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Hey guys,

I am on the verge of building a DAW from scratch. Just wondering whether anyone has done the same recently and can tell me which intel motherboard would be ideal for audio, supporting i7 and xeon processors. I will be using with Cubase heaps of virtual instruments also (onmisphere, trillian, komplete and guitar rig 4 to name a few) so any recommendation regarding the motherboard, cpu and ram would be great.

Cheers,
Spiro

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hueseph Mon, 07/05/2010 - 21:24

Not sure. I've been using AMD for the past 5 years. I wouldn't scrimp on it though.

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theycallmebrown Tue, 07/13/2010 - 10:03

asus is great but DO NOT buy the cheap on sale version from newegg.com or whatever. their cheap motherboards are just that. CHEAP. i work at a computer repair shop and have had the same dude bring his computer 4 times in the last 6 months. their warranty ended at 6 months and his broke after 7 months and he was sol. after replacing it with 4 subpar asus motherboards he junked his system that he payed over 600 for and bought a new one. in actuallity, intell is a a bit faster yes, but not 1000 bucks faster than amd. i would get AMD's most expensive processor, matched with the most expensive mobo that will fit it. thats just how it is.

theycallmebrown Tue, 07/13/2010 - 12:06

for a processor this is what you want to go with.
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something like this would be a good deal.

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lambchop Tue, 07/13/2010 - 13:45

Wow! That looks cool! I'm starting to think that maybe it's time for me to build a new DAW using that. Hey, if you don't mind here's another question. When I built my last DAW I used an ASUS board (PB6 Deluxe if memory serves me) with an intel processor. I didn't overclock it because I didn't know if that would screw me up when I recorded in Cubase. So; is it okay to overclock a DAW?

theycallmebrown Tue, 07/13/2010 - 14:01

anytime you overclock your system you run into the issue of overheating, and subsequently needing to run more fans, and that means more noise. besides system instability. if you know what your doing go for it, but with this processor... speed will not be the bottleneck. buy a SSD for the c drive and ONLY store programs and the operating system on it. then take a WD caviar black or (insert favorite drive here) drive for data storage. then you hit the barrier of bits.... 64 or 32? well, seeing as your DAW would need to process everything in 64 bits then "dither" it down to 16 or whatever your session is at there could be some coloration. but the toss up is if you go 32 bit.. you are capped at about 3.5 gigs of ram. other things are more important to consider than overclocking at this point. if you have protools.. forget about this processor, it still to the best of my knowledge only supports two cores.

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