On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Jeremy Jongepier <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jeremy@autostatic.com">jeremy@autostatic.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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A &#39;case&#39; like Kevin Cosgrove mentions in another mail. And air flow
(had to read that a couple of times, &#39;ear flow&#39;? What&#39;s &#39;ear flow&#39;? ;)
), don&#39;t forget about that no.</blockquote><div><br>Hehe ear flow, should be air flow, right :) ha ha <br></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Mark Knecht <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:markknecht@gmail.com">markknecht@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<div class="h5">
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">You don&#39;t mention if you&#39;re comfortable buying components and building<br>
the machine yourself.<br></blockquote><div><br>That&#39;s one of the options, to build it myself. Looks like it is going that way...<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

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While you do ask about processor cores, and basically it&#39;s &#39;the more<br>
the better&#39; under Linux, understanding more about your music interests<br>
might help. If you&#39;re recording acoustic music and see yourself adding<br>
a bit of reverb, a touch of compression, that&#39;s one thing. If you see<br>
yourself doing 64-track techno full of synths and lots of plugins<br>
running live all at the same time well then that&#39;s probably another<br>
thing entirely in terms of sucking up CPU power.<br></blockquote><div><br>My recordings are not very heavy, but I also want to use my system for other work, like packaging and working with debian live-helper and making some custom Debian live cd&#39;s.<br>
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That would be hard to do for 500 euro I think. (I&#39;m in California so I<br>
have no idea how or where you purchase in your part of Europe)<br></blockquote><div><br>Yeah, good chance it&#39;s gonna be more...<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

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Anyway, I&#39;m a fan of Asus MBs, either Intel or AMD processors. I used<br>
to work for AMD but frankly right now it&#39;s pretty hard to beat Intel&#39;s<br>
Core i5 &amp; i7 offerings. I&#39;ve got an i5-661, i7-920 and an i7-980x.<br>
They are all quite nice at different price points and the i5 is very<br>
energy efficient.<br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for the info. After some reading and discussion, the i3 or i5 seems to be good options indeed. <br>After reading this: <a href="http://www.anandtech.com/show/2901/7">http://www.anandtech.com/show/2901/7</a> and considering my budget<br>
It looks like I better go for a i3 540 or something close to that, compared to a i5...<br><br>Regards,<br><br>\r<br></div><font color="#888888"></font></div><br>