Wondering P4

[Soul drivers]

Hi, I´m just wonderng if this configuration is going to work fine or someone would change something.

Mothe Intel 865 GBF
Micro P4 3.00 Ghz 1024 Prescott
2 GB ram (4x512)
HDrive Maxtor Diamond Plus 9 160 GB 8 MB Buffer.
2 17" monitors, with 128 MB video

This is almost my budget... so any suggestion in the same price please.
Thanx

[bladesg]

That will work fine. I would suggest however going for the Northwood core Pentium 4 CPU though. The Prescott runs quite substantially hotter than the Northwood meaning more efficient cooling requirements hence noise. The Northwood also outperforms Prescott at this speed 3.0GHz in almost all benchmarks.

The only other thing I would look at is getting yourself another HDD dedicated for recording your audio to.

Good Luck.

[Fran d'Valle]

good system!!!, but be carefully with the prescott high temperature!!!!!! You must to buy a great cooler systems for this P4, as cooler master jet series or liquied cooler!!!

dont't forguet, be carefully with the temperature!!!

[bb_aus]

my p4 runs great, im loving Hyper Threading now working (i know its still not officially supported)
i have a 3.0GHz northwood
make sure you change the L2 cache size in windows (even more important if u decide to stick with the prescott) - many people over look it and it makes a difference

only thing is make sure you have a seperate hard disk for audio
intel motherboards are the best way to go for a P4 system
you dont need an incredibly specky vidio card for duel monitor anymore

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Digi 002
ProTools 6.4
Intel D865 PERLL Motherboard (firewire and SATA)
Intel P4 3GHz 800MHz FSB with Hyper-Threading
1GB (2x512MB) Kingston RAM (duel channel)
80GB WD PATA (system)
120GB Seagate SATA (audio)
nvidia geforce fx5200
Windows XP Professional SP1