Need help with New PC specs for Home Recording

[zBuv]

Hi,

1st for some background,
I am recording at home for 8 years.
In 2002 i've bought a p4 1700, intel MV board with 512M RDRam.
I thought that RDRam is the future and decided on Intel board without OC options in the believe that intels knows it's CPU's best and it will contribute for stability.
As for the stability i was right.
As for the RDR, after two months from purchase, Intel and Rambus saparated, killing the technology.

I lated found that due to the board supporting only up to 2000mhz i was stuck.
Two years from purchase i've only added 256M of RDR (expensive).

Now i am looking 4wd buying a new rig.
regarding the audio, i will probably move with my pulsar(1) board to the new PC.

Initially i thought of AMD and thought about the ending of the 939 era and should or shouldn't i wait for the M2 kits.

Yesterday i've found that there are problems with the AMD and music and i am rethinking going for the Intel D 920 with 1G ram.

As it's a home PC that will occasionally run some games, i will require a medium budget video card (FIFA, CMR, etc).

I think 1G is enough for me (my commit charge is 880000K at peak), is it ?

What board is recommended, i saw recommendations on Asus p5wd2, it's expensive for me, but i will strech if you think it's nessesary (i don't know too much about boards)

I live in a hot climate zone with no AC in my room, during summer i have heat crashes, What case would you recommend ?

General background, My main music work is with FL, i use the pulsar only for audio routing (gave up on synths and effects, sorry), i use SX2 rarly for full audio projects and VSTi's are my main practice.

Hope this will help you direct me in the right path.

P.S. my old pc will keep running for my child, so most HD will shift to the new PC, but i will require a new SATA2 HD.

Hoping for the best,

Me.

[H-Rave]

I think the best reply for that would be that I don't think the computer is really as important we would be lead to believe.As long as you have a stable operating system with all drivers etc up to date,you shouldn't have any worries.I've got windows xp sp1 with all the updates and hotfixes etc.on an nvidia chipset with 1 Giga of DDRam and a Barton 1.8Ghz Processor in acpi mode I don't have any problems at all.

[wayne]

I bought an asus p5ad2-e premium board recently - similar to the p5wd2 - and it's smooth as.

1gb corsair twinx ram does the trick.

My stock 775 fan started to whine after a month, so i replaced it with a Zalman CNPS7700 copper/aluminium silent fan.

That's a nice fan - rev controller to stick on the side of the case, very quiet, but it's big - i had to trim a few fins with scissors so it would fit up against the PSU

[bronYaur]

hey I have Intel motherB with rdram @ 1066 Mhz (1 GB d850emv2),P4 2.8,three scope and all work rocksolid
The only probelm is the case cooling


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