Cubase Se Syst Requirements

[billy3000]

PC System Requirements

* Processor: Pentium III 500 MHz or AMD K7 (Pentium III / Athlon 1 GHz or faster recommended)
* RAM: 256 MB (512 MB recommended)
* Operating System: Windows 2000, Windows XP Home or XP Professional
* Sound Card: Windows MME compatible audio hardware (ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended)
* Hard Disk: 1 GB of free disk space

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this is from Sam Ash I think. ThePC the cubase software will be installed on has a celeron processor. which is NOT listed above.. any thoughts?

thanks!

Bill

 

[Guernica]

I dont think that puter's gonna cut the schnitzel man

 

[billy3000]

I Think You're Right

I dont think that puter's gonna cut the schnitzel man

Did you mean the one I described, that belongs to my buddy Brett?

or the one from the sys requirements in the sam ash ad?

The idea (best laid plans and all that rot) was for the 2 of us to have matching software and PC's, within reason. The Cubase SE will be identical.

the rub: as little as i know about PC's, I am almost certain we can't just jack up the celeron and put in a PIII500. I don't even know where to find one new.
Even if i could find a new PIII500, it's been a dinosaur for years.

Obviously we need a new motherboard, more ram new CPU .....it's turning into another chinese fire drill!

Thanks for the feedback. any suggestions? I know, get a day job. But aside from that. thanks dude!

Bill

 

[hugojacquet]

Depends

Ok,

Celerons are cut down Pentium 3 and later pentium 4.

It all depends on what you need. How many affects and sofsynths will you run.

A Celeron P4 at 2.6 mhz beats the shit out of an amd thunderbird 1200. The first being newer, the latter older model.

I worked happily with a thunderbird 1200. But it did not cut it for my polyphony needs regarding sofsynths.

So:

softsynths and real time effects=> need of raw calculation power (floating point). AMD are well known to be good at that.

Samples: (softsampler) lot's of ram. Min 512mb preferabilly 1 gig (especialy for the modern sample playback machines like DFHS and BFD.

hard disc recording Track count: speed of Hard disk. Dous not count any more. Disks are so speedy and big these days. Only counts for notebooks that have usually slower rotating disks, but most wil do for 20 tracks and higher (audio).

AMD64 and its family are the fastest and most efficient at same real clock speed than P4

Intel Centrino laptop processor is also VERY efficient. A bit like AMD

Intel P4 will be discontinued in favor of more efficient designs (read based on centrino).

Best bang for the buck: AMD 3000 bartons leftovers + some discounted leftover nvidea nforce2 mobo. ATTENTION: Upgrade path= nonexistent

Not the new sempron ones. AMD only tries to gain mo money on this.

Regards.

Hugo

www.pego.be

 

[billy3000]

decided to peek at old threads

I dont think that puter's gonna cut the schnitzel man

man! I can't believe I've been fiddle f***-ing around this long and still not accomplished a darn thing.

well, as for your quote, you couldn't be more correct

the puter will be an athlon 64. the question is : is cubase se still a program
worth messing with?

this thread is a major wakeup call for me. maybe I should devote the rest of my life to writing a book about how to live 80 years and never actually DO anything.

november, 2005 this was. geez, I better get with it here. any thoughts about cubase se much appreciated! thanks

Bill