| New 'puter [message #100387] |
Wed, 17 September 2008 19:17  |
TCB
Messages: 1261
Registered: July 2007
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Hey all,
Well, in case anyone here cares, I had a mobo fail on me a bit ago. Computer
no workee. I can build my own, of course, but I'm sick of doing that and
hate troubleshooting hardware at that level. At least give me a POST so I'm
not looking up beep codes, or worse yet remembering I never plugged in the
system sound so can't even hear the damn beep codes.
I could have hired Morgan or Chris to do the job for me of course. But I'm
pretty savvy with computers after 15 years working on them and really just
didn't want to do the build myself, the config/research value-add that those
guys give don't do much for me. So instead I had an online custom builder
who does gamer boxes do it for me. Or at least I ordered it. Here's the config.
Asus P5Q Pro mobo, Intel P45 chipset
Core2 Quad Q6600 (4x 2.4 Ghz)
2GB DDR2 memory
ATI 3850 video card that will drive a 2560x1600 30" display
Intel certified liquid cooling system
Cheapest everything else (DVD RW, hard drive, etc and so forth, I have all
of those parts)
That was $849 + shipping.
I realize this isn't the absolute cheapest price possible for this rig but
I think I got a decent deal and there were a couple of things I liked about
these guys. They don't force me to buy a Windows license (I have about half
a dozen ways I can legitimately install XP and Vista on this thing), they
were good about helping me find a few of the components, and they didn't
try to upsell me on all kinds of stupid shit I don't need like $500 video
cards.
We'll see. Pulsar users claim this chipset will play nice with my card but
I'll believe it when I see it, esp with the quad processor. The LSI firewire
chipset is something even MOTU will support, and one that LiquidMix users
have switched TO on the forums, so the small (x2) PCI slot count shouldn't
bite me on the ass. If those two things will work I can deal with pretty
much anything else.
I'll keep the group posted on what I find, as usual this will be an SX/Live/Reason
machine with 15,000 plug-ins and synths on it.
TCB
P.S. In a diametrically opposed treat I also bought myself a Leica IIIf camera
from 1952. New tech does a lot more but the purely mechanical devices of
the past are pretty freaking cool.
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