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Original Message Date: 18-Nov-01 @ 10:27 AM - is a pentium 450 enough?

bster

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My pc is shit and i have been offered a 450 pentium with 500mb of ram and a 2 gig hard drive, i now i'll have to get a bigger hard drive and a sound card but will the 450 proccesor be enough for hard drive recording and editing of my sounds from my Supernova,JX-10,DX-100? (i'm not going to use any plug ins.
any help thanked
jaime

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Message 21/43 22-Nov-01 @ 09:15 AM - RE: is a pentium 450 enough?

bster

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I've been on to pcindex and have been looking at an Athlon 1.3 (�90)Asus a7m (113)Quantum fireball plus 7200 (90)

do i need a 32mb graphics card or will a 16 do also i couldnt workout what type of memory the Asus mobo takes any one got any ideas.

cheers for the info everyone.

Bster

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Message 22/43 22-Nov-01 @ 11:26 AM - RE: is a pentium 450 enough?

dARKSTATe

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Check out www.overclockers.co.uk...

Go to their motherboards page, look up the same mobo you're intending to get, it should have a bit more detail on the type of ram slots there...

You don't even need a 32MB gfx card if its just for music production.. 8MB will be plenty enough to drive your monitor in a high enough resolution at a decent colour depth..

Marc_D

(of course, if you wanna play games too.. ;)

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Message 23/43 22-Nov-01 @ 02:50 PM - RE: is a pentium 450 enough?

bedwyr

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aaarrrgh! games!!? fking things cause all sorts of problems, put them on a seperate install of windows if you must indulge. ;)

try www.crucial.com for your memory, just input your mobo and it finds the right memory for you, and get as much as you can coz it really does make a difference, get a 512 stick and you can just keep buying more later till your full

mmm ... memory

ps don't forget to price for an os as well, unless you can 'borrow' one

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Message 24/43 22-Nov-01 @ 04:38 PM Edit: 22-Nov-01 | 04:39 PM - RE: is a pentium 450 enough?

dARKSTATe

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Yep... and think about gettin' a "Cpu manufacturer approved fan"... sounds a bit anal to do so but I've heard enough horror stories about ppl not using fans correctly specced to their cpu and hence not getting enough cooling and pffft....

Cost me about �65 for 512MB of DDR Registered RAM (the unregistered stuff is a touch cheaper, not tecchie enough to know what the diff. is, but as it was only a little saving I went for the more expensive stuff) in 2x256MB sticks..

And Bedwyr.. ain't nothin' wrong with the odd game here or there if you got 'em not interfering with your system - except when all those loverly MAME Roms stop you from doing work (3.2GBs worth.. sheesh! ahem...!)

"Go retro.. go retro.."

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Message 25/43 14-Dec-01 @ 08:42 PM - RE: is a pentium 450 enough?

Brett B

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50 tracks at 24/48khz, plenty of waves REQ's, RCLS's, GRMTools Filters,Automation out the ass, from pans to fx sends. The music I do is complex with many string sections layered and mixed with tons of rynthm tracks. I give each drum part it's own track ,eq, and compressor if needed, kick and snare. I'll let you have a listen the song I am working on now that has maxed my out my 800. The fact is, that as your ability to write and peform sound production grow, you will need the extra power. I can do most of my tech-house songs ok with the 800, but some of the more"hybrid" like break beat tracks are to complex for my machine. I have five stereo string tracks, all the drums,synth and atmospheric stuff,I still need to add the vocals, and My machine is stuterring hard. Many of these tracks are full lenth, not clips. I have already bounced down most of the fx, and converted the project to 16 bit. But I need my new computer to take it to where it can go. I'll post it for you Influx when it's done.

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Message 26/43 14-Dec-01 @ 09:36 PM Edit: 15-Dec-01 | 12:01 AM - RE: is a pentium 450 enough?

influx

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whats it take you, a year to write something? and your "tech-house" can usually work on an 800? my man...

like I said, youre overdoing it

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Message 27/43 15-Dec-01 @ 10:22 AM - RE: is a pentium 450 enough?

xoxos

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no, influx, the fact is if you have more and better gear, it means you're better. like huh i know some fool who's been using one analog synth and a freaking 8 track tape machine (ergo seven tracks really) and her's been doing it for eighteen years! what a sucker, eh, you think their ability to write and peform sound production would grow by now huh.

the funny thing is that some people have been actually buying recordings of this for several albums now, even following when they change their project name. see they just don't know when they're listening to someone who doesn't have the ability to write and perform sound production because they don't need extra powerr

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Message 28/43 15-Dec-01 @ 07:49 PM - RE: is a pentium 450 enough?

influx

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hehe. It just seems that expectations rise exponentially...

hey Brett..have you looked at the UAD-1 card? something you should have a look at

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Message 29/43 16-Dec-01 @ 07:38 AM - RE: is a pentium 450 enough?

Brett B

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yes , but i love Sonar, and the uad-1 is only vst pc. I sent them numerouse e-mails, and even requested that Sonar contact them. None of the dsp cards are DX. plus, that card is as much as a new machine.

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Message 30/43 16-Dec-01 @ 09:39 AM - RE: is a pentium 450 enough?

influx

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yeah, $30k worth of sound for $600. seems fair to me.

but the driver thing. guess that could be a problem. hadnt thought about that one. bummer

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