ISA gets more and more rare - what would you do?

**tivi** · September 7th, 2001, 11:15 PM

Hi there!

I am in a quandary!!!
Need your help or advice!

At the moment my well-beloved EWS64 XL
works perfectly with an Abit KT7 Raid Board
and an Athlon 900MHz.

I would like to upgrade my system
In the near future.

Well, actually I wanted to buy an Abit KT7A
Raid Board and an Athlon 1400MHz/FSB266.
It seemed to me to be an reasonable decision.

But then, regarding the dumping prices
for RAM Modules, I asked myself:
hey, why don't you buy DDR RAM Modules??

And because I love Abit Boards my choice
would be the Abit KG7 Raid Mainboard.

And now the Problem: NO ISA BUS !!!!

So, I then looked for a PCI-Card from
Terratec. But, what card can be compared
with the EWS64 XL?? Maybe the EWX 24/96 ???

I just used my EWS64 XL for digital recording.
But, would you give it away and replace it by the EWX 24/96?????

The other problem is, that I was one of the first who got this card. So the
Hardwarerevision is 1.0.
And therefore there is no support for
Win2k or WinXP!

I think Cubase and WnXP could rock!
Don't you think?

So, what would YOU do??

Thank you in advance!

tivi

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**Jason Wong** · September 8th, 2001, 11:05 AM

Hello!

I think KT7A is a TRAP for EWS64xl..be careful~

ISA bus motherboard is very rare now...
If you want to use this board in the modern pc..(like P4...Althon4..)Please think twice~
It will spend you a lot of time to fit the
soundcard actually~I suggest you don't upgrade your pc if you haven't play the PC
game smile

You better to get other brand soundcard if you have $$.

EDO ram is a joke! biggrin

I won't to spend the $$ to upgrade this board
(including Microwave PC).
I won't spend $100 USD to get 64mb storge~
It is the game for 1998 P1 system.
Now 2001...3g or 4ghz is coming smile

So this board will useless soon.
No future~

Best wishes.
Jason

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**tivi** · September 10th, 2001, 07:28 PM

Hi Jason!

Thank you for your commentary!

But I am not a "Gamer". I am a computer
technician and musician.....
So I combined both.
At the moment I find it great to work with
cubase and virtual instruments. And
therefore I would like to have "hidden reserves" for the future!

At the moment my TBird does a good job.
4-5 VST Instruments playing approximately
together (effects included) 9-10 Tracks.
CPU load about 40%.....

You know what I mean....?

T H X!

Regards,

tivi

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**Arnoud de Jong** · September 13th, 2001, 08:46 AM

If you use the card only for digital audio recording and don't use the midi/synth stuff on the EWS, the choice can be simple: buy the 24/96, buy a nice new mainboard and go on with your music wink

But carefully read all the specs and features on the Terratec site. It's a very good card, but you should figure out if it meats all your requirements and the features you want.
Good luck,
Arnoud

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Arnoud

**tivi** · September 21st, 2001, 11:08 PM

Thank You Arnoud!

At the moment, I really don't know
what to do....

I will have to think twice.

By the way, do have owners of the EWS64 XL with Hardware Rev. 1.0 the possibillity to
get the card replaced by a card with higher
Revision?

thx

tivi

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**Jason Wong** · September 22nd, 2001, 11:29 AM

I don't think the 1.0 revision user will
replace the new one...

because they won't to spend the $$ and time
to pay the hope to this card biggrin

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**tivi** · September 23rd, 2001, 02:47 PM

Hi Jason!

I thought that Terratec would replace it....

cu

tivi

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**Boye** · September 24th, 2001, 03:39 AM

TerraTec replaced mine promptly, and my board was... Interesting. It was a v1.00 which got replaced to v1.20 I think. No cost other than shipment.

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