[LAU] help for building new desktop pc

[Renato]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:54:13 -0800
october001 at gmail.com wrote:

> I've been running an maudio delta 44 internal sound card for years,
> moving it from one pc to the next as I upgrade.  Probably not the
> cheapest card out the but not the most expensive either!  Very low
> latencies were obtainable (without xruns) even on my earliest single
> CPU machines.  Running it now on a 64 bit quadcore amd I built and
> I've never thought about replacing it.
> 
> I've never overclocked any of my machines, even for gaming purposes.  
> 
> I experiment a lot but tend to stay around some sort of debian/ubuntu
> (or mint) hybrid, usually with a hand rolled rt kernel.  A yamaha 4
> channel mixer and an maudio midi 4x4 has allowed me to mix hardware
> synths with soft in a loaded ardour setup quite effectively.
> 

Thanks Jon for replying. May I ask what type of audio work you do with
your system, and what brings it to its limit?

cheers,
renato