Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] New Machine
From: Luke Yelavich (lukethemuso_AT_ozemail.com.au)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 01:37:40 EET
Hi Chris
I did the same thing a couple of months ago, and am happy with my setup.
Specs follow.
Asus P4PE Motherboard
Intel Pentium IV 2.4Ghz at 533Mhz FSB
2 x 512MB PC2700 RAM, (Total of 1GB)
Seagate 40GB ATA-100 IDE hard drive, for operating systems, mainly Linux
and Win2k.
Seagate 80GB ATA-100 IDE hard drive, for all audio and sample data.
Matrox Millennium G550 dual head AGP video card.
TerraTec DMX 6FIRe 24/96 soundcard, as I don't need a lot of ins and outs,
and wanted MIDI and digital interfaces.
With this setup, I am able to get very low latency in Windows, approx 1-3
ms, and a bit lower with Linux and ardour/softsynths via JACK.
hth
Luke.
At 09:10 AM 3/19/2003, you wrote:
>Hi guys! (and gals).
>
>I am looking into building a new machine, and I want to do some
>home-studio recording with it. I was hoping that some of you could lend
>some of your expert advice.
>
>It sounds like SCSI is pretty-much a must in these situations, true? What
>I was wondering about in particular is if anyone has tried anything like
>this: Setting up a machine with an IDE hard drive to hold the system
>files (say an ata 133 7200 rpm...) and a scsi disk for the dumping ground
>of the audio programs such as ecasound, audacity or Ardour. I think I
>would put the swap partition on the scsi drive as well. Obviously I am
>trying to save a little money here, and I am trying to minimize
>latency. (I think that somewhere around the $2K mark is my limit.) I am
>accustomed to using multitrack analog units, but digital/computer
>recording is still extremely new to me.
>
>Any thoughts on this?
>
>I would also love to hear any suggestions regarding what disks,
>motherboards, cases and heatsinks people recommend and have had luck with.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Chris
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