What about A8V-XE (regular A8V isn't available anymore at my local store).

It uses K8T890 chipset..

Thing is it uses PCI-Express and I wonder if a PCI soundcard like Audiophile 2496 has problems with ALL PCI-E motherboards out there?!!

Please give me some advice cause I don't know what to buy and it's driving me nuts!!

Well, I have a A8N-SLI Nforce 4 mobo and I do not have problems with latency, de only problem i have, was the MIDI port of the on-board sound. Solved puting a new pci cheap sound card + asio4all, it works fine with Cubase, Ableton + Kontakt, Reaktor.
all faster, with A64 3000+, 1024DDR Kingston dualchannel.

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sorry, my mistake, you want use audiophile.

They also appear to be saying that disabling PCI-E peripherals like fast graphics cards fixes the problem. Is it so difficult to go into device manager and disable your graphics card before you go producing?

I have a Shuttle SN21G5 with an nforce 4 mobo and to be honest I dont really notice any difference over my old PC rig. But then I dont have a PCI-E graphics card in the slot so who knows...

Also you cant stick PCI cards into PCI-E slots. The PCI slot is much shorter and wouldnt work anyway even if you hammered it in, as the pins are a different size.

The problem has been fixed with driver and Bios updates according to http://www.adkproaudio.com/PCI-E.cfm

Nuendo 3 (whatever that is, never used it) still takes a 10% performance hit the article says. No mention of fruity loops, but I suppose if Cubase works fine, then FL will. I'd sure like to hear from the people here that use Fruity Loops with Nforce 4 mobos.

I don't have a link, but I viewed a forum thread with people saying the Bios and driver updates fixed the latency issues they were having with Nforce 4. I'm starting to think it's safe now to use Nforce 4 for production. I'm currently shopping around for upgrades as well.

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Hi,

Aside from the setup you use, could you please mention how low latency you can get and which stuff you normally run etc..?!

Aside from NForce4, any other chipsets that support PCI-Express that anybody here is using?!

Thanks alot for all helpful replies!!

you could get an nforce3, or wait like a month until nforce5's are readily avialable if you are really that worried about nforce4, or you could get an intel chipset.

This is what I am considering at the moment:
https://secure.newegg.com/NewVersio....asp?ID=3347343

but it will inevitably be changed around daily until the time comes that I actually buy it

uhhhh. with latency, I start at like 64 samples (which is pretty much 0 ms) but as soon as I load a big instrument or bring out an instance of SIR I have to increase the latency. When I am pushing 100% CPU load, memory usage is high and the DMA buffer is full up, I invariably end up on 2048 samples on the ASIO buffer (max buffer length on the Delta 1010) which is equivilant to 46 ms at 44.1khz. At 96 khz its about half that, but it literally rapes your CPU.

Either way, I never seem to just pick a buffer size and leave it that way. If I am not performing anything, I tend to just whack the ASIO buffer up to full so I dont have to worry about glitches. If I am performing I will typically record them in a separate project with no effects so I can get 0 ms latency. Then in some projects when I'm improvising stuff in between I just keep upping it, as the pops and glitches start to occur.

It was the same story with my old P4 rig. Having never really produced anything on any other computer, I dont really know if thats normal or rubbish or whatever. I do know that I am used to working like this so its not a problem for me.

if you wait like a month you will be able to pick up a x2 3800 for like 160 bucks... If you were to get something now i would recomend one of the newer intel boards with conroe support as conroe will destroy pretty much any chip out. The 500dollar conroe will out do the 1200 amd fx62.

If i was building a music comp it would look something like this

Intel 975dbx bad axxe motherboard(fact is intel boards are rock solid)

Intel pentium d 930

4gb ddt2 800

and either a radeon x1600 silent or 7600gt silent. Then load it up with 2 250gb hard drives and a silent PSU.

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