Motherboard choices for media and vegas

dpfresh wrote on 7/19/2001, 9:54 AM

I am presently using an intel D815EEA2 Mobo with a P3 1GHz processor, 265 of PC133 ram, windows 98 SE with a motu 1224 and 2408. I am in the middle of a studio recording project and vegas is killing me with all the crashes. They happen sporadicly every time I open vegas, usually on arming tracks (2 or 3 at a time), setting record inputs, or in the middle of recording. Is it possible that an AMD Thunderbird and Soyo Mobo with DDR ram would provide a more stable foundation to work in. Here is a comparison of Intel vs Amd which includes tests for audio and media- Amd stomped Intel.
http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2001q2/athlon-1.4/index.x?pg=1

This is a fresh install of windows 98, I tried 2000 and had essentially the same problems.

-dpfresh

Comments

teomorell wrote on 7/19/2001, 2:08 PM

I have the same system configuration (MB and CPU). THe only difference is that I have 512 MB, but my system worked fine with 256 MB.
It is very stable with Windows 2000. Not only Vegas but every thing else I use.
Try to check the memory ot try another brand.

At my office we have the following:
An old SOYO with a 440BX chipset which works fine.
Several motherboards with SiS that are not reliable and fail a lot.
Three 815EEA that work great. They are computers to develop application with Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Visual J++. It is very rarelly to get a crash one these motherboards.

There is a thread on www.storagereview.com that talks about AMD vs. Intel and almost every one agrees about the stability of the Intel chipsets.

dpfresh wrote on 7/19/2001, 2:23 PM

Thanks for the info- I may have bum ram as I got it off ebay at 11.00 a pop. I guess that might be causing Vegas to crash all the time- I dunno. I love the program as it is very intuitive and easy to use.

dpfresh wrote on 7/20/2001, 9:42 AM

I went and put my last computers PC-100 ram in the computer and all crashes haves ceased. Very interesting. I would imagine this due to the lame ebay ram.