[LAU] New workstation | DAW pc

rosea grammostola rosea.grammostola at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 16:02:58 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 5:26 PM, rosea grammostola <
rosea.grammostola at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Danni Coy <danni.coy at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 1) Obviously Sound card and Monitors are most important. Beyond that it
>> depends on the type of task. Softsynths will be typically be CPU limited,
>> Multitrack recording Harddrive IO limited. I would perhaps look at this page
>> for Ardour http://ardour.org/linux_system_requirements which basically
>> says that any modern hardware will be fine.
>> 2) Dual core should be fine, Quad cores will allow you to run more tasks
>> at once. Currently it seems that intel have best low power options with the
>> i3,i5,i7 series. AMD might be worth a lookin if you also want accerated
>> graphics on a budget.
>> 3) I built a system with the Antec P180 case about a 2 years ago. It
>> worked quite well. There may be better options now.
>> 4) Because I have a firewire based audio interface I have been going with
>> Gigabyte Mainboards (TI firewire onboard).
>> 5) Whatever you find a comfortable size to use. I have a 23 " in front of
>> me at the moment and it seems a pretty good size to work with. If you also
>> do a lot of photography or graphic design then I would look at either an
>> IPIS or PVA based monitor IPIS monitors typically start at 1000 dollars.
>> 6) Fans will largely depend on what else you end up doing. Larger fans
>> typically make less noise.
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> Is it uberhaubt possible to have a low-power workhorse pc, to save energy?
> Which components are especially important here?
>

Hmm Dell and Lenovo monitors seems to be good when it comes to this. Dunno
which monitor brands are good for graphics in general though...
http://reviews.cnet.com/green-tech/monitor-comparison-chart/
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