Building a new computer - Recommendations?

[Swaphappy]

Good morning it's me. The crazy one that bought the digi 001 without reading the compatibility web page and now is switching from W2k to Win98.

Ok, once again I have stepped off the edge. Just purchased an 80 gig 7200 rpm Wd Hard drive and found that my Pentium II won't support a drive bigger than 40 gig. Yes I have upgraded the BIOS but no help. Hey the drive was only $167.

Sooooo I need help in building a new box. What mother board, CPU, Memory, video card do you recommend.

Thanks [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[recordingguy]

Abit KG7
AMD 1.4GHZ Athlon (Thunderbird) 266MHz
512 Micrion PC2100
Matrox G400 or450 Video card
[img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Mark_Knecht]

http://duc.digidesign.com/cgi-bin/ub...;f=32;t=004858

[Doncorlione]

Yep!
You've stepped through the mirror.
Swaphappy in Digiland.
Your next stop:
-There isn't any.
The next purchse:
-Everything.

BTW I believe Recordingguy has the highest track count on the davec test anyone has reported so far. That is a powerful little list up there .

24 Tracks
32 Aux
280 Plugins
PTLE 5.1.1
Win 98SE
Digi on IRQ 9
Abit KG7(no raid)
Promise card ATA100
AMD Athlon 1.4 266buss
Micron 256MGh DDR Ram PC2100/266
Matrox G400
Maxtor 30G 7200rpm Program
Western Digital 80G 7200 Audio

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[Swaphappy]

Here is what I got so far.

CPU: AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.4 GHZ

Motherboard: ABIT KR7A-133 with VIA VT8366 chip set.
(Couldn't find the VIA KT133A chip set, do you think the VT8366 will work?)

RAM: 256 Meg DDR PC 2100

Video: Aopen TNT II 32 Meg card

ATX Turbo Case w/320 Watt Ps

EXTRA: Added two more IDE ports with an Ultra 100 IDE expansion card.

Total cost so far $520

Drives: Already had 40GIG
and 80GIG WD 7200RPM hard drive was $167

Well do you think I have done well or just wasted more bucks?

Comments

[crs117]

Originally posted by Swaphappy:

Ok, once again I have stepped off the edge. Just purchased an 80 gig 7200 rpm Wd Hard drive and found that my Pentium II won't support a drive bigger than 40 gig. Yes I have upgraded the BIOS but no help. Hey the drive was only $167.

Sooooo I need help in building a new box. What mother board, CPU, Memory, video card do you recommend.

Thanks [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Swaphappy,

Glad i didnt tick off and scare you off. As far as building a new box the people that have built these systems usually do chime in to help if you have any problems setting their config up, and anybody else here usually is happy to chime in to help as well.

I think that you will be extremely happy to have a new system over a pII to run ptle. I started off running a pII 333 and even though it worked fine for small projects with few (and i mean few pluggins) the cost of computers now is justification enough to build at least a gighrtz system. Good luck.

One last thing, if you have to build one now i understand, but you may want to wait till the xp release comes out to see what digi recommends since you do plan on upgrading to xp (i assume that you may be planning on using your new xp box, but you may decide to keep this box as pt only).

Christian

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[Swaphappy]

Couldn't find the VIA KT133A chip set, do you think the VIA VT8366 will work?

[recordingguy]

Originally posted by Doncorlione:
BTW I believe Recordingguy has the highest track count on the davec test anyone has reported so far. That is a powerful little list up there .

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> 24 Tracks
32 Aux
280 Plugins
PTLE 5.1.1
Win 98SE
Digi on IRQ 9
Abit KG7(no raid)
Promise card ATA100
AMD Athlon 1.4 266buss w/stock retail fan
Micron 256MGh DDR Ram PC2100/266
Matrox G400
Maxtor 30G 7200rpm Program
Western Digital 80G 7200 Audio

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">I added another stick of 256 ram and have new results...I couldn't hardly believe it my self, but I kept adding aux tracks and PTLE kept letting me...

Here are the new results with 512 ram...

24 audio
46 aux
5 stock plugins on each one...

I am also running only windown 98SE straight off the disk, with no CRITICAL UPDATES AND SERVICE PACKS from Microsoft...Never connected the machine to the internet either...I'm not sure if that makes a difference or not...

Happy Prooltooling!!! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Swaphappy]

Ok, I'm loading Windows 98 SE right now.