Hey Andy,
Congrats on the new machine, and no, I never mind
being called out especially on advice I give, whether bad or good.
I try very hard to give only good advice as my reputation depends on it.
I would have liked to see you get a daw, but if
you had to get a cookie cutter machine, a Dell is
probably the best of that off the shelf stuff.
But they do tend to bundle a lot of ram and
processor hogging junk on it, and they certainly
aren't optimized for daw use, but anything is better than what you had.
Excepting maybe a netbook 'grin'.
4 gigs is a reasonable amount of memory for that machine.
Sonar should be fine with that, and windows 7 too.
YOu can find all the relevant specs over at
cakewalk.com
my built to order daw only has 6 gigs in it.
My wife's i5 machine which is also configured as
a daw by the good Jim Roseberry over at studiocat.com
aka perfect audio has 4 gigs in it just like yours.
You must realize though, that memory isn't the
only consideration when it comes to a perfectly working daw.
Processor, motherboard, chipset, pci timing
latency, what processes are running, bios
settings, and tons of other stuff i won't go in
to here are all part of the equation.
these things are picky.
Also I know you to be running a delta 10 10, one of my favorite old interfaces.
Unfortunately, m-audio more or less abandoned
support for these venerable old interfaces with the advent of windows 7.
it seems to have something to do with the timing chips on the card,
some are getting better performance using another
clock source, but for that reason, I'm not using
my beloved delta cards under w7 but the mackie onyx 1640i.
There are other less expensive options.
And not everyone is having trouble, so you might luck out.
At any rate,
enjoy your new machine, it must seem like your
soaring after being on the old computer and dealing with it.
YOu should be able to get a lot more work done.
and, bad bad, spank spank,
go get you an external drive, or start burning
those backups to removable media or something.
No excuse to loose all your stuff.
Warmest regards.
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Just so I have it on hand, does anybody know
what the recommended amount of memory/CPU on a
computer should be to run Sonar 8.5.3 Producer
at a useful/practicle level without having
timing/skipping or caching issues is? Some of
you might remember that I had a well
cluncky/junky EMachines T6212 which had 512MB of
memory w/ 128MB of it shared with video and an
AMD64 1.99 (3200+ processor running XP home.
Chris Bell (sorry for calling you out) would
always pretty much tell me that basically a lot
of my problems with recording happen to have
been the computer I had no way in the world it
would keep up to the demands of a real DAW. Of
course I never listened well, I did, but never
really acted on it. Everybody might be thrilled
to know that the old nag (computer) has uh
um
decided to take a very large plunge into the
very deep river to heaven. R.I.P old computer! Good riddens!
Anyways, this trip to wherever it decided to
take cost me everything. I lost everything.
Projects, files, key codes you name it I lost
it. Even my *gulp* backups? Oh well
Guess I
will have to start over from the beginning (again).
Now, I have a new computer. Its name is monster. This is what it looks like:
Component
Details
Subscore
Base score
Processor
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
5.9
4.5
Determined by lowest subscore
Memory (RAM)
4.00 GB
5.9
Graphics
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI
5.6
Gaming graphics
2014 MB Total available graphics memory
4.5
Primary hard disk
76GB Free (149GB Total)
5.7
Windows 7 Professional
System
Manufacturer
Dell Inc.
Model
Precision WorkStation 390
Total amount of system memory
4.00 GB RAM
System type
64-bit operating system
Number of processor cores
2
Storage
Total size of hard disk(s)
149 GB
Disk partition (C:)
76 GB Free (149 GB Total)
Media drive (D:)
CD/DVD
Graphics
Display adapter type
NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI
Total available graphics memory
2014 MB
Dedicated graphics memory
256 MB
Dedicated system memory
0 MB
Shared system memory
1758 MB
Display adapter driver version
8.17.12.5896
Primary monitor resolution
1024x768
Secondary monitor resolution
1024x768
DirectX version
DirectX 9.0 or better
Network
Network Adapter
Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit Controller
Do you think this will be able to handle the real world of recording and DAWs?
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