anyone using amd 1.2 with cakewalk?

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hello there, thanks for reading this, just wanted to check if anyone is using the amd athlon thunderbird 1.2 or similar as i'm thinking of getting this sytem for cakewalk. if anyone can suggest a list of components (controllers, hard drives, mobos etc) i would be grateful as i am just about to order my new computer. thanks in advacnce
ali
 
here goes again..

I'll post my usual AMD recommendations...
Dont waste the power it has... make sure you get the 266mhz system bus AMD...
Make sure you use an AMD 760 chipset (asus a7m266 motherboard has it)
Make sure you use pc2100 DDR Ram (256mb only $115 at Crucial.com) This is twice as fast, in theory...
ATX100 hard drive, or scsi...
This sytem is bad ass once you get it tweaked, which might take awhile...
DONT buy a system off the shelf... you;ll get crappy parts... have one built with what I said if you can't do it yourself.
Dunno where you are, but I'd build it for ya pretty cheap if you order all the stuff off pricewatch.... hard to trust someone you dont know, I know, but... its your call. I'm good people.
Peace,
Paul
 
thanks

cheers paul, i'm in the uk i guess you're in the us let me know if you are closer, have to dash, but i really appreciate the advice,
ta,
ali
 
i've heard there's not much performance boost to DDR

I've heard that the benchmark between using DDR and using 133mhz ram doesn't show a tremendous improvement.

i'm using pc100 ram which is sub standard but i had so much of it, i didn't want to change.

i just bought two 7200rpm ata/100 drives (40g) and one 7200rpm ata/100 (20g). i'm going to RAID the 40's and use the 20 as the application drive... thanks for the suggestion on getting a new app drive tubedude.

i've seen a significant improvement using the 1.2ghz as apposed to my old 450 as far as cpu is concerned; however, my old scsi drive went caput, so i'm only using one old eide drive right now.

once i get the new drives in, i'll post some quantitative numbers on my system.
 
All of the testing articles I've read place the DDR at least 10% better than the standard. Certain applications up to 50% improvement, and from what I understand, it goes farther.... 256 is kinda like the equivalent of 3 hundred-something as far as capacity, but I dont quite understand why.
In a demanding situation such as ours, that 10% increase could make or break us in some intensive uses.
Just my 3cents :)
Paul
 
My suggestion: do NOT use a SOYO motherboard, and do NOT use a VIA chipset. I'm running a measly 550Mhz Athlon, and the board and chipset has been more trouble than it's worth.
 
1.2ghz system 1 week old

i've been using my 1.2ghz VIA setup for a week now and i haven't had any problems with it so far. everything i've recorded, plays back beautifully.

my rig:
1.2ghz athlon thunderbird
abit kt7a-raid
640m ram (pc100)
1, 20gb 7200rpm drive for applications
2, 40gb 7200rpm drives ( RAID 0 striping mode) for audio
aopen 12x10x32x cd-rw drive (haven't made us of it yet)

frontier designs wavecenter PCI/tango d/a/d
cakewalk pro audio 9
autotune
dsp fx
ultrafunk (sonitus) fx
 
the latest VIA chipsets shouldn't be a problem according to everyone i've talked to.
 
getthis said:
the latest VIA chipsets shouldn't be a problem according to everyone i've talked to.
Click to expand...

That may be true, and I hope it is. However, my problems didn't surface right away, so I suspend judgement until... uh, well, until later.
 
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