[Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 69, Issue 53

[Wes Stewart]

I'm sure you're correct, but I went to the FW card because of problems with the built-in sound card.  Presumably that had the least overhead of all.

Wes  N7WS

--- On Sun, 1/31/10, Larry Phipps <n8lp at telepostinc.com> wrote:

> From: Larry Phipps <n8lp at telepostinc.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 69, Issue 53
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sunday, January 31, 2010, 6:56 AM
> I think you'll find that the FW card
> takes fewer resources than a USB card, at least that's what
> I've found as a general rule. On my system anyway, the PCI
> sound cards take the least resources, followed by FW,
> followed by USB. The same is generally true of serial ports.
> If you have a desktop PC, always lean towards PCI interfaces
> rather than USB if you have the slots to do so.
> 
> FWIW, I have 6 sound cards installed on a 2.8GHz P4 without
> problems, but the USB cards add about 50% to the CPU load
> when they're running.
> 
> Larry N8LP
> 
> 
> 
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:35:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: Wes Stewart <n7ws at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT] PCI Express sound card for
> digimodes
> To: w7gj at q.com
> Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net,
> G4ILOJulian <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com>
> Message-ID: <262124.96639.qm at web52303.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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> 
> Hi Lance,
> 
> Hmmm... I don't think so.  The computer has a 2.3 GHz
> Core2 Duo processor and 2 GB of RAM.  As I said, but
> not clearly enough, I gave up on the LP-Pan (for now anyway)
> so it wasn't running.  The only thing running was
> whichever RTTY/log software and Firefox, which I use for
> looking at Internet spots.  Since in some of these
> contests I was in an unassisted category, even that wasn't
> always open.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wes
> 
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