Computer build questions

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Hello all,

New here & planning to upgrade my computer. I will be working with a stand-alone recorder (I think I'm getting an AW1600) & flying in the tracks to process with Audition, Ozone, Sound Forge, etc.
I am thinking about building (having it built, really) my next computer, and trying to decide what processor to use. Gonna be Intel, but my question is do I need to go with a Quad core, or will a Duo be fine? Does the audio processing benefit from the Quad? If anyone has a suggestion as to which MOBO would work well for this, I'm all ears.
DDR2 or 3 for RAM? Do you see a difference worth the money?
The other plan would be to buy a ready-built computer. Any opinions on brands? I can get a Dell with the latest i7 processor, pretty loaded, for $1500. Would need a soundcard, of course.
Thanks.:D
 
rtech said:
...do I need to go with a Quad core, or will a Duo be fine? Does the audio processing benefit from the Quad? If anyone has a suggestion as to which MOBO would work well for this, I'm all ears.
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Depends on your software. Check with the developer. Also important note: All software with active development teams will eventually support multiple-cores.
rtech said:
DDR2 or 3 for RAM? Do you see a difference worth the money?
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For audio work, no.
rtech said:
The other plan would be to buy a ready-built computer. Any opinions...?
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Total waste of money.

Further reading: https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=275048

Even further (technical) reading: https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=275303
 
I'd check out the E8400. Plenty processor for anything you'd want to throw at it.
 
NYMorningstar said:
You may want to look into 64 bit processing if you're going to keep this for awhile. That is the direction things are heading.
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Not to devalue what NYMorningstar said, but the Core 2 Duo chips, and every other mainstream line of current chips all support 64 bit and have for years.
NYMorningstar said:
My wife just got a computer built with 8 gigs of RAM. Imagine that, 8 gb's. Check out the Core i7 plus X58 platform.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2333939,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532
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The only thing that has ever maxed out my 4 GB has been rendering ray-traced 3D scenes in Mental Ray with millions of polygons at HD resolutions...a task normally done on server farms (I had to do it for a project in class :(). Nevertheless, the day will inevitably come when 8 GB is required just to boot a computer. I will check out that i7 now, as I haven't really looked into it yet.
 
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