On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: > I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and > use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). > Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized > for sse2 then get pentium4. If not, then get dual athlon mp. > Get at least 2gb of ram, the faster the better. I always use athlons, > because they work 3 times faster with floating point, but you may not need > that. > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, et wrote: > > just got a very nice deal to build a box (in the next couple of months, > > quality is much more important than fast delivery) to run a sound > > recording studio. I would love to hear suggestions. Budget is to be less > > than $10,000.00 USD delivered, not including (professional) software. or > > sound card (will have an Audigy, but the studio owner has some other card > > he wants in the box along with the Audigy, and that card was over > > $900.00USD. I figure for about that I ought to be able to create a pretty > > nice and fast box. this box should be UFW scsi2 raid I guess, and I would > > love some first hand knowledge of fast-wide scsi2 cards and drives. I am > > also wondering about places I should be looking to check out some quad > > zeon mother boards. thanks this is exactly the kinda discussion I was hoping for. got any good clues as to what chipsets to look for, or stay away from? I think (pretty damn sure) they want a SMP board of some sort.
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
