Buying a new PC for hard Disc Recording

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I am planning to upgrade my PC and need some input as to AMD or an intel pent 3 processer.
Im doing hard disc recording using cakewalk PA9 and cool edit pro mostly.

I will probably get a processor of 1 gighrtz or better with 512 meg of memory but I'm not sure If the AMD chip will work very well with my music software. I will be using a 30 gig hard drive 7200 rpm. I know scsi is best but you have to control your cost somewhere.

Any suggestions?

Thanx
 
Not so much the AMD chip and software, but AMD and their chipset counterparts.

It's getting better, but I'd go for a PIII 1000. For the PIV stuff, I'd give it another 4 or 5 months. Although, I suspect the PIV is an interim, life span maybe 6 months before a 'real' replacement to the PIII.

AMD may be a VIAble route, but it's the questionable VIA chipsets that put me off. Intel is generally a safer bet(at this time). IMO
 
I heard that all the new VIA chipsets were OK and that most of the problems were with the older KX133 chipsets (like I have). I think you can definitely find a good AMD/mobo combo that will work as good as a pent with better price/performance. Correct me if I'm wrong. I might have taken too many VIAgra.
 
Better safe than sorry....

I would suggest you to use a PIII, also.

You should wait to use the PIV, and I'm not so sure about the compatibility of the AMD.

Stick with what works :) .

good luck

spin

p.s. By this time tomorrow, I'm sure all of the pro's would have commented on your post. Am I am sure that the info that they give you will be correct. ;)
 
I've been studying about the VIA KT-133 chipset isue because I want to build a AMD based computer...

The problem is not the chipset it's the compatibility between the certain soundcards and it...so it depends on which kind of souncard are you planing to use... I know that ECHO MIA should work fine with the VIA kt-133 chips...at least that's what they on

http://www.echoaudio.com/

If any one has experiences with ECHO Mia or even other echo products please let me know...

I'll end up with the words of a famous finnish skijumpper/popartist/mediaperson Matti Nykänen: "Elämä on lifea" in english "life is life"
 
i prefer AMD

i've been using AMD chips since the K6-3. i liked that it had 2 levels of on-dye cache and used the motherboard cache as L3, whereas the P2 at the time had the motherboard cache as L2.

i now have the AMD 1.2ghz athlon thunderbird, and haven't had any audio problems using it with my frontier design wavecenter/tango D/A/D card, and the ABIT MB didn't have an abundance of IF/THENs regarding the PCI slots and what gear you can and can't put in them.

HOWEVER (as always), to add to the rah-rah about the AMD chipset and motherboards, the only issue i've had with my ABIT KT7A-RAID was that i had an old adaptec scsi pci card that just didn't seem to want to work correctly. this was a 1 on a 10 scale for me because i never intended to keep that old UW-scsi HD anyway. i switch to RAID 0 configuration of two ATA-100, 7200rpm drives.

if you were intending to use ATA drives anyway, go wth the Athlon and RAID 0 the drives.
 
Thanks for all the input everyone. I'm using an Echo darla audio card and a Roland scc-1 midi card which is an old ISA card but it still sounds great. It would be so nice is I could continue using it. The problem is that most mother boards don't have ISA slots but some AMD boards still have them.

The differeece in price between AMD and P3 is not that great anymore.

Abit makes a Mother board that has 1 ISA slot for a 1 gig p-3 with the BX chipset--I've been looking real hard at that. But its kinda old technology.
Whats a guy to do??????
 
AMD WORKS FINE

Our computer builder/consultant runs an AMD 1.2 ghz ( I think) on his own studio and is building a 1.4ghz PC for us with an AMD. He runs VEGAS and Waves (and every other freakin program in the business) and he has absolutely zero problems with it. I expressed my concern with AMD also, but he is a computer engineer with a the company that runs all the computers for the airline industry, so the guy knows his stuff pretty damn well.... and he is content with AMD. I say go with it.
 
sound blaster live

Before you go and invest in that soundblaster live. consider that if you are just gaming with it Its ok. But if you are recording Its inferior to most of the stuff on the market.

If you cant afford an expensive sound card try the turtle beach santa cruz. Itas a 4 input card with 18 bit word length and about the same price as a sblive.

For about 150 though an m-audio audiophile with a 24 bit word length 96 sample rate. Its a good card that wont break you and it will work good with the VIA chips.
 
Don't worry, soundblaster would be the last thing I would use.

I'd love to have that Roland SC 8850 or the SC 8820. But, big big bucks.

I Talked to a guy at Sound Chaser and he said the AMD 1.2GHz (266 HHz FSB) works great with just about everything as long as you use the KT 133 Chip set , That's what they sell, so I will also use the Iwill KK266 Mother board with 768 MB PC133 Memory, HP12/8/32X CDR-W, and a 7200 RPM 40 GB Ultra/100 Hard drive.

I'm going to order it today.

This complete system will cost $1088 Includes a CD-ROM, GeForce2 MX 32MB AGP video Bd., 3 COM network card, Mid tower case with 300 Watt Power supply, Kybd, mouse, floppy dr. and Windows ME.

not too bad, Huh?.

Check it out and configure your own PC.

http://www.micropro.com/

Gaffer
 
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You are going to want a cd-rw drive with that . Come to think of that you may also want a new dvd-rw, Ive seen them at 500bucks, They also extend ram to 4.3 gigs.

Real take over the earth power..arghh..arghh...arghh.
 
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