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Member Since: Jul 27, 2004

hey all listen ere an see if any 1 can help me out.

im from the uk an im just about to buy a custom built computer from a computer fare an i need to know what to get an whan not to get for the things ill be using this for.

ill be recording audio through cubase and saving quite a bit of mp3's and other audio to the computer, but the graphics dont need to be top notch, i just wana spend more on the system its self.

so the monitor, keyboard, mouse are just gonna be bog standard items here.

any good suggestions on memory? drives? how many? floppy? cdr? cdrw? dvdr?

and ill want a good set a speakers of course..??!!

thanks

john


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Since: Jul 27, 2004

Mar 05, 2005 02:06 pm

o yeah and a good sound card..

any makes??

john


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Since: Apr 03, 2002

Mar 05, 2005 02:41 pm

video cards are not that expensive, and most audio applications today have pretty graphically intense interfaces, so I would say not to get a top of the line graphics card, but don't totally cheap out on it either, 64-128 MB AGP card would good.

At least 7,200 RPM drives, two if you can, one for system and apps, one for audio, the most RAM you can afford, 1GB being great.

Sound cards...ESI, Echo and M-Audio are great manufacturers. I have had one of each at one time or another, I like ESI's driver set the best.

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Since: Jan 28, 2003

Mar 06, 2005 12:05 pm

For hard drive, I'd prefer at least one hard drive of at least 80 gig. You can get by with less, and certainly do with more. I have an M-audio, and I can vouch for them as well. You may want to get a SBLive type of "stock" soundcard as well, if you are going to be listening on computer speakers. It can also serve for basic recording, but if you want to get serious about it, you will be much happier with one of the ones db mentioned, or something similar.

You'll prolly want to start out with a decent set of computer speakers, but eventually you may want to upgrade to mointors (I've done lots and lots of work I my computer speakers - I would try and find a set that comes with a sub woofer).

At minimum a CD drive that can write to CD, so you can share your music with friends or pop it in the stereo to see how it sounds there.

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