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Old 02-15-2010, 04:12 AM   #4
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RME cards are renound for there well written and therefore low latency ASIO drivers.

Don't go firewire or USB, they will stil have the low buffer settings, but most if not all have a safety buffer added so the actual latency is higher by a couple of ms. Get yourself an old RME HDSP PCI card there's quite a few around second hand now as all the new Mac's are PCIe only so they're having to upgrade to the PCie versions.The 'old'PCI versions are exactly the same quality wise so us PC users can carry on using them.

make sure it's the HDSP version though as the original ones don't have x64 drivers.

Also the rest of your system will dictate how well it will run at low latency.The new i7/i5 chips are currently the best as they have on cpu memory controllers so no FSB, which in the real world gives amazing low latency performance.


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