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DigitalDon
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Anyone read this article yet? This is the latest EQ Magazine. The article is called "Build the Ultimate Music/Recording PC designed by Pete Leoni. It caught my eye because on the front cover is the same rackmount case I bought off eBay for $98.
He uses a Tyan S2460 (dual CPU) motherboard, two AMD MP 2000 processors, two 512MB DDR ECC Registered memory sticks, MSI Geforce 4 MX440 Dual Head video card, Maxtor 40GB and 80GB hard drives and Enermax 430W Whisper Quiet power supply. The motherboard uses AMD 760 series chipset. My soundboard (Aardvark Q10) can't work with the AMD 750 series but their support site says the 760 chipset will work.
He also uses Windows XP.
I know the dual processor horse has been beat a few times already but this is an interesting article. Kinda struck me strange though. He advises putting both the OS drive and audio drive on the same controller as master/slave. Says the CD burner should be on the other controller because it can cause slower access to your hard drive. Seems like if you had a lot of tracks going, plugins active, etc you wouldn't want the drives switching back and forth sharing controller time. I might be completely in left field here.
It's not a bad article since he goes step by step in building the whole thing. Good for you guys who are a little leary about building a DAW.
Opinions anyone?
DD
He uses a Tyan S2460 (dual CPU) motherboard, two AMD MP 2000 processors, two 512MB DDR ECC Registered memory sticks, MSI Geforce 4 MX440 Dual Head video card, Maxtor 40GB and 80GB hard drives and Enermax 430W Whisper Quiet power supply. The motherboard uses AMD 760 series chipset. My soundboard (Aardvark Q10) can't work with the AMD 750 series but their support site says the 760 chipset will work.
He also uses Windows XP.
I know the dual processor horse has been beat a few times already but this is an interesting article. Kinda struck me strange though. He advises putting both the OS drive and audio drive on the same controller as master/slave. Says the CD burner should be on the other controller because it can cause slower access to your hard drive. Seems like if you had a lot of tracks going, plugins active, etc you wouldn't want the drives switching back and forth sharing controller time. I might be completely in left field here.
It's not a bad article since he goes step by step in building the whole thing. Good for you guys who are a little leary about building a DAW.
Opinions anyone?
DD