Approximate Budget for a T-Bird System

[berkleywoods]

If I was to put together an T-Bird DAW as described in the popular article that keeps floating around here, approximately how much would the computer cost me building it myself?? Including monitor, mouse, keyboard.....

And on the Beginners to Advanced Spectrum,how does ths T-Bird match up?? I'd like to use the Aardvark Q10 on the machine and record Drums, Bass, Guitars, Keys, and Vocals. Is the machine powerful enough??? How many tracks with fx would I approximately be able to get?? I need 16 as a minimum, but I'm hoping to get more like 24.

Can anyone help me? Or offer other suggetions and insight?

Thanks

[lavoz]

Hey Berk...

It all depends on where you can pick up your equipment. I just got done building a box with an Anthlon 1.33, on a K7S5A board with 768 megs of ram, 2 HD's (Maxtor 20 gig taken out of an old unit and a new WD 40 gig) a Nvidia video card and an Antec box. I think the whole set me back just under 4-bills. Granted I had someof the stuff...HD, a stick of RAM (256), video card and OS...it was still a good deal.

lavoz

[Gidge]

http://www.prorec.com/prorec/article...256A7F00747CC9
assuming you mean the roll your own, the whole shabang shouldnt set you back more than $750

check www.pricewatch.com for prices


http://www.prorec.com/prorec/article...256B1D00772FB4
on this project with a Roll Your Own, Rip got 48 tracks of 24 bit audio with tons of plugins going

this would definitely be considered a pro machine.....the Q10 with this machine (check with Aardvark for any known compatability issues) would rock!