I'm putting together a DAW. I will be running Vegas 2.0 Sound Forge 5.0 and Acid 3.0 on this machine. The audio card is an Echo Layla 24. I will also have a full complement of Waves plug ins (Native). Here are two proposed systems. Please let me know if I would have any potenial problems with either.
Option I
AMD XP1800 processor
ASUS A7M266 Motherboard
512 MB DDRAM PC2100
Western Digital 40 GB 7.2kRPM Hard Drive ATA100 (OS drive)
Maxtor 80GB 7.2kRPM Hard Drive ATA133 (audio files drive)
Promise ATA133 PCI IDE card
various CD-ROM, CD-R, Zip250 and floppy drives.
Windows 98SE
Option II
ASUS A7M266-D Dual processor motherboard
(2) AMD MD1600 processors
512 MB DDRAM PC2100
same as before
except Windows 2000
Specifec questions
1. Will Vegas Audio 2.0, Sound Forge 5.0 and Acid 3.0 run on Windows 2000?
2. Does Win2k have advantages over Win98 for these sonic foundry products?
3. Will Vegas Audio 2.0, Sound Forge 5.0 and Acid 3.0 run on the dual processor machine?
4. Will I see improved speed, power, stability with a dual proc machine?
3. Any other potential conflics or problems I should be aware of with either system
Any advice you could give would be excellent!
later,
speedracer
Option I
AMD XP1800 processor
ASUS A7M266 Motherboard
512 MB DDRAM PC2100
Western Digital 40 GB 7.2kRPM Hard Drive ATA100 (OS drive)
Maxtor 80GB 7.2kRPM Hard Drive ATA133 (audio files drive)
Promise ATA133 PCI IDE card
various CD-ROM, CD-R, Zip250 and floppy drives.
Windows 98SE
Option II
ASUS A7M266-D Dual processor motherboard
(2) AMD MD1600 processors
512 MB DDRAM PC2100
same as before
except Windows 2000
Specifec questions
1. Will Vegas Audio 2.0, Sound Forge 5.0 and Acid 3.0 run on Windows 2000?
2. Does Win2k have advantages over Win98 for these sonic foundry products?
3. Will Vegas Audio 2.0, Sound Forge 5.0 and Acid 3.0 run on the dual processor machine?
4. Will I see improved speed, power, stability with a dual proc machine?
3. Any other potential conflics or problems I should be aware of with either system
Any advice you could give would be excellent!
later,
speedracer