thanks for your comments Andrew- >hi, im also looking at purchasing a new pc strictly for audio use. i was >wondering what consideration you gave to the hard drive. are "silent" drives >(i think the seagate barracuda is advertised as such) necessary?
Im running a 10,000 RPM SCSI Ultra 160 Seagate Barricuda on my current box. It's definately fast, but to be, honest im able to work off my 6400 RPM IDE Drive with a barely noticeable difference in speed, # of tracks, or substantial limitations. I think my machine just hits the RAM/CPU bottleneck well before it reaches the limitations of either drive. >ive got friends who are sufferring problems with cubase under xp, and in >general drivers are more common for 2k at the moment. saying that, i am >installing 98se on my new pc - i believe it to be more stable and support 98se more stable than XP??? 98 is NOT a stable operating system....i dont know what OS you're currently running, but personally i have to reboot my 98 box 5-6 times a day (at least). You usually have to work a little harder to lock up XP or 2000. I think 2K is where it's at for me, even tho XP looks all nice and shiny n stuff. =) >more programs (because of hardware specific drivers) than xp. dx/vstx >plugins should not behave any differently under either of those 3 systems >(perhaps a little faster on 2k?). >> I've used Pentium systems since the 90 mhz, but i think im open to Athalon >> or Celeron systems this time around as price is definately a concern. >celeron is a pentium system :-) while amd chips are speedy, they only nose >ahead of intel in graphics related performance. intel chips are still >superior for maths intensive apps (ie all music software), but if price >matters that much athlon is probably is your chip. A Celeron is definately NOT a Pentium, but I believe you meant that Celeron is also an Intel chip =). Thanks for the tip on the Athlon tho, I think im leaning in that direction as it still seems to offer the best cost/performace ratio. >merry christmas! likewise! --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Drum&Bass Arena Producers Discussion List http://www.breakbeat.co.uk You are currently subscribed to dnb-prod as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
