[Elecraft] Elecraft Digest, Vol 69, Issue 53

[Larry Phipps]

My comment didn't address built-in (integrated motherboard) sound cards. 
I haven't had any trouble testing them, but don't actually use them 
except for desktop PC sounds and such.

73,
Larry N8LP



Wes Stewart wrote:
> 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.
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> Wes  N7WS
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> --- On Sun, 1/31/10, Larry Phipps <n8lp at telepostinc.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Larry N8LP
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>> 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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