What computer to buy-I will buy you all lunch

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Waiting On The Man

Thanks for all the great advice! I am itching to go. I am just waiting to hear from my computer man, to see if he can build one for me within my budget. If not, I am going for it. Keep the ideas coming. I am actually beginning to understand some of this jargon! Walter
 
vesuvius

from another computer engineer. looks like a nice confign.
 
Re: marquis

manning1 said:
marquis. sorry but i dont agree about the end of 98.
yes ms will drop support. however its good for quite a few years yet. ...............
if support is dropped , guranteed other players will step in to fill the breach. anyway strategically it might be a good idea to stay 98 now with PROVEN DRIVERS then wait
for XP's successor longhorn to shake out and be nice and stable then buy that. one reason i stayed away from XP, marquis in the early stages was a new OS always takes time to shake down and new sound card and other peripherals driver versions sometimes lag a new OS introduction.
in summary - always lag the technology curve with proven solutions and let the other guy get arrows in the back.
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I'm with Marquis on this one.
MS have already dropped support for 98. No updates, no patches, no fixes available from their site anymore. There may be someone out there somewhere but I don't know of anyone else filling the breach.
I agree with your comment about the technology curve but XP has been around a while now, it's faster than 98 and more stable.

When I first installed my Delta 44 under 98, I got cracks, pops, untold unwanted noise. Upgraded to XP and all the problems disappeared. I know this was probably a combination of my Athlon cpu, VIA chipset and 98, but it runs sweet now with XP.
 
bh

yup the chipset bh.
but a tip. if windows emulation ever gets going full blown under linux youll never have to worry again. the processors in the future will be fast enough to blow through the emulation layers.
i saw a linux distro the other day got me excited for the first time in years. and being a ce trained and true takes a lot to get
me excited. didnt even need to load the os on the hd.
pretty soon once the cd/dvd drives are fast enough and with faster busess , wont even need to load ANY app or OS on hd.
do you see where this is headed bh ?
the wind is rustling in the trees.......watch for some huge
upsets in the market caused by technology.
 
Well I will be jumping for joy the day the OS can be run from ROM!!! :) Then those freak virus programmers will finally be destroyed...

Until then there's always Serial ATA! Those drives haul so much bootie when implimented as a stripe set, I almost fell out of my chair when I couldn't see the file list going by on the first half of windows setup and before I knew it it was restarting. I have installed windows on thousands of PC's since Windows 3.1, and I have never seen a drive so fast in all my days.
 
Hi Everyone: I just got a price from our tech to build a computer. It was way out of my budget. The good new is this. While getting my allergy shot yesterday, I ran into a friend who has built several computers for his wifes business. I told him I was going to jump in and build one myself. He told me of a small local company that he has consulted with that has unbelievable customer support, and could build what I need at not much more than what I would pay doing it myself. He said he uses them now instead of building. I know this guy from flying r/c gliders, and he is such a precise a builder, that he could build for NASA! If he reccommends them, I am going asap. I printed up all of your suggestions and am going by there this afternoon to see what I can work out. I will look like a real computer guru with all your ideas, until I open my mouth......... I will keep you informed.
Thanks again!
Walter
 
walter.

just be aware before your final decision that the cheap amd
processors have excellent floating point performance.
i say amd 2500 +. best value.
also read some articles ive posted called "newbies" in the newbies section. they will save you a lot of time.
 
While building a recording PC on a budjet you should definetly take a look at what's going on in the Linux audio world at the moment. As you all know the OS is free and there's some serious audio software available for Linux for free as well.

Background info.
http://www.agnula.org/documentation/dp_tutorials/alsa_jack_ladspa/

I installed my first Linux box using the latest Fedora Core 1 (from www.redhat.com) disto a week a go and since then I've been pretty excited about the new and cost effective possibilities that Linux has to offer for homerecording enthusiasts. I haven't been able to configure the Ardour multitrack software for my system yet but what I've heard it's suppossed to offer almost ProTools like functionality.

The best part about the Linux (other that being free) is that by recompiling the kernel it's easily configured to include just the neccessary stuff for YOUR hardware to squeeze out the last bit of computing power inside of your machine.
 
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