building a PC, know any articles or threads to help
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Posted on Aug 04, 2005 09:45 am
btglenn
Member Since: Dec 29, 2004
im using a motu 828 and looking to build a dedicated PC, b/c my friends in the PC business. Im guessing all ineed is the necessities, im not to knowledgeable in the feild, how should i start choosing my components.
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Aug 04, 2005 09:49 am STart by choosing motherboard and CPU - fastest you can afford and the most ram you can afford to fit in it. AFter that, you simply need some cards, maybe not even those if network, modem, video and all that are already built on the motherboard, which is common these days...and unfortunate.
Then a case with a nice big power supply...a hard drive (big and fast).
Easy as that, slap it all together...
BeerHunterwww.TheLondonProject.caMember
Since: Feb 07, 2005
Aug 04, 2005 10:42 am ...make sure that you have enough expansion slots to accomodate the cards that you plan to put in it. I've got 3 Delta cards and this hasn't left me enough room to put in a second video card so I can have dual display. It seems that MBoards with lots of onboard components are a little lean on expansion slots now-a-days.
Aug 04, 2005 01:07 pm IMHO it all begins with the powersupply. Get a good case with a GREAT PS.
JoeW
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Aug 04, 2005 01:20 pm get a card with dual display built in. I had a matrox g450 in my last one. worked great, and had off ebay for 30$. No fan to worry about either. I think dB has a dual head of a different flavor.
Definately worth it as far as video real estate. tracks on one side, mixer / effects on the other. Or, host on one side, instruments/VSTi on the other.
Way speedy.
I've been pondering, aren't the better MB leaving the extra components off the board. It seems that only the cheapy ones have all the net/vid/modem/aud built into the board.
pjkPrince CZAR-mingMember
Since: Apr 08, 2004
Aug 04, 2005 01:21 pm oo, just thought of something, the via chipsets were reported to have problems with audio/video stuff.
Worth a headsup.
Aug 04, 2005 01:23 pm Yes, I have dual display in the studio...it's a PNY gForce chip as I recall.
It seems hard to by MoBo's that don't have all the crap built into it anymore, which sucks.
zekthedeadcowEat Spam before it eats YOU!!!Member
Since: May 11, 2002
Aug 05, 2005 09:11 am The via chipset does have problems with multiple high demand PCI cards. They have set their PCI latency to focus only on the AGP card which makes sence for everyone but home recordists. There is a patch that works as I use an ASUS board with Via chipsets... without the patch it would hang on startup as the aardvark Q10's drivers get initialized.
