matthewvandenham
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I was doing some research and thinking on what would be a really powerful PC (not Mac!) for audio recording and I've come to the realization that you want to be sinking your money in to:
-HD quality sound card for high quality playback
-as much DDR3 ram as you can afford. Modern applications thrive on RAM.
-quiet compenents like hard drive, fanless videocards, and high powered (700-750w) silent power supplies.
-sound proofing case
-electricity/power conditioners and power supply backups.
now as long as your mother board can support DD3 and a decent processor that should be a really solid audio and clean sounding audio workstation. Audio application are multithreaded so the new quad core processors will be intensely fast for post processes, but for now if you want to build a really solid recording machine for under a grand you could go with the specs I've just mentioned.
If you go out and buy just a top of the line gaming machine, or basic workstartoin for instances, you're not thinking like an audio engineer. invest in to the ram and silent components. the speed of your machines isn't as important as it's stability and the cleanliness of your chain. keep it all HD!
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AUdIoCoUrSeS
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Um, is that your company,or forum, are you working for them?
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matthewvandenham
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I wish! 
I just really love reading and dreaming of the perfect rig for recording music. |
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matthewvandenham
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http://www.punkottawa.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=80470
Please check out that thread and click the link for the torrent. I ran in to this torrent a few hours ago...it is the fastest and most stable version of windows xp sp3 yet. It's incredible, the author has remove all of the annoyances or marketing/advertisements in the setup stages. The entire process is very 'executive' in style. If you are a power user and want the most out of XP SP3 you should try that out! I highly recommend. Very very responsive. no frills no bs |
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Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:22 am |
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AUdIoCoUrSeS
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We do not support the use of illegal software on this forum.
I would imagine the torrent is not legal.
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wailingalleycat
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in an ideal world i wouldnt worry about how noisy my computer is because it would be located in a different room.
also power stability is iargely irrelevant if you are using digital interconnect. |
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Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:34 pm |
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wolfmeister
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well 2 things
1. there's no such thing as 'HD audio'
2. telling people to get as much ram as they can afford then talking about xp torrents - xp cant use 'as much ram as you can afford' |
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