| ASUS motherboards, for myself I won’t buy any others, these are solid.
I also only run Corsair match pair memory.
I notice your case and you don’t mention any “quiet fans” or special
noise reduction stuff. Depending on where you plan on placing the system.
, in separate room, in noise reduction box, etc, you may not be happy with standard fan noise in the studio.
(If running drives in raid mode)
I have 4 systems with Raptor drives running (two system using dual raptors in raid mode). Be sure you get latest drivers. Also be aware that some system still
require that you have a “floppy drive” to install the raid drivers if you
need to update them. I had a bit of a go around with BIOS/DRIVER/XP PRO
conflicts between XP, raid on board chip and intel raid driver software.
(I see you mention Pro X64, which may not have the same problem).
Also are these 2 drives in raid mode, or is one for system programs and one
for audio files which I would highly recommend. In any case I have
found much better results running programs files on one drive. And the
audio stuff off of another drive (or raid pair).
Another comment: I’m not aware of any “studio” software that needs
a video card with 256MB of video ram. I may be missing something
but 128MB should be good and save some bucks. (If you want to also play
everquest and other games on the same system go for 256MB) But I don’t
play video games on my studio computers, too much chance for driver conflicts or
other problems. By the way both windows xp and the video card you mention will already drive two monitors.
Also what about disk/project backup. External USB, or what?. For me I would not run
a system without a way of backing up stuff. Make it fast or if you’re like
me you’ll find yourself skipping backups cause they take too long.
Don’t forget a good UPS.
Hope this helps in some fashion. |