ASUS boards for Digital Recording

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I am currently researching hardware for a professional home recording
system. I have run across some disturbing rumors regarding the reliabiltiy
of ASUS boards! This kind of shocked me as I thought they were the best in
the the motherboard world.
The board I was looking at was the P4P800 Deluxe and I plan to use SATA
Drives with a Roland SI-24 controller and sound card.

Does anyone have input on this board and or systems for my stated purpose?

Thanksk,
Scott
 
For what is worth, here is my very recent experience:

I do both professional video editing and audio production on a on a PC
environment. A very reliable Pentium III based system.

Recently I decided to Update my system so I ordered:
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe
1 GB 3200 Corsair matched memory modules
Pentium 4 3.2 GHz
2 80GB Hardrives.

I set up the system only to find it would reboot when I transfered 4Gb worth
of files across the disks. The failure was defintelly traced to some anomaly
within the ATA100 hard disk adapter. After trying several harddrives to make
sure they drives where not the problem, we installed the two harddrives on
the second IDE adapter (promise raid). System seemed to operated alright (at
least when transfering files).

Yet while we were running our Premiere Pro application the system would
randomly reboot. Keep in mind that Video Editing applications as well as
recording application tax your harddrive subsystem heavily. At this point we
called in the people that sold us the mother board.

The distribuitor offered to replace the ASUS board immediatly. Lets see if
that solves the problem otherwise I'll have to move to a geniune Intel
motherboard. They may not be the fastest or cheapest around, yet they do
tend to be the most stable.

As you well know, when you are using a computer seriously you cannot just
"deal" with the situation.

So far we are not impressed with ASUS. That said we are willing to give it
one more chance.

--robert
 
s.smith said:
I am currently researching hardware for a professional home recording
system. I have run across some disturbing rumors regarding the reliabiltiy
of ASUS boards! This kind of shocked me as I thought they were the best in
the the motherboard world.
The board I was looking at was the P4P800 Deluxe and I plan to use SATA
Drives with a Roland SI-24 controller and sound card.
Does anyone have input on this board and or systems for my stated purpose?
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Where did you see those rumors? We are a dealer and have found
ASUS boards to be some of the most reliable.

For digital recording, you may want to consider something with the Intel 875
chipset
such as the ASUS P4C800E-DX.

Feel free to contact us with more questions.
 
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