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Sun, 04 December 2005 10:46

Deej [1]

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will be more than
> enough for her current needs with Photoshop, Illustrator, Pagemaker, etc.
>
> Since I keep my computers set up on open SenFu test benches in a machine
> room, what I'm going to do is buy a good, quiet case, PSU, video card, audio
> card, CD/DVD player/burner, floppy and a big storage drive for her, install
> the current system drive, mobo and aforementioned componentry into that,
> reformat the drive, reload Win XP (so that she's not running the *tweaked to
> hell* system I'm running now) and buy her the Adobe software that she needs
> to be productive.
>
> Next, I'm going to build another native system. I'm going to need a mobo,
> RAM and a dual core AMD CPU. I'll be interfacing my audio hardware/UAD-1
> cards using a Magma 13 slot chassis so I'm not really concerned about the
> number of PCI slots. One thing I do want to be able to do is to use my two
> existing Matrox G450's (AGP and PCI) Due to this, I am leaning toward trying
> the ASUS A8V-Deluxe mobo just because I'm familiar with the quirks of ASUS,
> I know that one of the PCI slots will be hardwired to the AGP and I know
> that since the Matrox cards share the same driver, this *should* work nicely
> with the host card of the Magma using az PCI slot that (hopefully) isn't
> sharing an IRQ with any other device, or at least benignly with something
> friendly. I'm also going to be going with at least 2 gig of DDR in this
> machine.....maybe more. Guess I'll check ASUS' site to see what's
> recommended.
>
> Lastly is the CPU. I want to be able to operate this machine as much as
> possible at low latencies with VSTi's. I've been eyeing the dual core 3800
> CPU's because they are the least expensive right now, but skimping will
> defeat the whole purpose of this upgrade.
>
> Is anyone using an AMD dual core CPU system right now? If so, I'd be mighty
> interested to hear your experiences before I once again descend into
> computer building hell.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Deej
>
>
>That's good news Dave. After checking out the mobo manual, it looks like PCI
#4 isn't shared. I'm also thinking of going with a Matrox P750 since I'm
just using 3 x mon

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		OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Deej [1] on Sun, 04 December 2005 10:46
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: steve the artguy on Sun, 04 December 2005 12:03
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Deej [1] on Sun, 04 December 2005 11:54
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: audioguy_editout_ on Sun, 04 December 2005 11:45
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Deej [1] on Sun, 04 December 2005 11:54
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: audioguy_editout_ on Sun, 04 December 2005 12:03
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Deej [1] on Thu, 08 December 2005 13:09
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: EK Sound on Thu, 08 December 2005 13:26
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Dimitrios on Thu, 08 December 2005 14:33
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Deej [1] on Thu, 08 December 2005 15:06
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Dimitrios on Fri, 09 December 2005 02:01
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: erlilo on Fri, 09 December 2005 01:42
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Deej [1] on Fri, 09 December 2005 10:06
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: erlilo on Sun, 04 December 2005 12:39
		ASUS A8V Deluxe.....AMI bios By: Deej [1] on Sun, 04 December 2005 12:49
		Re: ASUS A8V Deluxe.....AMI bios By: erlilo on Mon, 05 December 2005 01:12
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Rohde Wakefield on Mon, 05 December 2005 07:36
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: erlilo on Mon, 05 December 2005 08:02
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: justcron on Mon, 05 December 2005 10:11
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: John [1] on Mon, 05 December 2005 12:14
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Deej [1] on Mon, 05 December 2005 14:44
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Kim on Mon, 05 December 2005 16:33
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: erlilo on Mon, 05 December 2005 23:48
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Tony Benson on Tue, 06 December 2005 09:43
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Jamie K on Tue, 06 December 2005 10:14
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Tony Benson on Tue, 06 December 2005 13:31
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: Jamie K on Tue, 06 December 2005 23:31
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: IOUOI on Tue, 06 December 2005 06:50
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: TCB on Tue, 06 December 2005 12:10
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: gene lennon on Tue, 06 December 2005 20:29
		Re: OK...new computer.....here's the plan...and a question By: audioguy_editout_ on Tue, 06 December 2005 19:29

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