dual-cores, noise, features

[willow]

i posted before, i will be buying a prebuilt and taking it to mexico for a studio. (to use with sonar 4 prod.)

i was looking at a HP dual-core AMD 64 x 2, i listened to the audio without anything going and it was real noisy, more so than the 1330 model (AMD 64) i would feel better with a machine that is more quiet from the start. although everyone says that this is not really a problem when you have a seperate firewire mixer/interface?? is this absolutely true??

this dual-core also has alot of features like "wireless lan", tv tuner, etc. i'm kind of worried that this will possibly cause more problems.

is the dual-core really worth buying for the extra speed??

thanks

[Qwerty]

People on the Cakewalk forum are reporting speed improvements using dual core chips with the multi-processing engine engaged.

Traditional wisdom is that DAW motherboard's shouldn't have a lot of extra stuff on the board that isn't directly related to audio processing. So said, I have used systems like this and simply disabling their functionality in the BIOS normally gives a stable system.

Can you take your Sonar v4 with you and test is before you take the pre-built home?

Ciao,

Q.