PC spec advice.

[Marsdy]

I'm looking for some help from you PC guys....

I'm using an HD3 system on a Mac Pro. I'm collaborating with a musician who is using Cubase 5 on a PC. He's thinking it would be better for him to use PT10 so we're compatible. The Mbox3 with upgrade to PT10 included looks like a great deal at the moment.

I'm not sure his PC is up to it though. It's running XP pro so I believe he'll need to upgrade to Windows 7.

The specs of his machine is as follows.
Pentium 4 3.8 Ghz overclocked to 4.22 Ghz. (It is in a well cooled 19" rack case.)
3.25 Gb RAM, SSD system drive and two drives for audio.

Would this run PT10 OK (with Mbox 3) if upgraded to Windows 7? Cubase 5 seems to run quite snappily.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[albee1952]

Pentium 4....single core I wouldn't hold much hope for the old beast. 4GB of RAM is dead minimum on a new rig, and Windows 7(which you will need as you said) needs a much more stout machine(my opinion anyway). The latest hot setup is the X79 motherboards with a socket 2011 intel i7. Anything less is just not worth sinking money into(again, my opinion). Assuming you are running 10, it certainly would make sharing projects easier, but you could just trade wave files if your friend can't afford a new rig My suggestion, he got plenty of life out of the old beast, so retire it to the internet and build a new PT rig

Maybe somebody else can offer more hope here(and it is only opinion after all).

[Zarabozo]

Originally Posted by albee1952

Pentium 4....single core I wouldn't hold much hope for the old beast. 4GB of RAM is dead minimum on a new rig, and Windows 7(which you will need as you said) needs a much more stout machine(my opinion anyway). The latest hot setup is the X79 motherboards with a socket 2011 intel i7. Anything less is just not worth sinking money into(again, my opinion). Assuming you are running 10, it certainly would make sharing projects easier, but you could just trade wave files if your friend can't afford a new rig My suggestion, he got plenty of life out of the old beast, so retire it to the internet and build a new PT rig

Maybe somebody else can offer more hope here(and it is only opinion after all).

+1

If all you guys are going to do is import his projects into your PT setup and not the other way arround, he can look for a good deal on a used mbox with PT8. That could work decently on his machine (as long as he keeps projects light and simple).

Otherwise, it will be like trying to run PT10 on a Pentium 4! Oh... wait. That's exactly what it would be. :-P

HTH

Francisco

[Dism]

Originally Posted by Marsdy

I'm looking for some help from you PC guys....

I'm using an HD3 system on a Mac Pro. I'm collaborating with a musician who is using Cubase 5 on a PC. He's thinking it would be better for him to use PT10 so we're compatible. The Mbox3 with upgrade to PT10 included looks like a great deal at the moment.

I'm not sure his PC is up to it though. It's running XP pro so I believe he'll need to upgrade to Windows 7.

The specs of his machine is as follows.
Pentium 4 3.8 Ghz overclocked to 4.22 Ghz. (It is in a well cooled 19" rack case.)
3.25 Gb RAM, SSD system drive and two drives for audio.

Would this run PT10 OK (with Mbox 3) if upgraded to Windows 7? Cubase 5 seems to run quite snappily.

Thanks in advance for any help.

SSD in a P4!

I think SATAI just barely hit the scene when P4s were peaked. That SSD might as well be a 7200RPM HDD, cuz that's about the same bandwidth coming through that old pipe. At any rate...

Windows 7 might actually run alright, but most modern software will not. Certainly not Pro Tools 10. One of my buddies has a similar system he uses for audio, and when it comes to old versions of Cubase, it's great... but anything new on it is a hog that often crashes.

Spend the money on a new computer before spending it on an MBox 3.

[Marsdy]

OK many thanks guys. It's a non-starter.

Looks like we'll be swapping WAV and MIDI files for the time being!