Getting the right stuff

[Cyrokk]

It looks as if I will have enough cash in a few months to start putting together my DAW. My plan right now is to order the following custom setup from Cyberpowerpc.com:

Case: MEDIUM 10-BAY 350WATT ATX CASE
CDRW: 40X12X48
CPU: AMD Athlon XP-1900+ [1.6 GHZ QuantiSpeed] 266 FSB CPU
2 hard drives: 60GB 5400 RPM ATA 100
Memory: 256 MB PC266 PC2100 DDR
Motherboard: ASUS A7N266 NForce 420DMB W/ GF2MX Video
OS: Windows XP Home Edition
Video: NVIDIA TNT-2 M64 32MB AGP

Total cost for above (with a couple accessories) comes to $800. It comes with an AC97 sound card, but I plan to switch this out eventually with a Lynx card. For software, I'm leaning towards Cubase and Wavelab.

It's just me, my drum machine, guitars, a couple fx processors, an ADAT XT, and a love for heavy metal. I'm thinking I'll need at minimum 16 tracks on the computer, and the only fx processing I'm looking to use is eq.

Are there any changes I should consider making? Any problems you forsee down the road?

Cy

 

[brzilian]

First off, 256MB of RAM just doesn't cut it nowadays - the minimum you should consider is 512Mb.

Secondly, that TNT2 card is very old. You can buy current nVidia Geforce 4 based cards for less than $100 nowadays and the performance is much better. Also, your Mobo already has onboard video anyways, whats the deal?

 

[Cyrokk]

The deal is I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing. So by increasing to 512 memory and removing the redundant TNT Videocard I basically break even.

Also, the hard drive RPM should've read 7200, not 5400.

Thanks for pointing that out to me!

Cy