Intel Clovertown x5355 HD3 system - it works! or not…?

[black030]

I just finished building a HD3 PCI sytem:
Mobo asus DSBV-D,
4 Gig Kingston 667 Ram,
one Intel Xeon x5355 (quad)
Western Digital Raptor 150 Gb
Samsung SpinPoint P120 SP2514N 250 Gb
Seasonic 650 Watt PSU (maybe I need 750 or 1000 Watts?)
nVidia 8800GTS
razer copperhead mouse
WinXP pro SP2

ProTools 7.3.1cs2
HD3 with 1 core and 2 accels
i/o 192

Everything seems to work, but since I have absolutely NO experience with ProTools, I really don't know if the following behaviour is normal:
In a 26 track session with about 10 tdm plug-ins and some rtas plug-ins (not that much) - at a certain point fader movement becomes jerky when I try to move them with the mouse. There's always a delay until they react.
Does that ever happen on a Dell Precision 690?

[Brandonx1]

No this is not normal. Does everything pass digitest?

[black030]

I did the test and everything passed BUT I've noticed that the core was on ID #2 instead of ID#0 where it should belong. So, I changed them to the correct order and now that strange behavior seems to have perished. (PCIs whre the other way around on a P4 system where I first tested the cards before getting the DSBV-D motherboard). I have to test it further on.

Hmm… it refuses to boot. I have to wait 10 minutes and then the system boots alright. I can think of 2 causes: a) voltage b) heat??

I really need a STABLE system - so, seems as a Dell 690 for me…

[Eugene]

Did you try to reinstall PT completly since you've changed cards order? Also, is Raid disabled in bios? Maybe it'll help...
Btw, does PT utilize all 4 cores of processor, or just 2?

[black030]

Btw, does PT utilize all 4 cores of processor, or just 2?

How do I check that?

[Eugene]

How do I check that?

You can check it in "Playback engine" menu and see the number of processors for RTAS.

[black030]

Yep, it supports 4(!!) Processors.

[Eugene]

That's great! Did you find solution for the issues above? This mobo's specifications look very attractive for HD PCI-X...

[black030]

so, after a week of testing I am totally frustrated - this system seems to be incompatible with my old PCI HD3. It shuts itself down - I haven't figured out when but it it has the tendency to do that when the cpu is stressed... I have no more stamina to go all the way and find out where the problem may be.
So I'll go for the digidesign approved stuff!