kay when i built my PC I thought I was building a awsome DAW now Im still working with onboard sound that maybe the problem.but things seem slow/glitchy not just in production apps but in general.
Heres my specs
P4P800-E Deluxe mobo
P4 3.0 HT
1024 mb Dual Channel DDR 400 Ram
two 200gb hd's in a RAID 1 config
Radeon 9800 pro
Sony 530A dvd/CD burner/player combo(supports all formats -,+,R,RW)
nice case blah,blah,blah
why is my pimp PC running like a welfare case?
I've allways been ontop of upkeeping my pc ie virus scans/defragment/disk clean up,etc
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I agree that sound card can't be helping, HT could be an issue a
I agree that sound card can't be helping, HT could be an issue and the AV software isn't doing you any good either.
You mentioned a RAID 1 configuration, adding a drive for programs and keeping your 200 GB drives mirrored for audio only would give you great performance and a saftey net as well.
RAID 1 is a mirrored array and is a good choice for audio because all of your data is copied to both drives. If one drive fails you still have a copy of all of your data. However it does little to nothing for performance. In order to see any performance gains your controller must support dual concurrent reads.
RAID 0 is a striped array and offers good performance gains but at the expense of all of your data being lost if the array gets out of sync or a drive fails.
I'd say do the tweaks, kill the AV and HT, get a proper souncard and add a drive for programs and you'll have the killer DAW you thought you had.
onboard audio would be one thing, having HT enabled might be ano
onboard audio would be one thing,
having HT enabled might be another.
doing all the tweaks for audio would be good
http://recording.org/resources/recording-computers.300/
Scott
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