I'm sure it's somewhere on the CW site, but apparently Creamware didn't take too much effort to make it apparent to potential CW-customers. It certainly isn't in their magazine adds or their full-colour brochures.Thankfully the people who sold me my CW-products are extremely pro powerusers (I think they have about 100 DSPs in their 3 studios!!!) and so I've always gotten myself close-to-ideal systems through their advices. Very little trouble with CW, apart from the acknowledged bugs in the OS and devices. But without this knowledge I'd run into loads of troubles, I'm sure of that!
For those that can't get to http://www2.creamware.de/domino/webdbs/ ... enDocument :
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FAQ
What does CreamWare recommend as a suitable Mac or PC platform?
Solution
Before reading our recommendations understand that you should use the highest quality computers and components you can get to form the foundation of a system based on our equipment. Audio professionals use carefully selected amplifiers, speakers and other audio components in their six-figure studios - not equipment found at their local super discount mart! So it should be with your computer system.
Even though our products are equipped with ultra-fast signal processors to handle audio processing, routing, mixing and so on, the host system nevertheless plays a vital role in many operations (it provides the sample RAM, for example). The host system's PCI bus is very important. If the system PCI bus is loaded down with inefficient, wasteful or unnecessary acitivity, erratic behavior of our software can result. Improperly tuned or poorly designed chipsets or drivers are a frequent cause of poor PCI performance. Trying to transmit massive amounts of data over the PCI bus can be compared to trying to put an elephant through the eye of a needle - it simply isn't possible.
By carefully selecting an appropriate computer and associated peripheral components your system will be a stable and reliable host for our products.
Recommended PC components:
Mainboard: Use a board with a BX chipset (e.g. ASUS CUBX) or an i815 chipset (ASUS CUSL-II)*, Athlon: boards with AMD 761 chip set, e.g. ASUS A7M/266 or Gigabyte GA7-DXR
For Pentium4 systems we recommend mainboards with an intel 845D or intel 850chipset, e.g. the ASUS P4B series.
*note that boards using the i815 chipset no longer have any ISA slots, and will therefore not be appropriate if you want to use tripleDAT or CUTmaster.
*We do not recommend dual CPU systems, since these lead to a higher PCI load and thus reduce the performance of our products.
Processor: Intel Pentium III with a speed of 600MHz or faster.
Our software is not written explicitly for multiprocessing, so multiprocessing systems bring no benefit.
In theory the AMD Athlon is also recommendable, but it is found on many mainboards (VIA Chipset) that currently exhibit problems regarding the efficient use of the PCI bus.
RAM: 256KMB or more. If you want to do extensive sampling, 512MB is better.
Drive controller: EIDE (UDMA) or SCSI (Adaptec 2940 U2W).
Unlike in the past, today's EIDE systems provide excellent performance. In boards using the i815 chipset the PCI bus is no longer burdened by the EIDE controller. These systems are equal or superior to SCSI in terms of performance.
Hard drive(s): In general, IBM produces a variety of very good, reliable drives.
For hard disk recording applications, choose a drive that operates at 7200 or 10000 RPM.
Graphics board: AGP with 32MB video RAM (e.g. Matrox G400 or G450 - or the DH models for dual-screen operation).
CD recorder: Teac CD-R 58 or equivalent (for use with tripleDAT or CUTmaster).
Monitor: 17" screen or larger.
Our DSP products require a resolution of 1024 X 768 pixels. Select a monitor with a suitable refresh rate for flicker-free operation at that resolution.
Recommended MacIntosh system:
Model: G4 400MHz or faster
Our software is not written explicitly for multiprocessing, so multiprocessing systems bring no benefit. Dual CPU systems even increase the danger of PCI performance problems, since they put more load on the PCI bus.
The Mac Cube and iMAC models contain no PCI slots so they cannot be used for our DSP products.
RAM: 256KMB or more. If you want to do extensive sampling, 512MB is better.
The above recommendations imply no guarantee of performance.
