[Steve Rosenthal]

Unfortunately, a new processor won't really have any effect on the PCI bandwidth of the motherboard.

It may help with other things, though, (screen redraws, Audiosuite processing, etc.), and many users are running well with some of the G3 upgrade cards (Newertech being the most reliable).

Try reducing the SCSI bus transfer rate to 20MB/sec (I assume from what you say that you're running at 40MB/sec or higher). This should give you more than enough bandwidth to maintain your track count, yet reduce traffic on the PCI bus.

Also, if you have your color resolution set to thousands or millions, try 256. This will also reduce some of the PCI bus traffic.

That ought to help you eek out some additional automation performance.



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--Steve Rosenthal, Digidesign ETS