheap components and sell it to the unknowing end-users.
Greets,
Guru-Bug |
you wrote a good guide for beginners. i could add many things regarding cheap assembled systems and also audio-assembled systems, cause i´m into the business too...
i have 1 Mac Pro, 1 new Mac Nehalem machine and several highend pc machines...
only selected highend-components, several mainboards of the best brands, several high quality firewire-cards with all available fw-chips...
it´s not about cheap/worse components/chipsets, even my mothers little dell works on 44.1khz loaded fully on mono, but it doesn´t with a single stereo...
and it doesn´t work on 96k and especially not on pro tools. it´s a driver/duende issue, definitely.