Thread: Building a new AMD system, thoughts?

I've helped alot of people set up systems for Digi001 on the Windows platform and I've read alot of info on the Nuendo site. Here is a system that is kicking butt right now with Digi001 and PTLE 5.1.1 and is popular with the Nuendo crowd as well.

For the price, it is hard to beat the AMD761 chipset boards. The GA7DX or the A7M266 with a separate Promise ATA100 TX2 controller card or the GA7DXR that has onboard Promise controller.

Not sure if the dual processor board is worth the extra change at this point given the fact that most Nuendo users are not seeing the big performance improvement that I would expect. I would just get a faster CPU XP1800+ or higher with the single processor motherboard.

Here is a thread on the DUC that I started for building a high end DAW for under 900.00:

I used the GA7DX as it is one of our top performers, and is the least expensive of the top performers. Add about 20.00 for the A7M266. This should get you 24 Audio tracks + 18 Aux. tracks with 5 plugins per track for a total of 210 plugins if tweeked correctly. That is 70-120% better performance than Mac G4 and P3 or P4 systems with rock solid stability. These are all top quality components proven to work with Digi001.

BLACK EVERCASE E4252B005 ATX MID Tower Case 25.00

Enermax Adjustable 8CM case cooling fan 8.00

ENERMAX EG365P-VE (FCA) 350W PSU 73.00

Volcano 7 Heatsink/Fan XP1800+ and higher, 27db noise 16.00

Giga-Byte GA-7DX+ motherboard 69.00

AMD XP 1800 138.00

Micron 512MB PC2100 DDR SDRAM 135.00

Matrox G450 Dual Video Card 48.00

IBM 60GXP 40GB ATA100 7200rpm 2 @ 79.00 each = 158.00

Promise ATA100 TX2 Controller Card 23.00

Teac 1.44MB 3.5 Inch Floppy Drive # FD235HFB291 9.00

PLEXTOR PX-W2410TA/SW 24x10x40 CDRW 131.00

Total: $833.00 (not including shipping)

Prices taken from www.pricewatch.com and www.newegg.com

Don't forget to get some Artic Silver paste for applying between the heatsink and CPU. Remember to apply only a thin layer. Don't gob it on! Some heatsinks come with their own paste.

Here is a step by step guide on building your own PC: http://www.pcmech.com/byopc/index.htm

Hope that helps out the newbies here and those looking to upgrade.

Updated 2/17/02

Allen :w: