Do you experience frequent stops in PT LE/MP?

[peritus]

As in... "I need a new computer"....

If so, what kind of computer do you have?

If not, what kind of computer do you have?

I'm trying to build a PT LE/MP monster on a budget...

I'm thinking:

Core 2 Duo E6600... dual core 2.4... 1066 fsb ..
DDR2 800 x 2GB x 2
320GB Seagate 7200rpm 16mb SATA HD
Dual DVI ATI graphics x1650
zalman cooler..

Comes to about $1,600 with a 22 in Samsung widescreen LCD...

I can't deal with PT stopping all the time!!!!

[peritus]

http://www.sweetwater.com/creation_s.../csrackpro.php

Them:

Asus w/975X Chipset
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz / 1066MHz Front Side Bus
Zalman CPU Cooler
2GB DDR2/533 (2 x 1GB)
Glyph Seagate 80GB SATA 7,200 RPM
2 x Glyph Seagate 250GB SATA 7,200 RPM "Raid Ready"
DVD+/-RW with Lightscribe
Multi Card Reader
Radeon X1050 (1 VGA / 1DVI-I)
2 x FireWire
6 x USB 2.0
2 x PCI (all available)
2 x PCI-X (all available)
2 x PCI-e 16x (1 available)
Auralex SheetBlok-Plus™ Sound Dampening System
Vibration - Resistant AcoustiFeet
Antec 500 Watts
Windows XP Pro OEM
Acronis TrueImage OEM
110-key Logitech keyboard with master volume control and programmable keys
2 years on the entire machine.
3 years for the CPU.
5 years for the hard drives, PLUS one year overnight drive replacement!
Rackmount

$2999.97



Me:

Asus P5W DH Deluxe/Wifi-AP w/975X Chipset
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz / 1066MHz Front Side Bus
Zalman CPU Cooler
8GB DDR2/800 (4 x 2GB)
4 x Glyph Seagate 320GB SATA 7,200 RPM "Raid Ready"
2 x Lite-On DVD+/-RW with Lightscribe
SIIG Multi Card Reader
Radeon X1650 (2 x DVI-I)
1 x FireWire
4 x USB 2.0
3 x PCI (all available)
2 x PCI-e 1x (all available)
2 x PCI-e 16x (1 available)
Antec 850 Watts
Windows XP Pro RETAIL
Samsung 22" Widescreen 2ms LCD Monitor
SATA Removable Hard Drive Tray
Antec P180 tower

$2477.82 (Parts from NewEgg)

[Hard2Hear]

http://www.adkproaudio.com/choose2.cfm

And I can build a system with a QUAD core2 for under 2000. Sweetwater is always overpriced and offering really old technology in many of their systems.

[peritus]

Originally Posted by Hard2Hear

http://www.adkproaudio.com/choose2.cfm

And I can build a system with a QUAD core2 for under 2000. Sweetwater is always overpriced and offering really old technology in many of their systems.

Cool... Thanks

[charger]

If I put together a system, I would try to keep it under $1000... simply because the "newer, faster" parts I put in, for significantly more money, would end up being obsolete pretty quickly. So I'd go with a 6400 processor, 2GB of RAM, probably two or three drives, not one, and a lower spec video car (unless you are gaming on the system, Pro Tools LE is not going to need all that much video horespower).

My friend runs his system on an AMD Athlon XP that's I think a 3200... a couple years old... and it runs pretty damn fast, and handles everything he throws at it.

[peritus]

Originally Posted by charger

If I put together a system, I would try to keep it under $1000... simply because the "newer, faster" parts I put in, for significantly more money, would end up being obsolete pretty quickly. So I'd go with a 6400 processor, 2GB of RAM, probably two or three drives, not one, and a lower spec video car (unless you are gaming on the system, Pro Tools LE is not going to need all that much video horespower).

My friend runs his system on an AMD Athlon XP that's I think a 3200... a couple years old... and it runs pretty damn fast, and handles everything he throws at it.

Great info! Thanks for your help...

I'm currently scaling back my build... Details to follow...

[steve.h]

I'm running a macbook pro w/ 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo & 2GB ram, so far I haven't had a single slow down in Pro Tools (or really anywhere else, except some games haha)

[jonnyc]

Originally Posted by steve.h

I'm running a macbook pro w/ 2.2Ghz Core 2 Duo & 2GB ram, so far I haven't had a single slow down in Pro Tools (or really anywhere else, except some games haha)

Never had a problem on my mac either. Well maybe 5-6 dropouts in half a decade. I don't think that's all that bad.

[GOODLAND]

I must say, when it comes to Pro Tools, Macs run it the best. I have not had one single error message in the last year using my Mac Pro.

Quad Xeon 2.66
4gb Ram