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anonymous 4 February 2008

Hello everyone, I am new to the forums and I was hoping to get some help with a DAW that I am going to be building.

I have one right now, old, out of date, made with spare parts, and I am not happy with it. Now that tax time is upon us and my nice refund is eminent, I have begun researching for some sweet gear.

I have always noticed how gamer rigs tend to offer the best of best, when it comes to fast everything. I am thinking that one of these gamer type setups would work very well for audio production, but there are so many out there, I have no idea where to start.

Which Motherboard/CPU/RAM combination would work best for Digital Audio Production? Please let me know both your personal opinions and factual standpoints, if you don't mind.

Thanks for reading and more thanks for replying!

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Space Sun, 02/10/2008 - 12:30

http://techreport.com/articles.x/12104/1

Several concerns, if this were of interest to me as a purchase. The above report reads that this board has active chipset cooling for north/south bridge. More noise to an already noisy situation.

I've had Via northbridge on boards that produced crackling and pops. Not the kind that you get at the local movie house here at Exit4 either. Although I have a Via board now that does not produce this issue, it has in the past. So I tend to lean towards Intel when looking at the specs on a board but Via is a lower cost option.

With that in my mind...this board has an NVidia Northbridge. You are on your own as to if this will work in an audio/video recording environment or not.

I would not even entertain the onboard (realtek) audio as part of your recording setup. Disable it and get some mo better audio hardware.

And, you will need a video card. Isn't that funny? Nvidia, known for making video cards, develops a mainboard with...no video.

anonymous Sun, 02/17/2008 - 11:33

Some good websites are tigerdirect.com and newegg.com ...i used to be a computer gaming dork, so I've spent countless hours scouring the internet for cheap prices. There is several tiny factors that make a huge difference, but I wouldn't worry too much about that (i.e. ram latency, etc)

I'd say just be sure to get atleast the following:

Dual core processor
2GB of DDR2 ram (600 or higher)
Sata Harddrive

anonymous Tue, 02/19/2008 - 21:57

StereoBoxJosh wrote: Some good websites are tigerdirect.com and newegg.com ...i used to be a computer gaming dork, so I've spent countless hours scouring the internet for cheap prices. There is several tiny factors that make a huge difference, but I wouldn't worry too much about that (i.e. ram latency, etc)

I'd say just be sure to get atleast the following:

Dual core processor
2GB of DDR2 ram (600 or higher)
Sata Harddrive

Okay, so the other day I ran into a dude who was running a MoBo that had 8 friggin GB's of RAM in it, strictly for digital audio! He also mentioned that when you are doing the whole DAW thing that RAM is where it's at because you're music runs through the RAM memory, so the more you have the smoother things run. I have no idea if he was right or not? Also he told me the make and name of his MoBo but I was too preoccupied to write it down and I cannot remember it to save my life. The thing is this cat does all this complicated DJ'ing and sampling, all I want to do is regular drums, bass, guitar, vox stuff. So I don't think that I would NEED that much RAM, maybe something that can support 4 or 6, anyone have any info on MoBo's that support this?

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