Production PC.

[DannyBlack]

Now that my production is picking up I want something better than what I have now. I found this chap:

# INTEL Dual Core E5200 CPU (2X2.5ghz CPUs in 1)
# Socket 775 Motherboard
# Massive 2 GIG of DDR2 RAM
# Plentiful 250GIG super fast SATA Hard drive
# DVDRW drive - reads and copies both CDs & DVDs
# Integrated 3D Video - good quality (or add €49 for a 512meg PCI -E card)
# Integrated 3D sound (Obviously I will buy an external soundcard)
# Intgrated LAN (Great for broadband connectivity)
# Quality slim tower case
# 6 X USB 2.0 Ports - 2 at the front & 4 at the rear


This any good?

[rhythmtech]

it all depends what you want to run on it and what money you want to spend danny. that looks fine for FL or ableton (although i would upgrade to 3 gig ram and get xp pro so that you can utilise the 3GB and USERVA switches (these are for letting your machine access more memory and how its allocated).

im about to buy an intel 17 920 8-core BUT i am using protools and the band sessions im doing are running up to 50 tracks so i need it.

what price were you quoted?

[DannyBlack]

Hmmm... food for thought. I will be running FL and Reason only (for now). The price for the above is €300.00. Which to be fair seems like a bloody deadly price.

[BloodStar]

dual-core never ever. I have got one in the office, and it's slow as hell.,. core2Duo or quad core is much better option these days. your price is nothing special,tbh

lemme show you what I built for my mate 1 month ago, altogether 400Euros>
C2D E6750 2.66Mhz
A-Data Vitesta EE 2GB (kit 2x 1GB) 800+ MHz Z
Arctic Cooling MX-2
Cooler Master Elite 330
Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB DDR3 GV-R435OC-512I
Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L (rev.1.0)
LG GH22NP20 SecurDisc
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 3.5" 500GB ST3500320AS
Seasonic SS-500ET-T3 500W OEM

[DannyBlack]

dual-core never ever. I have got one in the office, and it's slow as hell.,. core2Duo or quad core is much better option these days. your price is nothing special,tbh

lemme show you what I built for my mate 1 month ago, altogether 400Euros>
C2D E6750 2.66Mhz
A-Data Vitesta EE 2GB (kit 2x 1GB) 800+ MHz Z
Arctic Cooling MX-2
Cooler Master Elite 330
Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 4350 512MB DDR3 GV-R435OC-512I
Gigabyte GA-EP43-S3L (rev.1.0)
LG GH22NP20 SecurDisc
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 3.5" 500GB ST3500320AS
Seasonic SS-500ET-T3 500W OEM

I don't know why but I got the impression dualcore would be faster. cool, well I shall have a look into sourcing similar to yours.

[BloodStar]

I don't know why but I got the impression dualcore would be faster.

hehehe. buy one and you will see ;-]

[DannyBlack]

haha not now I won't! right, so bottom line is that the one I'm looking at all that great. Cheers for the info lads, I now know roughly what I'm looking for. :-)