Building a Pc (piece by piece)

[wiz1der]

Originally Posted by memyselfandus

I am going to put together a audio Pc for use with
Rme Fireface 400
Komplete 5
Bfd2
and loads of samples.

Q6600? Running XP32
I want at least 2 hard rives (one for os and one for samples)500gb and 700gb?
A quiet case
Good power supply
standard video card(no video editing)
A quiet fan or cooling system
Great memory
ect

Any advice on what exact parts to get that will match up and work well together?

Do you have a similar setup that works great for you?

q9450 will be out anyday now with a street price of around 330.00 yes its about 50 more than the q6600 but its the way to go. 12mb cache 1333 fsb

with an asus p5k deluxe and you should be good for quite awhile.

[DivineMusic]

Originally Posted by wiz1der

q9450 will be out anyday now with a street price of around 330.00 yes its about 50 more than the q6600 but its the way to go. 12mb cache 1333 fsb

with an asus p5k deluxe and you should be good for quite awhile.

just what i was gonna say.
its worth the extra money

though your not doing video editing, dont half ass on the video card. get a decent ddr2 video card of if you dont mind spending $100 on th video card... i use a GeForce 8600GT ddr3 video card. which is great for graphic and video work too.. but at 100 then a $30 rebate.. its a great card that i wont be upgrading from until they have dual 16core machines LOL

[memyselfandus]

Awesome, sounds good to me guys.
Any recommendations on which ddr2 video card to get?

[memyselfandus]

Any word on the q9450?

[Alex Specht]

The chip looks good, but stay away from the new Asus boards, as Ive heard they have power problems. Asus used to be the best, the only thing I would buy. Now they went downhill.

THe Gigabyte boards look like the best thing going now.

If you are going to spend the money, buy the new mac pro, only 2700.

Sounds High but I looked up the wholesale cost on the XEON chips they are $800 each. The case is very quiet. You can run MS XP on that directly to the CPU (no Windows on top of OSX crap)

I am working on a design to make a 100% silent box, but it is very difficult because of the price of high end power switches, and the heat dissapation issues for CPU, (the 45nm are giving me hope). Also SSD Flash Memory devices are very expensive and unreliable.

my $.02

[memyselfandus]

I just heard about about being able to run windows on mac recently.
Is it pretty stable?

[Alex Specht]

Dude, I posted on your other thread as well.

Originally Posted by Alex Specht

This will not be a quiet box. It will be loud.

Has anyone experimented with running audio over 1GB/Lan

You could have the Network Drive in another room, thus eliminating the noisy hard drives.

Also, there is a power supply that is 100% silent that will put out 400Watts. Newegg.com - FSP Group ZEN 400 ATX 2.2V 400W Fanless Power Supply 110 - 240V cUL, CE, CB, FCC - Retail

So if you are running the HD's in a separate box, then it will take care of your MB, CPU, VGA and 1 or 2 HD. The 45nm chips take less power.

Also, check out the prices at Microcenter

[Tibbon]

I honestly think that for a studio owner, simply the tech support available for pre-assembled computers (plus all the time you put into making it work and configuring it) makes it simply not worth it to build piece by piece.

I've done it this way literally dozens of times, and honestly... at this point I find it far more economical to just go to the Apple store.

[Alex Specht]

Originally Posted by Tibbon

more economical to just go to the Apple store.

Well, this is becoming a reality now that you can run XP, on the MAC (IN THEORY)

XP on a Mac.... ANYONE? BUMP