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anonymous 21 November 2002

Ok, so this is sorta OT but I'd like to know what other people are running.
Here's what I'd like to know... no matter how fast/slow your system is please let us know the following information:

1. Motherboard
2. Processor type/speed
3. memory
4. hard drive(s) size, specs (ie. Ultra33, Ultra 66, etc.)
5. Operating system
6. Main recording software (i.e. Cakewalk, n-Tracks, CEP, etc.)
7. Make a new 44,100 16 bit stereo file, create 10 minutes of silence and SAVE it as a .wav file. Tell us how long it took to save.

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KurtFoster Thu, 11/21/2002 - 09:26

Asus A7M266-D
Dual AMD 1800+ (1.53MHz)
2 / 512 Mb 2100 ECC registered DDR
2 / 80 Gigabyte Western Digital ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drives (one removable)
formatted NTFS. Running Windows XP Pro and Cubase VST 5.1 / as a dedicated DAW. No other functions or programs. No Internet, no modem. Just Windows, Power DVD, IN CD, Adobe Acrobat reader (for the Cubase manual) and Cubase installed….. runs a 16 track song with eq's comps verbs and mastering at 10% CPU load. I'm still learning the software (computard!) and I haven't learned how to erase / delete files yet so I don't want to run the test. As soon as I get to learn the deletes I'll run the test and edit this post with the results …… Fats

Opus2000 Thu, 11/21/2002 - 10:54

1. Motherboard
Asus P4B266
2. Processor type/speed
P4 2.0Ghz(overclocked to 2.6Ghz)
3. memory
1GB PC2100 DDR 266
4. hard drive(s) size, specs (ie. Ultra33, Ultra 66, etc.)
Maxtor 15GB 7200RPM ATA100 for OS(running on UDAM5)
Western Digital JB 80GBx2 with 8MB Cache both in Kingwin Removable IDE trays ATA100(running on UDMA5)
5. Operating system
Windows XP Pro

I will do the tesy tonight sometime as I am at work and do not have my system here.

Opus

anonymous Thu, 11/21/2002 - 12:00

alrighty, hold onto your hats gearheads...

gigabyte k7 motherboard (don't remember which one, but stay away from it...) with the now infamous kt133 via chipset... uh-huh...

Athlon 1ghz (geeze, 1ghz used to seem so fast...) with the incredible 100fsb yeah, baby...

Ram- kingston 256 pc133... but wait there's more! 128 stick of something pc133, and another 128 pc133 even more generic... yep, a deffinate no-no... works, though...

Matrox 30gig ata100 partitioned in two for os/apps (14 gigs) and the rest as aux storage...

Matrox 40gig drive for all of my fine audio...

The cheapest case I could afford

A 350 watt p/s just this side of no-name...

I can't remember which cd-rw drive I have, but don't buy it either... no cd text support. does a good job as long as everything is done at 1x write... 2x will usually work but I'm into consistency and not coasters...

Asus cd-rom (good little drive...)

Delta 44 (for personal recording it does all I need it to)

Midisport 4x4 (works for me, but what I do with midi is pretty rudamentary from most folks standpoint)

Windows 98se (upgrade even, not even a clean install...)

Been running flawlessly (after many initial problems) for three years now...

Top that you suckers... :roll:

anonymous Thu, 11/21/2002 - 21:53

HOws this for bragging!!! ha ha ha

p4t533-c
p4 2.4 533fsb
512 rdram 1066mhz
80gb wd + removable hard drives
gforce4 mx440
motu 2408
motu midi express
mackie d8b
avalon vt737
2 xt20's
1 lx20
panasonic dat
tascam cdrw-5000
tascam 302
yamaha ns10's
jbl lsr28p's
nuendo
cubase sx
wavelab
waves gold bundle
triton
korg n364
B.L.U.E. Blue Berry
AKG C414
Rode NT1
dataSYNC2
high resolution projector
movie screen
blue screen

