Computer Components, dual proc, win2k/98

speedracer wrote on 2/8/2002, 6:37 PM

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

Comments

Cheesehole wrote on 2/9/2002, 10:42 PM

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

i'd go for the dual :)

1 - yes
2 - yes NTFS file system has no filesize limit | Win98 FAT32 limits to 4GB
3 - yes
4 - yes while editing / sometimes while rendering (search forum on 'dual')
5 - looks cool to me

speedracer wrote on 2/11/2002, 12:13 AM

Cheeshole,

Hey, I'm really sorry man! I bet you're all getting sick of the same questions.

I did take your advice and searched the forums and plan to do more. There seems to be a lot of info there. However, I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my post. I'm sure I'll have more questions for ya in a bit.

I seem to be in the minority of guys using SF for dedicated audio. It appears as though VV3 for video is way more popular than VA2. Anyways, just an observation (not a very inspiring one at that).

peace,
speedracer

SHTUNOT wrote on 2/11/2002, 1:41 AM

I find it funny also that you see so many video related posts out there and so few audio. Trust me though we are here...just busy mixing on a system that works[compared to what I put myself through using other audio software]. You'll probably see much more action when the next audio upgrade comes along[not sure when...probably in a while]. There wasn't much of one in VV3 and since it works so well and its pretty straight forward of a audio update there is not much to discuss. The video got a tremendous overhaul so it makes sense why people are discussing it more.

Definitely go the Win2k/Xp route with a dual cpu mobo...your layla soundcard should do just fine with the 6.0 driver. Its almost time for the next update...It seems to go in 3 month cycles for echo. Later.