I am having serious performance problems on my PC with DIGI96 or Hammerfall cards. Any suggestions why?
Several users report significant performance problems when using the Hammerfall and DIGI96 series with the following motherboard/chipset combos: Asus A7A266 and Iwill KA266-R with chipset ALiMAGIK 1. The Hammerfall can’t be used even at the highest latency setting, the DIGI96 series shows sub-average performance.
As far as we know the Ali chipset MAGIK 1 is the slowest of all DDR-RAM chipsets, it is even slower than the fastest PC133 chipset. Additionally it offers a PCI-bus performance that can hardly be lower. The Hammerfall, which requires a constant transfer rate of 9 MByte/s (52 channels I/O at 44.1 kHz), can’t be used with this board at all. The DIGI96 series works, but suffers from bad performance. While DIGICheck will normally measure a transfer rate of more than 30 MByte/s (on Intel boards up to 130 MByte/s, which is the maximum transfer rate of the PCI-bus), the ALi-based boards reach sensational 8 (eight) MByte/s. Therefore we have to warn against boards using this ALi chipset. And we are not alone. Hauppauge, manufacturer of TV cards, also mentions the ALi chipset as
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