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[Minimal DJ]

first of all, welcome :
MOBO:ASUS Rampage Formula
HDD: Going with WD 640GB 16mb cache, Thx CTA for suggestion.
CPU:Bought E8400 + Vendetta 2 Off matsta
GPU: Bought ASUS HD 4850 With VF1000
PSU: Bought Zalman 600W
Case: CM690 Off Canadacomputers
Ram: Bought 2x2GB ReaperX PC28000 From Sphere, Thx man !

I live in montreal, accept shipping more than pick up, i have paypal.
hey i'm pretty new here, i've been using a laptop for 2 years now, gotta build a powerful system for some gaming but mainly for Producing music, if you can suggest, your more than welcome !
thanks for looking

[Squeetard]

the Raptor will be good as your OS and to run your audio software and record with. But you will need a Large drive for storage as Audio recording will eat up 150gb in a hurry.

[S_G]

Like Squeetard said. Any remotely high-quality audio capture will gobble up that space quickly. If you really want speed, I say try two 1TB Caviar Black drives in RAID0, or 4 drives (for 2TB) in RAID0+1 for data redundancy.

Also, 700W is excessive for your build though. Anything 500W or more will do. As for the sound card, M-Audio has quite a few external solutions:
M-AUDIO - PCI Audio Interfaces
M-AUDIO - FireWire Audio Interfaces
M-AUDIO - USB Audio Interfaces

Good luck with your build though!

[phil3_66666]

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[Minimal DJ]

i have a good question, should the wait for X58 and Nehalem be justified ?

[Dead Things]

Originally Posted by Minimal DJ

i have a good question, should the wait for X58 and Nehalem be justified ?

Certainly not for gaming - but for your audio work, quite likely Nehalem will be better suited to that sort of work.

But - this is Intel's first foray into integrated memory controllers, and I fully expect there to be some hickups and glitches at first. Personally speaking, I will have nothing to do with Nehalem at launch.

[Minimal DJ]

great ! thanks alot, would probably upgrade next September.

[norfolk]

I have some part"s that are not on your list but are pretty fast for what your doing:
AMD phenom 9850 BE
ASUS M3N78-EMH HDMI
Mushkin XP2-8500 2X2 gig /With 3DMARK VANTAGE SPECIAL EDITION
Check some of the price"s online for these part"s and send me an offer.
I have all related packaging and hardware for all 3 item"s.Perfect for shipping.
Thank You

[matsta31]

I am in montreal (no shipping cost), and I got E8400 + one of the 2 best cpu heasink, Vendetta 2. Contact me if interested.

[Minimal DJ]

thanks again matsta.