which system would you choose?

[Pepijn Klijs]

Ok, welcome into the world of my vague memory…. But I read somewhere, maybe even on this forum, that the decklink card don’t work well with this motherboard. But even without this vague memory it’s worthy to track down the problem and take out the card to see what happens.

Your system looks fine to me, should be a fast machine.

You can also run a program called geekbench, which benchmarks your system and gives it a score. It’s fee for 32 bit, but 64 bit is 12,99. What I like about it is that it’s a nice reference when you are configuring and testing your system. My score, overclocked, is around 25.000 points. If your system works well it will probably be around 15.000 to 18.000 with no overclock, 64 bit geekbench.

Good luck!

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[Pepijn Klijs]

maybe this has to do anything with it?

https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail/supportnotes/supportnote/?sid=3945&pid=4012&os=win&isSDK=0&snid=9702

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[Timo Teravainen]

I think it’s the Decklink studio card that’s slowing up your machine. If you can get hold of the USB3 output card recommended in the config guide, try that.

[Peter Berg]

Thanks for the great info. I looked at this support note and not sure if it applies. The board we have has a different chipset (X79). Also when I built the system I had installed the latest BIOS from Asus.

I will try without the Decklink card. I’m just surprised that a 1x PCI card could cause the system to slow down that much.

-Peter