JUST NEED THE PC!!!

[the ill chef]

I already have:
MOTU 2408
YAMAHA o1V w/ ADAT card
CUBASE VST/24
BitHeadz DS-1 sampler

My budget for PC is $1000-2000
I know this is a wide range but thats what I'm here for.

To SCSI or not to SCSI (since i have the $$$ for it) that is my first question. Will spending an extra few hundred (to go SCSI) make much of a difference? What will I gain?

Also, since the 2408 is actually my sound card, will I need a cheeper SBlaster type card to run my browser through? The internet will be the only other function I use the PC for. I'd like to listen to MP3's and stuff without having to fire up my whole system.

Lastly, if I have a DVD/CDWR (if there is such a thing, or any CD-ROM)will I be able to sample off of CD into my DS-1? Or will that not work? Or will I need two CD-ROM's?

HELP ME OB-1'S YOU ARE MY ONLY HOPE!
(since Jabba took my money and has no use for me now)

 

[Steve Tittle]

After posing the same question myself I can help a little. While SCSI sounds good on paper as far as HDD it is a waste of money with size and speed of IDE constantly on the rise. It used to be more reliable and faster but from what I ahave learned lately is, it is not worth at least double your money for the same storeage space. I have though been looking at SCSI CD-r though as they aren't that bad, as far as price goes.

Memory and proc speed are really the main concerns as far as I'm concerned.

I'm sure others will be able to help more!!!

 

[Layth]

ill, I know scsi is over kill for audio unless your going for 24 tracks and 3 effects on every one and even then ide is probably fast enough but if you go with scsi on everything like the master drive the CDROM, a slave hard drive, a CDR drive, your scanner ect then you don't use any of those damn IRQ's on the operating system which always seemed to used up every time you add a pci or isa card to the computer. Thats the only benefit I can think of for using scsi besides a little more speed and even then you would need the 10,000rpm drives.

If you want to do some quick and dirty computer config. check out http://commerce.us.dell.com/welcome/minicat.asp?brand_id=DIM&customer_id=04

Layth


[This message has been edited by Layth (edited 02-28-2000).]

 

[Jerome Dragun]

Whatever you buy I figured I'd tell ya that i
researched buying a system through local dealers, pc buyer, etc and wound up going to a local computer show at a college and saved
about 6 to 7 hundred on the system I bought.
AMD athlon k7 650 7200rpm hard drive plextor 8x4x32 17 inch monitor 128 meg ram 40x cd
32 bit vidieo epsom 660 printer etc., 1300
dollars. The only drawback was if something
didn't work correctly which it did It wouldn't be so local to get it repaired.

 

[Jerome Dragun]

Whatever you buy I figured I'd tell ya that i
researched buying a system through local dealers, pc buyer, etc and wound up going to a local computer show at a college and saved
about 6 to 7 hundred on the system I bought.
AMD athlon k7 650 7200rpm hard drive plextor 8x4x32 17 inch monitor 128 meg ram 40x cd
32 bit vidieo epsom 660 printer etc., 1300
dollars. The only drawback was if something
didn't work correctly which it all did It wouldn't be so local to get it repaired.