[linux-audio-user] moterhboard and sound card advise

[Veronica Merryfield]

Hi

I am planing on putting together a rack unit to use as an effects processor.

Does anyone, and I am sure you do, have any views on motherboards and
soundcards for this. For a sound card I was thinking of creative audigy2 or
is this over kill? I need duplex and midi in at a minimum. I have no idea on
whats good and whats not on motherboards and the more I search, the worse it
seems to get - sigh.

As this machine is going to spend most of it's time doing DSP, I figured
more and high speed RAM is good and hence a faster FSB which I think means a
faster processor as well, specially at 400Mhz for the FSB but is it worth
it? Does it make a difference?

Any comments would be much appreciated.

Thanks
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Veronica Merryfield, somewhere in Cambridgeshire, UK