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blinddogblues

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Anyone see any problems with any of this?
PENTIUM 4 MOTHERBOARD
New Reliable VIAP4M266 Chipset
ATX 533 FBUS Motherboard
2 DDR 266/333 Slots, 2 SDRAM Slots, UDMA 100
3 PCI slots, a 4X AGP slot and a CNR slot
6 usb ports, 2 front and 4 rear
1 Parallel/Printer Port, 1 Serial Port
Front audio conectors
INTEL PENTIUM 4 2.4 GHz PROCESSOR
533MHz System Bus Speed Socket 478
Hyper Pipelined Technology
NEW 512k Advanced L2 Advanced Transfer Cache!!
128 Bit Enhanced Floating Point Unit
Advanced Dynamic Execution

I will also have 2 7200 rpm hard drives, 1 gig of DDR memory, and Windows XP (Home or Prof., I don't know)
I am using 3 Aardvark Direct Pro 24/96 cards.

Thanks.
 
blinddogblues said:
Anyone see any problems with any of this?
PENTIUM 4 MOTHERBOARD
New Reliable VIAP4M266 Chipset
ATX 533 FBUS Motherboard
2 DDR 266/333 Slots, 2 SDRAM Slots, UDMA 100
3 PCI slots, a 4X AGP slot and a CNR slot
6 usb ports, 2 front and 4 rear
1 Parallel/Printer Port, 1 Serial Port
Front audio conectors
INTEL PENTIUM 4 2.4 GHz PROCESSOR
533MHz System Bus Speed Socket 478
Hyper Pipelined Technology
NEW 512k Advanced L2 Advanced Transfer Cache!!
128 Bit Enhanced Floating Point Unit
Advanced Dynamic Execution

I will also have 2 7200 rpm hard drives, 1 gig of DDR memory, and Windows XP (Home or Prof., I don't know)
I am using 3 Aardvark Direct Pro 24/96 cards.

Thanks.
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What about a video card?
 
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christiaan said:
This chipset has integrated graphics.
S3 Graphics ProSavage8
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Which probably means shared RAM - bad idea.

A decent dualhead card from Matrox or nVidia can be bought for less than $100 and would be a much better option.
 
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brzilian said:
Which probably means shared RAM - bad idea.

A decent dualhead card from Matrox or nVidia can be bought for less than $100 and would be a much better option.
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I will have a full gig of DDR, is the shared ram really going to make a big difference? And if it does, and I really need a separate video card, do I need a different chipset without integrated graphics?

BTW, what is a dualhead video card?
 
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blinddogblues said:
I will have a full gig of DDR, is the shared ram really going to make a big difference? And if it does, and I really need a separate video card, do I need a different chipset without integrated graphics?

BTW, what is a dualhead video card?
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System RAM is usually slower than the VRAM (video RAM) used on video cards. You are also keeping the video data flow on the AGP bus rather than having it share bandwidth with the PCI and motherboard memory bus.

When it comes to DAW's, I usually prefer mobo's without onboard video or sound.

Dualhead cards have 2 outputs so 2 monitors can be connected to a single computer creating more desktop realestate. This is almost a necessity nowadays with DAW software because of the amount of info being displayed at any given time.
 
G card

I would definately get a graphics card...I bought a Geforce 3 a Loooooong time ago (when it was top of the line) and still love it....

Go to pricewatch.com and have a look around....lots of great stuff there.

A video card really makes a difference...
 
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