[LAU] Intel I5 motherboards

[Patrick Shirkey]

On 01/15/2010 08:40 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>     My 5 year old AMD64 machine smoked yesterday so I'm looking to
> build something new. On interesting new processor is the Intel I5-661.
> I'm wondering whether very many folks are using Intel motherboard in
> Linux DAWs? I've not used one before for any reason so it's a new
> vendor to me. The model I read about in a test document was the
> DH55TC, but I'm partial to the DH55HC as I need more than 1 PCI slot:
>
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121396
>
>     Comments and ideas welcome.
>
>    



We've just got a couple for desktop use at the office and combined with 
a flash drive they are definitely fast.

No idea about the impact on audio though, sorry. Can have a look into it 
today if no one else has any advice.



Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd