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Originally posted by Psygnosis Master_Yoda, the RAM of my current PC is 384MB and still is slow, i've looked at the catalogues and stuff for memory chips and they seem quite cheap. They had a offer for 1024MB ram chip for like 150-200 bucks.. seems like two 512MB chips.

um can you please tell me where i can get 1024MB ram for $200!! Is this DDR ram?


Also on the HD issue, i would get a 120gig 10200rpm (somethign like that ) 8mb Cache, dont worry about SCSI, way to expensive.

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Originally posted by muli Also on the HD issue, i would get a 120gig 10200rpm (somethign like that ) 8mb Cache, dont worry about SCSI, way to expensive.

only if your working with video/audio (media stuff)
you would need it that fast

if you were to open up ms word and just do homework
10krpm wouldn't do much

7200rpm is enought for me
5400rpm <-too slow for anything!

yea i actually only have 7200 but thought 10k would be nice especially if he is keen on Produtcion

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Ok i wasn't going to reply to this but since i was a partner (and head technician) in a IT tech support company I'll tell you what you could do with some choices

for CPU's i'd recommend the following in order:

Athlon 64
Pentium 4 (Northwood not Prescott)
Athlon XP
Duron
Celeron

Athlon 64 is an x86 64 bit capable chip capable of accessing 4 terabytes of memory instead of 4 gb max as was previously able. It's fantastic for games and audio apps. It's got an on-die memory controller for very low latency access to Ram. Which is good!

here's some benchmarks showing what this thing can do












if you do decide to get a Athlon 64 then i'd recommend the new Nvidia Nforce3 250 Motherboard with 10/100/1000 Ethernet. Full Hypertransport support and goodies coming out the yin yang and the most stable board there is full stop lol.

Audio:
The Sound card is possibly one of the biggest choices you can make and is very important for what you want to do and i'll give you some choices and thoughts on sound

M Audio Revolution 7.1
Audigy 2
Other Envy24 based cards like Hurcules etc


The M-Audio cards have always been aimed at pro used with many of their cards aimed at recording and mastering studios with multitrack systems etc and their quality is very high with good quality DACs (Digital Audio Converters)

The Sound Blaster Audigy2 is actually quite a decent card. It's the only card capable of accelerating 3D audio for games (64 3D voices). It's capable of recording 24 bit audio at 192 khz. I've recorded a three hour set with that setup using it and it's got a reasonably low signal to noise ration which is quite good. Also in it's favour you can download and use Kx project drivers which are aimed at recording pros and offer low latencies with ASIO (I have mine running with 2 ms at the moment)

Hard Drives:

Unless you want to do some research to find whats faster etc the new Serial ATA drives are giving SCSI HDD's a run for their money and are much cheaper. Hitachi are releasing a 400 Gb model very soon and these are good capable drives that have more then enough speed for wave editing and so on. SCSI only comes into it's own with video editing where gbs of data are flowing in seconds and thats where SCSI is most useful.


Ram:

Pretty much any sort of DDR400 should do or get "brand" for your state of mind or if overclocking
Dual Channel is a bit better then single but not by that much but hey.....

Video:

this is important if you like a bit of gaming or a lot (like me lol)

at the moment ATI has a better product with their 9600 pro vs Nvidia's 5700 in the value segment and Ati's 9800 pro or Xt is a bit better then Nvidia's 5950 in the high end sector. If you wait about a month though Nvidia is releasing it's NV40 or thats it's codename anyways and it will be twice as fast as it's current high end thus dropping prices on it's current high end etc and forcing ATI to as well (just a tip). Get at least a 128 mg card with dualview capabilities if possible to setup two displays.

Displays: Don't bother with TFT displays as A: they're two small and B: two expensive and C: they have a slow refresh rate so they're bad for games anyways. If you afford a 21 inch go for it but 19 is pretty good two. If you can afford a Sony or Illyama etc then do so. Your eyes will thank you but it's not the end of the world.

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Whoa cheers Trazmit, plenty of helpful info there... and you got diagrams too lol , cool!!

This info is really helping now, would never had this idea of which is best and which isn't.

thanx everyone

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thanks, keep these opinions to yourself in future


get a mac dude, they look cool.

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Originally posted by gumble get a mac dude, they look cool.

lol!

you guys think you know computers!?!?!?! huh!?!?!? you know shit!



this brother knows computers!... biatch!

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i think its time to introduce you to www.msy.com.au

the cheapest damn shop in sydney

What they dont spend on english classes, they take off the price of their components so dont expect much help. Just go in and say, "here, this is what i want, do it"

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Originally posted by Matt P What they dont spend on english classes, they take off the price of their components so dont expect much help. Just go in and say, "here, this is what i want, do it"

lol

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Originally posted by Matt P i think its time to introduce you to www.msy.com.au the cheapest damn shop in sydney What they dont spend on english classes, they take off the price of their components so dont expect much help. Just go in and say, "here, this is what i want, do it"

damn thats cheap!!

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17” LG 787LE LCD Monitor $575 “HOT”

DON'T GET AMD or CELERON!!!

I know there are a million and 1 posts in this thread with recommendations but I although my AMD has served me very well over the last year or more they have been left for dead recently by Intel.
AMD have put too much of their focus on their new 64 bit processors and for standard desktops the Athlon XPs just can't compete

Buy a middle of the range Pentium 4 with HyperThreading & 800FSB
The 2.8 Ghz is one of the entry level CPUs in the HT range but will be about the same price as a standard 3000+ AMD which can't compete with it in performance.

Buy as much Memory as you can afford. Corsair is the best available.

ASUS motherboards are best, get one with an Intel chipset, they used to have bugs in them but they are by far the best now with the new processors. Avoid VIA chipsets like the plague, especially if you're working with audio.
Only things which are worth getting integrated in the motherboard are USB, FireWire, Modem & Ethernet as their performance isn't usually critical like audio & video is. Hard to find a motherboard that doesn't have built in sound these days though.

SCSI Hard-drives are only really needed on servers. SATA is the what you should be looking for. Its included on most decent motherboards these days.

Audio & Video cards a seperate thread all together. It depends on what you plan on doing with it.
If you plan to use it for any type of production at all...
DO NOT BUY A SOUND BLASTER

Oh and ignore anything to do with 64 bit technology unless you're buying a Mac G5
Theres no point until there is a major operating system and software written to take advantage of the achitecture.
Save your money, Windows & Cubase have no 64 bit optimised instructions