just ordered this system

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any thoughts or ideas? tips?

AMD Athlon XP 1800
Asus A7M266 mobo
512MB Samsung 2100 DDR RAM
Maxtor 20 gig (system drive)
Maxtor 80 gig (audio drive) (7200 rpm)
DVD-ROM
LG CD-RW
voodoo 3 2000

will be using M-Audio Delta 44

if i can get an IDE controller, i will add a zip drive and a backup hard drive.

running WinXP Pro
 
If you just ordered it, wouldn't it be a tad too late for tips now?;)

It looks like a killer syste though. I'd skip the ZIP drive though. I never found them useful, especially now when CDRW are around.
 
Like the man said, great system.
You might want to do a search about using XP on the drive you will be using as your studio.

I am assuming your gonna use the 80 gig as "the studio"
If so run your system as a dual boot and use Win 2000 on the studio's drive.

Forget the zip drive and spend the money elsewhere. CDRW beats it all round on a bang per buck basis.


Take a look at the "sub $1000" post in this section.

Alan.
(By the way, I to have XP pro and have chosen to sit on it until there is more info and people have spent some time using it in a DAW environment. Later when all the niggles are know and tweaks available I'll go for it, right now its just "too new")
 
The only thing i would have done different would have been to get two audio drives (2 x 40gb instead of 1 x 80gb) and RAID0 them so that one drive reads while the other writes.

ps.
i just got a 1.2ghz, 512mb ram, 48g HD laptop (Dell) running windows XP for christmas. I'm going to get the VxPocket so I can do mobile recording on it.
 
thanks for the comments... i already have the zip drive and i use it to transfer smaller files quite ofetn, so that is why i still use it. CD-RW will be used to backup larger projects and so on. the two 40 gig drive thing was a good idea. but i think all will go well, i won't be needing to record 20 tracks at a time while playing back another 50...

about xp... program i use (samplitude) works well with XP, and m-audio has drivers for XP. if it doesn't work then i will go win2k.
 
That Asus board is great, I've got one with the 760 chipset sitting here, but according to everything I'm reading, and I mean EVERYTHING, the KT266a chipset is killing everything out there right now. I'd consider swapping the boards out for one with a KT266a chipset, very seriously. Also, will the Asus board take advantage of the Athlon XP's added features? Might wanna double check that one... otherwise, it'll be a fat system, I just think maybe a diff mobo is in order considering you can save $30 going with something like the Epox 8kha+ mobo and possibly improve performance quite a bit. Just a thought.
 
after reading all on via chipsets i decided not to go with it. i have also heard of delta/via clashes. so amd 761 best way for me i guess.

i will have to flash the asus board with the latest bios so that it can use the XP features.
 
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