advise on purchasing oc for recording

[backwardsblue]

i have these links, you guys seeing anything nice as far as pc's for recording?

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/category/c108/cp24/

this is the one i want

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MusicXPC/

its features:

Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz 512K cache
North bridge:Intel 845GE South bridge:ICH4
Shuttle PC Small Form Factor
Aluminum Chassis
533MHz Front Side Bus
512MB DDR333 RAM
DVD/CDRW 48x40x16x8
ATA133 7200rpm 80GB System Drive
ATA133 7200rpm 120GB System Drive
Microsoft Windows XP®
4 USB 2.0 ports
3 1394 [Firewire®] ports
2 Serial ports
1 Ethernet 100Mbps LAN port
1 PCI slot
1 AGP slot
1 Microphone input
1 SPDIF input/output
1 Line output/Headphone output
1 Parallel Port
1 VGA output, SiS 651 RAMDAC, up to 333 MHz
11.8" x 7.9" x 7.3"
Shuttle I.C.E. heat-pipe cooling technology

 

[brzilian]

The XPC is an overpriced PC that does nothing special. Save money and build your own.

The 845 chipset is outdated to say the least. It still uses the 533Mhz Front Side Bus. If you're going with intel, you want either the 865 or 875 chipset which use the 800Mhz Front Side Bus and are compatible with the newer Hyperthreading Pentium 4 chips.

It doesn't even say what soundcard it has. I'm assuming its onboard audio. You DO NOT want onboard audio for recording purposes.

 

[distortedrumble]

when your title said oc...i thought of oxycontin and i was trying to understand how that would help recording.....anyways wouldnt you want to build your own comp? its not that hard and you get exactly the stuff you want.

 

[Polaris20]

Like Brzlian said, the XPC you listed is way out of date, and it's definitely overpriced.

I don't see how those clowns stay in business, when it is so clearly just a Shuttle kit. For comparison's sake, I spec'd out a Shuttle kit with an Athlon for LAN parties yesterday, and I do believe it would kick the crap out of that XPC:

Shuttle SK43G $205.00
Athlon 3200+ $187.00
Mushkin 512MB DDR333 $92.00
Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 128MB $153.00
Hitachi 80gig 7.2k SATA $73.00
52x32x52x16 CD-R/W DVD-ROM Combo $52.00
Logitech Optical Desktop $35.00
Windows XP Home $91

$888.00