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adowrx wrote on 9/15/2004, 9:09 AM
What type of work do you plan on recording and what are your expectations and budget?? Below is my current main rig that is getting a little long in the tooth (It's a little over a year old) but it is Very stable besides an occasional zoom bug.

Intel D850mv2 mb 533fsb
P4 2.4
1 gig Ram
Adaptec 21960 SCSI Card
Matrox 450 Dual Head Video Card
(1) 18 G Seagate Cheetah 10K SCSI (Apps)
(2) 68 G Seagate Cheetah 10K (Work Drives)
Win 2K sp4
Motu 2408
1 Motu 24i
Vegas 3
Cubase SX 2.20.35

My Old DAW has an old Supermicro MB, 512 Ram, PIII 600, Win 2k, Motu 2408, Generic SCSI card w/10K Cheetahs for Apps and Audio. It was actually very stable and I used to get what I thought was ample track plug in count on it. Track 16, OD 8 more and get quite a few plugs running once the buffer was kicked up to a mix level, although most of my reverbs are hardware based.



-jb
dbOS:||00 wrote on 9/15/2004, 11:46 PM
The celeron D processors, while benefiting from the increased frontside bus, has the same256k L2 cache as almost every P3 (aside from the tautalin, which I believe has a 512k L2 cache), so it should be more powerful than an aging p3, chances are that it is more powerful. HOwever you should be aware that for the same price as a new celeron D with the 533mhz fsb, you can get a P4 with the 533mhz fsb, it will have at least 2x the L2 cache, if not 4x (if you find a 533mhz fsb prescott, they have 1M L2 cache) what I'm getting at, is that the L2 cache is extreemly crucial, it will determine how complex the instructions, that the cpu performs, are. Personally, I'd rather go for the P4, if only for the L2 cache, but also because the P4 was designed for numbercrunching, and processing algorithms in workstations, where as the celeron family has always been intended for the family desktop