Opus2000 Fri, 11/22/2002 - 07:41

Oh...we're going full on bragging now...I see...
Apogee Trak2, Mackie 1402VLZ Pro, KRK V4's, Marshall Electronics 603S Matched Pair Condensors, Shure SM58, AKG D112, Soon to be BLUE Baby Bottle(CAN'T WAIT!), Nuendo 1.6, Cubase SX 1.05, Waves Gold Bundle, TC Native Plugins, Drumagog, dB Audio Ware Dynamics Processor, Wavelab 4.0, NI B4, NI Pro52 and Pro53, Waldorf PPG, Reason 2.0, Rebirth 1.0, Sampletank, T-Racks, UAD-1, TC Power Core, RME 9652, Yamaha NS10's, Hafler P1000 Power Amp, Fender Strat, Gibson Epiphone Spotlight(rare Paul Reed Smith knock-off!), Fender Ultimate Reverb Amp, Digitech RP-7, Roland JP8000, Yamaha Clavinova.
Whew..... :p
Opus

KurtFoster Fri, 11/22/2002 - 08:22

Full brag!!! To accompany the before stated computer……
2 ADAT AI 3 interfaces (18 in/out)
3 Haffler P3000's
Yamaha NS 10's
Tannoy DMT 12's
Auratones
Neumann U87i
AKG C12a
4 AKG 451's ( vintage not re issue)
2 AKG 460's
3 AKG D112's
2 AT 4033's
6 AT pro 35's
2 AT 11's
1 AT 10
Shure SM 7a
6 SM57's
4 SM58's
3 Sennheiser 421's
Astatic crystal mic
2 Amek Neve 9098 mic pre / eq's
2 Drawmer DS 404
Dynamite stereo comp / gate / de esser
2 Alesis 3066 stereo comps
DBX 266 (a fave!)
Manley EL OP
2 UREI LA 4's
UREI 1178
Lexicon PCM 60
Lexicon PCM 70
Lexicon PCM 80
Eventide HD 3000 SE
Yamaha SPX 90
Alesis Midiverb II
Alesis Midiverb 4
AlesisQuadraverb
MXR 1500 Delay
ART FXR
Antares ATR-1 (ATR stand for "Automated Talent Recovery".)

I'll stop here and not list guitars, amps, Bass amps and Drums. I'm sure there's more but I can't think of it right now, I feel sooo dirty and cheap putting it all on the street like this! Man, I'm a slut! ……… Fats

chrisperra Tue, 11/26/2002 - 01:58

i have the dreaded dell.... ooooohhhh :eek:

intel p4 1.8
samsung sp4004h 40 gig hard drive
st 380021a 80 gig hard drive? i don't know what this is.
lite on lite 24102m dvd/cdr cdrw
samsung dvd rom sd -616

512 rd ram
cubase sx
wavelab 4
uad 1 card

did the test , 35 seconds the first time with antivirus on, 28 seconds with it off

Opus2000 Tue, 11/26/2002 - 18:26

Wait a gosh darn minute here.....those who did the test....you did a TEN MINUTE...STEREO TRACK...RECORDED SILENCE FOR TEN MINUTES...AND IT TOOK LESS THAN A MINUTE? Or did you just add silence? I need to know as my system is optimized to the friggen gills and hell and beyond.....
I need to know exactly what you did and if you did what I did...record enabled a stereo track and pressed record for 10 minutes...set the markers and did a stereo interleaved export audio bounce? Is this not what the test was?
Opus :confused:

anonymous Tue, 11/26/2002 - 20:57

Ok, something's wrong here. I open a new project, arm 1 stereo track, Totally waste 10 minutes recording nothing(lol), export to a stereo .wav file. I end up with "Silence Test.wav" which is 103,412kb about 18 seconds later. Am I doing this right?

Oh yeah...
Mainboard - MSI mainboard model MS-6380 VIA KT266 chipset
Processor - AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
Memeory - 2x 256MB DDR-SDRAM
Hard disks - 2x Maxtor 40 gig HDD 7200rpm
Operating System - Windows XP Pro
Software - Sonar 2.0XL, Soundforge 6.0, T-Racks, Fruityloops 3.4
Others - Soundblabber Gaudigy, Samson Q-Mic, Gibson LP Studio, Rhodes Style Jackson, Line 6 Vetta HD(with FBX Foot controller), Fernandez Bass(4-string), and last but not least, my big ten inch.................Record of a band that plays the blues lol

I know my rig ain't much. I've been thinking of upgrading to something like [[url=http://[/URL]="http://bbspot.com/N…"]this[/]="http://bbspot.com/N…"]this[/].

