hello,
Any idea what chipset or brand of "mainboard"? Maybe someone on the list has something similar.
for me it's a Via Apollo KT266 with a VT8233 Southbridge
the chipset is intel D845HV. it seems to run at 1,7 GHz and has quite enough RAM in this computers to allocate heaps and buffers...
operating system is windows2000
the card I was speaking about this mornig is an ethernet AngelCustodios card...
any idea, for now, about the in-built sound chip.
personally, I wouldn't expect good (or even decent) performance from an on-board sound chip - if I were to perform or produce with this machine I would most definitely throw in a quality sound card of course, at universities you have to make compromises...
indeed we must! :))) we have better computer and audio devices at home. i agree with you : i'd never try to produce or give a concert with this. anyway, i believe that to introduce students to PD and computer music, in general, is better this than nothing. if we do not make compromises, people will remain forever on the "trivialities" of manual sound editing and processing. and the worst thing is that they could feel themselves as knowing all that a computer can do in the sound domain! it's a pity that people could thing on computers only as a way to do faster the same things we did before without them.
if you knew about the difficulties i have to be understood by the direction staff when i speak on the necessity of using good sound material !! to have a minimal pro tools system has been a battle, but well, there is a while i'm falling in the off-topic! excuse me, please.
whishes and many thanks
jose manuel