[linux-audio-user] New Machine

[Luke Yelavich]

Hi Chris
I did the same thing a couple of months ago, and am happy with my setup. 
Specs follow.

Asus P4PE Motherboard
Intel Pentium IV 2.4Ghz at 533Mhz FSB
2 x 512MB PC2700 RAM, (Total of 1GB)
Seagate 40GB ATA-100 IDE hard drive, for operating systems, mainly Linux 
and Win2k.
Seagate 80GB ATA-100 IDE hard drive, for all audio and sample data.
Matrox Millennium G550 dual head AGP video card.
TerraTec DMX 6FIRe 24/96 soundcard, as I don't need a lot of ins and outs, 
and wanted MIDI and digital interfaces.

With this setup, I am able to get very low latency in Windows, approx 1-3 
ms, and a bit lower with Linux and ardour/softsynths via JACK.

hth

Luke.


At 09:10 AM 3/19/2003, you wrote:
>Hi guys! (and gals).
>
>I am looking into building a new machine, and I want to do some 
>home-studio recording with it.  I was hoping that some of you could lend 
>some of your expert advice.
>
>It sounds like SCSI is pretty-much a must in these situations, true?  What 
>I was wondering about in particular is if anyone has tried anything like 
>this:  Setting up a machine with an IDE hard drive to hold the system 
>files (say an ata 133 7200 rpm...) and a scsi disk for the dumping ground 
>of the audio programs such as ecasound, audacity or Ardour.  I think I 
>would put the swap partition on the scsi drive as well.  Obviously I am 
>trying to save a little money here, and I am trying to minimize 
>latency.  (I think that somewhere around the $2K mark is my limit.)  I am 
>accustomed to using multitrack analog units, but digital/computer 
>recording is still extremely new to me.
>
>Any thoughts on this?
>
>I would also love to hear any suggestions regarding what disks, 
>motherboards, cases and heatsinks people recommend and have had luck with.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Chris