Thankyou for your help! It's nice to know that my network isn't the limiting part of my system now!

Certainly!
I looked hard for a solution to this before posting, and noticed a lot of others have the same issue, and are either still unresolved, or they found a solution and didn't document it for the rest of us to see. Perhaps it might be a good idea to include some details of this issue with onboard LAN controllers in the official documentation for the product? My apologies if this is aready the case, but I was unable to find any help before posting my problem here.

Thought I would add for anyone reading with the same problems I had, my network cards came today, I installed them and now I get no clicks and pops at 32 samples, when 512 was problematic before. Excellent, money well spent! Get the Intel Gigabit Pro 1000 CT's!

I am using two of these

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So AMD which I have never had any problem with, the drivers have always been great and there has never been any DPC latency issues with AMD cards. This unfortunately can not be said for Nvidia in my experience!

I've not upgraded to Cubase 7, but in 6.5 there hasn't been a problem. What issues are you having with Cubase 7?

Sounds like the same setup as me then, I HAD to get the sabertooth as I also have an older PCI RME card I didn't want to upgrade. If the board has the features you want, and it does if you've selected it, then it's worth getting a decent PCIe network card IMO. Like you, I had to have Asus. The only other Asus board with a legacy PCI slot for your sound card I could find is the lowest model P9x79, but that only has 2 sata 6g ports which I don't consider enough.

If I were you I would stick with the sabertooth and buy the network card, the RME works flawlessly with this board.

Ordered 2 on the strength of your recommendation, thanks!

That's the one on my master PC. Damn. Can't remember specifically what is on my slave, but I used to use that slave as my master with no problems before, and it's definitely something different than the 82579V.

Is there a particular PCIe card you would recommend?

Thanks.

Thanks for the answer.

Both onboard LAN ports are gigabit.
1. I'm not using a router or anything, just plugging directly in from one PC to the other. Is there any additional setting up I have to do to ensure it's using Gigabit?
2. Neither PC even has WiFi, strictly audio machines with no internet access.
3. DPC Latency on the 3930k PC is 32us, on the 2700k PC it is 50us. There are never any spikes.



Thankyou.

I will also add that using just the master pc, with the VEP instance also on the master PC, I have none of these problems.

Hi,.
After upgrading my master and slave PC's, I'm now getting clicks and pops at the same latency settings I used to be fine with.
Master PC:
intel 3930k - asus sabertooth x79 - RME 9652 Hammerfall
Slave PC:
intel 2700k - asus p8z68
I have the two connected directly to each other with an ethernet cable, using onboard LAN for both PC's.
The hammerfall is set up at 256 samples, with 2 buffers on the VEP plugin, within cubase 6.5.3. It makes no difference how many buffers I use, i still get clicks and pops. Going up to 512 samples on the sound card helps a little bit but it's still there, and going up to 1024 samples is completely unacceptable, when with my old PC setup, 256 or even 128 samples worked fine.

Unfortunately, I have no idea where to start, or what might be the fault. Can anyone here help me? Thankyou.