If you want real performance out of your HD's get an ultra160 scsi controller and a 10k RPM drive. When dealing with big wavs and stuff hard disk transfer speed is a bottleneck.

oh, and if you are going the 2 monitors rout, you can either get a twin head video card (more expensive) or pickup a used 8MB older vid card for like $10. If you're only using the 2nd one for music apps, you don't need a good card at all, just something that'll run 1024x768.

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Originally posted by rahvin If you want real performance out of your HD's get an ultra160 scsi controller and a 10k RPM drive. When dealing with big wavs and stuff hard disk transfer speed is a bottleneck.

The new 7200 RPM HD's with 8Mb cash are almost as fast as 10k RPM SCSI drives and, since you don't need a SCSI controller, are much cheaper. Btw, I strongly recommend buying 2 HD's, one for Windows and program files and one for audio recording. Recording on a separate HD is better because of the recording proces won't be disturbed by your pc reading some stupid windows information/writing some values, since that takes places on the other HD.

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Originally posted by rahvin oh, and if you are going the 2 monitors rout, you can either get a twin head video card (more expensive) or pickup a used 8MB older vid card for like $10. If you're only using the 2nd one for music apps, you don't need a good card at all, just something that'll run 1024x768.

Note that this second card must be a PCI card, since almost all motherboards only have one AGP slot. In most cases this will indeed work, but there's still a little chance that you'll meet serious problems. With a dual-head card, which is specially made for 2-screen use, you have the garanty everything works fine ánd you'll have better control over the 2 screen set-up.

idd i'm thinking of getting a GF4MX with twinview

gonna get my stuff @ www.snogard.de this saturday

thx all for the tips!!

cheerz

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