help me with my setup...

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Here's the thing: A couple of months ago, I bought an audiophile 2496 card with Cubase vst. I have an old motherboard not the new 80x model, a 5400 hard drive and 256mb of memory. I was always getting pops during playback until recently nothing worked on my computer. The technician said that the motherboard was broken and he ordered a replacement from taiwan. He lent me a temporary one. I tried importing a wav file into cubase and the pops were even worse. Now I have money to buy a standalone recorder for about 800 bucks coz I was pissed at my computer's performance but they sell it here in the philippines for 4 times the price and twice the price in belgium where my grandma lives. So I've decided to upgrade my computer. The technician lives next door and hes got a long product list. What would you suggest for each part that I have to upgrade. Can you give me the product names for those that I should buy? I'm guessing that I have to change the harddrive, motherboard, processor, chipset??. what else am I missing? Any help would be appreciated..
 
Recommendations:

ASUS Motherboard 815e or 845e chipset
Intel CPU 2.0 at least or higher
512mb or 1gig DDR Ram
7200 Rpm Hard Drive 80 to 160mb { 2 HD's are recommended}
Descent CDRW
The Audiophile will do just fine
Cubase ?? dont know...I dont use it
OS WIN 2k or XP

The above is for an upgrade....you would be better off selling your old machine and building a new. {custom}
 
If I buy an 80 gig hard drive, where should I install my windows files? on the 80 gig drive or on my old 10 gig hard drive?
 
The reason I said 2 HD's is because its nice to have a single drive dedicated to audio only which you probably already realize.
But a 10gig drive ??? ouch !
Thats a hard choice to make.
If your going to be using other programs with windows I would put your OS and all programs on the 80 and reserve the 10 for audio only.
But I would certainly consider saving up for another 40-80gig 7200 rpm drive for audio.;)
 
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