Dusty,
You should ask OPUS about this in the Computing Forum. General consensus; an ASUS MOBO with Intel "Northwood" chips is the top configuration. As much ram as you can get is best. I am running 1 gig of ram. Hop over the Computing Forum and check with the "God Father" of DAW’s , OPUS. He won't steer you wrong! ..... Fats
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I am up in the air about using AMD or Intel. A dual-processor configuration is not necessarily needed. Most programs do not take advantage of the 2 processors. Pro Tools will not recognize the 2nd processor. Emagic Logic is the only program that I know that will take advantage of the dual processors, but I only know this works on the Mac platform. Look for processors that have a high level 2 cache, memory on the processor. My AMD XP processor has for example 384 K of memory on the processor. Higher end processors for the PC, have a cache of 2 MB or more. If you look at Macs, you will see that a majority of them have a high level 2 cache.

I like my Carillon AC-1. I'm running a P4, but I see they now offer Xeon's also.

Mike G.

Originally posted by Sonicsound:

Pro Tools will not recognize the 2nd processor. Emagic Logic is the only program that I know that will take advantage of the dual processors, but I only know this works on the Mac platform

For the moment, but as PT 6 will be out halfway this year dual CPU support is going to be a reaity (in Digi's words), so if somebody is assembling a new PC for DAW use maybe worth thinking a little ahead and get a dual CPU system that will have power to waste for years, before becoming obsolete; a dual AMD 2800 XP must be something comparable to a TDM system (power-wise), but for a fraction of the price, add a few fast ATA 100 or firewire drives, a healty dose of ram and maybe an IDE controller and you have a killer machine that I think won't impose you limits on power demand (unless you do 150 tracks film mixing ;) ).

Just my thought

L.G.