getting 80 note polyphony on PII 350...question...

[KingIdiot]

will getting an 800 Mhz processer dbl my polyphony? or do I need to get a UDMA/100 drive as well?

[Chadwick]

You should get 160 poly on a PIII800.

From what I\'ve read UDMA 100 gives only a marginal speed improvement over the 66s.

Your drive speeds are important too.
7200 rpm & less than 9ms seek is good.

Polyphony also depends on what other software you\'re trying to run, and maybe the type of .gigs.

[KingIdiot]

good I was wondering if ATA/100 was a key ingeredient or not

[Chadwick]

Everyone who\'s doing OK seems to be on ATA66, but faster can\'t hurt can it?

[KingIdiot]

well....it can hurt the checkbook http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/smile.gif

[SteveMitchell]

Remember that the ATA100 stuff is a lot of marketing - it\'s only a signalling spec/interface. It doesn\'t mean that there are HD\'s out there capable of actually doing anywhere near 100MB/sec.

Respectfully,

Steve Mitchell
The Classical MIDI Resource (\"http://www.classicalmidiresource.com\")
The CMR Players (\"http://www.mp3.com/cmrplayers\")

[Haydn]

I just picked up a 30 GB Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 7200 RPM drive for $136! So it won\'t hurt the checkbook. I found a website through PriceWatch.com that was selling bundled ASUS CUSL2 motherboards with PIII 800 boxed processors (with heatsink, fan and 3 year warranty) for under $400. This motherboard has the latest Intel 815e chipset that supports PC133 SDRAM memory and Ultra ATA/100 drives. Be careful when getting motherboards with this chipset as many have integrated audio - yuk!!

[**DONOTDELETE**]

The Maxtor DiamondMax Plus line were previously ATA66, but Maxtor has started shipping them all with ATA100 now. It\'s a sticker marked clearly on the box, so you should not have any problems identifying them. Nice, fast, cheap drives.
http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=11008746&m=488&cat=511&scat=512 (\"http://www.bestbuy.com/detail.asp?e=11008746&m=488&cat=511&scat=512\")

The link info says ATA66, but the drive box says ATA100. Check at your local store.

Not the best price, but there\'s a lot of info here, and you can find it cheaper elsewhere.

BTW, the Diamondmax Plus drives run /very quite/ for those of you working in a one room studio.


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[KingIdiot]

holy crap I thought they were alot more than that. I\'ll check out Pricewatch. I may go the SCSI route to network future computers. Just so that I can get some of the 10,000 RPM drives with quick quick access times, I think it might be a prob for \"average\" drives being accessed by two/three different computers. Especially if I want to get 160 on both puters.

[Haydn]

I didn\'t think my new Maxtor drive was working when I first installed it. I could barely hear it with the computer cover open. This is one quiet drive!!

[ursatz]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Haydn:
I didn\'t think my new Maxtor drive was working when I first installed it. I could barely hear it with the computer cover open. This is one quiet drive!!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I had the same experience - it\'s amazingly quiet. But it also runs amazingly *hot*, at least mine does. It raised the temperature inside the box so much that I had to get a disk drive fan. End result: noisier than before! Now the computer is sitting in the closet. All those cables running under the closet door make for a mess, but at least I can hear my music now! http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/wink.gif