I normally disable all energy management. Fan speed I usually set manual levels unless things run too hot. Your converters are sub standard but usable with care and discretion. Actually the ADA8000 used to be a common mod platform. Other than that, follow the Black Viper recommendations for Win7.

TheJackAttack, post: 385134 wrote: I normally disable all energy management. Fan speed I usually set manual levels unless things run too hot. Your converters are sub standard but usable with care and discretion. Actually the ADA8000 used to be a common mod platform. Other than that, follow the Black Viper recommendations for Win7.

I know that the weakest link in my setup so far is the converters. My thought on it was get a great interface and eventually when i can afford it, buy better converters. My goal is to save for the rosetta apogees. But if I learn the interface the only thing I would have to do is unplug the behringers and plug in the upgraded converters. The price of better converters are out of my budget at this moment and WOW can they get up there. 32 channels of lavry golds would be great but never going to happen. HA! Is the Behringer mod that ive heard about worth looking into? I have a family member that can do these things, but would it be worth the time?

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Check the production date on your units. Some can have a "premium" mod but older ones can't. They still won't likely be in the class as the top of the line but likely as good as a stock RME/Apogee unit.

There are some other companies that have similar mod's as I understand things.

before I install the OS should I set the storage devices to AHCI?

Set the controller to RAID prior to installing the OS even if you aren't going to run RAID. Switching it later can sometimes cause problems.

TheJackAttack, post: 385147 wrote: Set the controller to RAID prior to installing the OS even if you aren't going to run RAID. Switching it later can sometimes cause problems.

I wont be using a raid array so why that instead of ahci?

RAID setting enables all the advanced properties of AHCI.

Please forgive my learning curve. This is my first build and ive recorded on a store bought hp with a dsp2000 pci setup without doing much to the computer other than changing the optical drive. I can run software and have been able to get it to work well enough to record 8 albums for others who have been extremely pleased with the outcome. Building a new daw and trying to configure everything the right way so I can have optimal performance is tricky. I want to force myself to learn everything i can so i am able to move up into a pro, semi pro recording environment. I have little knowledge about RAID and AHCI. And all setups are different for the hardware that others use. If you could point me to a site that would explain some of the things im needing to know i would appreciate it. Im sure that my questions are frustrating but I need the knowledge. Thanks for your help because this is a new school for me and i just want to have a great system and get down to making music.

Wikipedia is a general source of information realizing that the veracity or accuracy depends upon who submitted the entry. For all things Intel, you can go direct to the source as they have available most of their spec sheets and white papers. I am not conversant these days with AMD though in the early 2000's they were superior in actual practice to Intel. In the current arc, they are nearly equal but I prefer the i3/i5/i7 processors unless you get to server class builds.