Opus2000 Tue, 12/03/2002 - 18:50

Ok...I must have had a wierd system issue that night I did that test. I did it kind of quickly as my fiance was over and we were about to go out to dinner...I just redid it and a couple of tests and each one varied from 20-25 seconds....whew! I was beginning to think I was reaaalllllly dumb or something here! lmao!
Opus :D

anonymous Thu, 12/19/2002 - 06:46

SYSTEM

1 - Tyan S2460
2 - AMD Athon MP 1800
2 - 512MB Samsung ECC Registered RAM
1 - 40G Maxtor (6Y040L0 OEM) OS and Apps
1 - 80G Maxtor (6Y080L0 OEM) Audio
2 - 9G Seagate SCSI drives (in swap aluminum drive trays)
1 - Plextor CDRW
1 - Aardvark 24/96
1 - Matrox G450 Dual Head Graphics Acc. Card
1 - Adaptec SCSI controller
1 - Rackmount Server case with quiet fans
1 - Enermax Whisper PSU- EG651P adjustable speed
1 - DS Sound Dampening Treatment
1 - Optimized Windows XP Pro with highly modified BIOS, Registry, and Settings. Manually set IRQs.

* this is a budget minded system with proven stability
**continuing to experiment with Passive and Liquid Cooling as well as SilentDrive enclosures to improve sound treatment

APPS:

Currently using Sonar XL, though I've used Cubase in past versions and I think I'm settled on making Cubase SX my "go forward" app.

Various other apps and plugins

I'll post again when I've run your test.

anonymous Thu, 12/26/2002 - 18:40

Hi All,

I've been lurking here long enough, time to dive in and get involved..

My System:
1. Motherboard: SuperMicro P3TDE6
2. Processor type/speed: Dual Intel PIII Tualatin-S 1.4 Ghz.
3. memory: 512 MB Transend Registered ECC SDRAM.
Dual Channel Configuration.
4. Hard drive(s) 20GB IBM Deskstar ATA100/7200 System HD, 18GB Seagate Barracuda U160/7200 SCSI HD for Samples,i.e Halion , Seagate Cheetah U160/10,000 SCSI for Audio.
5. Operating system: Win XP PRO
6. Main recording software: Cubase SX, Wavelab 4.0.

Other Spec:Matrox G450, Dual Adaptec Ultra 160 SCSI, UAD1, Powercore, Echo Mia, Midex 8 ,

More Horsepower than I know what to do with, has been stable as a rock since day dot, max track count unknown, with 80 + being easily handled without any HD stress whats so ever, have still not managed to even come close to tapping out CPU overhead,the UAD1 and Powercore help out in that department obviously..

I'll run the test with the stereo wavefile when I get a spare 10 Minutes, Can't peronally see what it is benching except HD write speed ? !!

Cheers

J.D

SonOfSmawg Tue, 01/07/2003 - 23:20

Stay away from nForce2 chipset motherboards, at least for a while. The drivers are gawdawful, and people are up in arms about them. If you really want to build an Athlon machine for DAW, use an AMD-chipset Tyan. Believe me, I've done the homework, and there really aren't ANY other acceptable Athlon options.
Even though I'm an "AMD Man", I highly recommend that you go with a P4 for DAW recording, for stability and compatibility.

anonymous Sun, 01/12/2003 - 22:28

Originally posted by luvdldy:

1. Motherboard

Asus A7N8X Deluxe

2. Processor type/speed

Athlon XP 2700

3. memory

2 X 256 MB PC3200 DDR DRAM (Samsung)

4. hard drive(s) size, specs (ie. Ultra33, Ultra 66, etc.)

System (C) Drive: Maxtor 60 GB, 7,200 RPM ATA 100
Audio (D) Drive: Seagate 80 GB, 7,200 RPM ATA 100

5. Operating system

Windows XP Home

6. Main recording software (i.e. Cakewalk, n-Tracks, CEP, etc.)

Pro Tools 5.3.2, Sonar and Logic Platinum

7. Make a new 44,100 16 bit stereo file, create 10 minutes of silence and SAVE it as a .wav file. Tell us how long it took to save.

Can't help you there, sorry. Pro Tools saves nearly instantaneously... but you'd have to "record" that ten minutes of "silence".

anonymous Fri, 01/17/2003 - 03:27

Are we talkin how long it will take to SAVE the finished wave file.

it so..What an irrelevant test if ever there was one.

Results could depend on so much HDD stuff too.
to test fairly you should stipulate saving to partituion at front[outside] of HDD that is low level formatted with nothing in it. !!!!

Maak

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