Need help building a computer system for home recording?? Please help

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I've looked to this website before to pull together components for a computer system but for some reason the store was filled with idiots who said the components were not compatible. they recommended this motherboard set. please let me know if it's any good for my recording needs and offer any other devices u might think would be better. they recommended:

*ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard

*AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2.0GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 89W Processor

*CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

*Eagle Tech CA-DRG-R BLUE Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

i still need to find a compatible PSU, audio and graphics card. I'm pretty sure a good quality 500 W will do. THe guy at the computer store said id need a 1100W LOL. what are your thoughts?
 
Steelo_Brown said:
I've looked to this website before to pull together components for a computer system but for some reason the store was filled with idiots who said the components were not compatible. they recommended this motherboard set. please let me know if it's any good for my recording needs and offer any other devices u might think would be better. they recommended:

*ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition AM2 NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI MCP ATX AMD Motherboard

*AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Windsor 2.0GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 89W Processor

*CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

*Eagle Tech CA-DRG-R BLUE Aluminum ATX Mid Tower Computer Case

i still need to find a compatible PSU, audio and graphics card. I'm pretty sure a good quality 500 W will do. THe guy at the computer store said id need a 1100W LOL. what are your thoughts?
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get as big of a PSU as you can afford, you may find yourself wanted more as you add more on to your computer. no need for 1100w though.

as for the graphics card honestly just get whatever you need to run your operating system. you can get a nice one if you want, but unless your running vista and want aero you arent going to be doing much graphics wise.

i didn't see any hard drives in your list, but many people like to have two hard drives, one for the os, and one for samples/impulses/wavs/plugins.

if you're going firewire you'll want to get a good firewire card, preferably with a TI chipset.

dont worry about the stock soundcard, anything will do if you're going to a have an external interface.


hope some of this helped!
 
thanks alot for the help. what about dual monitor output. I heard that using 2 screens is recommended because of all the clutter. any graphics card recommended for that or is it not necessary? I know the graphics card that comes with the motherboard is a NVIDIA but i dont know if it has a DUAL MONITOR OUTPUT
 
surfmaster said:
as for the graphics card honestly just get whatever you need to run your operating system. you can get a nice one if you want, but unless your running vista and want aero you arent going to be doing much graphics wise.
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This isn't really true. You're going to want something halfway decent for drawing waveforms on the fly, as you don't want that putting a load on the CPU. I've noticed a big difference between chipset graphics and a dedicated card in terms of deep editing and CPU load while tracking. Just a thought.
 
what's the difference between a chipset graphics card and a dedicated card?
 
Basically what I was talking about was integrated graphics (which the board you're looking at doesn't have). This is built onto the chipset of the motherboard, and uses the processor and system memory to render the graphics. A dedicated graphics card, on the other hand, has a built-in processor (GPU) and RAM to render the graphics, which takes the load off of your system and does it much faster. I'd recommend looking at cards with around 256MB of memory at a minimum to guarantee that you won't have any slowdowns during deep editing (main areas I've seen slowdowns are when you are zoomed way in on a waveform and any edit takes around 1-2 seconds to actually show up, or when you're zoomed far in in multitrack view and there is a slight delay between each autoscroll. Doesn't sound like a big thing but it can affect the recorded waves very easily when you're doing 16+ tracks at a time). With cards so cheap nowadays, there's not much of a reason to skimp on it. I have this card and for recording, it does great. Hell, I even play Counterstrike: Source with it and it does over 60fps. Another thing you may want to consider is if you actually need SLI. You can probably cut some cost off the board if you don't.
 
timthetortoise said:
Basically what I was talking about was integrated graphics (which the board you're looking at doesn't have). This is built onto the chipset of the motherboard, and uses the processor and system memory to render the graphics. A dedicated graphics card, on the other hand, has a built-in processor (GPU) and RAM to render the graphics, which takes the load off of your system and does it much faster. I'd recommend looking at cards with around 256MB of memory at a minimum to guarantee that you won't have any slowdowns during deep editing (main areas I've seen slowdowns are when you are zoomed way in on a waveform and any edit takes around 1-2 seconds to actually show up, or when you're zoomed far in in multitrack view and there is a slight delay between each autoscroll. Doesn't sound like a big thing but it can affect the recorded waves very easily when you're doing 16+ tracks at a time). With cards so cheap nowadays, there's not much of a reason to skimp on it. I have this card and for recording, it does great. Hell, I even play Counterstrike: Source with it and it does over 60fps. Another thing you may want to consider is if you actually need SLI. You can probably cut some cost off the board if you don't.
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I totally agree that having a non-integrated graphics card is a good idea. in fact i think its a bad idea to have an integrated one for all those reasons you stated above, but I havent ran into any problems with a reasonably low end graphics card. i just figured that he was going to get a separate graphics card when he asked what kind he should look into.
 
Corsair make some very good PSU's these days - they are re-badged Seasonic I believe. Quality stuff.
 
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