System Compatibility question

[Matt Rushmore]

Building my system soon and just wanted to make sure no one sees any compatibility issues with PT9 with a 003R with what I am planning on building.

Also, will I notice a big difference in PT9 performance between a 7200rpm 6.0gb/s 64mb cache sata drive and a 7200rpm 3.0gb/s 32mb cache sata drive?

Would I notice a PT9 performance difference between 10600 ram and 12800 ram?

ASUS P6T SE ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7 950 3.06 GHz Quad Core Processor
Kingston 2 GB PC 12800 DDR3 Memory (8 Gigs) (Torn between dual channel and spending more for triple channel)
Windows 7 64 Bit
Seagate Barracuda 1 TB SATA Hard Drive 7200-3.0gb/s (2 drives, one system drive and one recording drive)
Sony 24X DVD RW SATA DVD Burner
EVGA GT 220 1 GB DDR3 GeForce (NVIDIA) Video Card
SIIG NN-E20012-S2 Firewire card
Zumax X3 Series 600W Power Supply

Thanks for any input.

[albee1952]

If that mobo will do triple channel, I would go that route(with 6 or 12 gigs of RAM). newegg has a sale right now I can't answer the question on the 2 RAM speeds, but I suspect triple channel would be faster than dual channel. And I also wonder if CAS latency means more than the RAM clocking? I would go with 3 hard drives as I would use a 500gb for system(1TB is way oversized). And I would use another 500gb drive for sample libraries(or get all 1TB and use the extra space for backups of all your sessions and save some system drive images on the samples drive(or on an external). I'm in the process of building a similar setup but with a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R. I've had some rough days with it but I think I finally figured out that 1 or 2 of the drivers on the mobo disc are bad(but have yet to solve that issue).

[Matt Rushmore]

Thanks Albee!

Anyone got any opinions on whether or not I would notice a big difference in PT9 performance between a 7200rpm 6.0gb/s 64mb cache sata drive and a 7200rpm 3.0gb/s 32mb cache sata drive?