Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Soundcards
From: Mr. White (mrwhite_AT_arrakis.es)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 14:47:26 EEST
Benno Senoner wrote:
>
> On Sun, 06 Aug 2000, Mr. White wrote:
> > > I think you should better invest in a powerful CPU (high MHz) and
> > > enough RAM, rather than to buy a soundcard with onboard FXes and
> > > other fancy (but often useless) stuff.
> >
> > Mmmmh, then which CPU should I buy? Intel? AMD? Would SMP help?
> > Suppose I'd like to build a dedicated audio server... What would be a
> > great idea?
>
> I heard the AMD Duron is almost as fast as the Thunderbird / PIII at same
> clockspeed plus it is quite cheap.
> (It was called "Celeron killer" by Tom's Hardware ,
> see here http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q2/000619/index.html )
I'll have a look...
>
> But if money is not a problem for you you can buy the highest MHz PIII
> too.
> The FPU of the AMD Athlon family (K7, Duron / Thunderbird) is as fast
> if not faster than the PIII FPU, thus very suitable for audio processing.
Well, it is a problem, but I would not like to buy cheap hardware which
would then lead to buy better hardware.
>
> As for SMP: lowlatency-audio on SMP boxes is still a research area
> (eg having your audio sequencer running with 5msec latency which
> runs the audio plugins in parallel on all your CPUs),
> thus SMP would only help a bit when using multithreaded apps or
> using multiple apps at the same time.
>
> In my opinion, I'd invest into a faster uniprocessor box , rather than in a SMP
> box.
> This does not mean that I'm not interested in the "lowlatency on SMP" issue.
> I have an SMP box and plan to do some research on this area.
I had an SMP box, and I'd like to have another, but that's too
expensive.
>
> > The problem is that I do not know even where to start.
>
> start to do what ?
Start to research about soundcards...
> If you are a newbie , then I'd suggest you to read the Sound-HOWTO,
> and read some books about this topic.
>
> (Dave Philips will certainly be able enlist a few titiles, including his own
> one :-) )
Not so newbie...I've been reading for quite a while now, and would like
to experiment somethig that would be useful altogether.
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