...for music, obviously.
I have collected opinions about 50-50 on the Athlon64 (socket 939) vs P4 debate. The biggest limit in mixing is obviously handling the large amount of plugins such as multi-band compressors and reverbs. Also, the rendering time for the complete audio mixdown usually stretches to be longer than the actual track. How do I decide which processor I will get as the heart of my new computer? It does have to have good performance, but I also want to give a vote for future updates. I don't want to get a MoBo that can not recieve a new good processor for the next update in 2-4 years.
The actual models in question for my budget would be AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (939) and Intel Pentium 4 3,2GHz (775).
I am going to stay away from the VIA (and SIS?) chipsets, NVIDIA nForce or Intel preferred.
Currently:
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Epox 8K9A
1GB 333MHz DDR
Oh yeah, should I opt for the DDR2? I was trying to keep update costs quite low this time (processor and mobo only), but I do want to get up to date with things.
Edit: Mac is not an option, sorry.
-Aki.
I have collected opinions about 50-50 on the Athlon64 (socket 939) vs P4 debate. The biggest limit in mixing is obviously handling the large amount of plugins such as multi-band compressors and reverbs. Also, the rendering time for the complete audio mixdown usually stretches to be longer than the actual track. How do I decide which processor I will get as the heart of my new computer? It does have to have good performance, but I also want to give a vote for future updates. I don't want to get a MoBo that can not recieve a new good processor for the next update in 2-4 years.
The actual models in question for my budget would be AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (939) and Intel Pentium 4 3,2GHz (775).
I am going to stay away from the VIA (and SIS?) chipsets, NVIDIA nForce or Intel preferred.
Currently:
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
Epox 8K9A
1GB 333MHz DDR
Oh yeah, should I opt for the DDR2? I was trying to keep update costs quite low this time (processor and mobo only), but I do want to get up to date with things.
Edit: Mac is not an option, sorry.
-Aki.