Hi!
I need a general advice. I think this is an interesting and relevant question/problem. It is mainly about memory choice, but includes most aspects of a system set-up.
Thing is that I've been holding back in investing a new machine for audio-processing (Logic Audio Platinum, and a plethora of Audio-processing programs and plugins).
This much I have decided to buy already: Adaptec 29160n (LVD/U160 adapter), Seagate Cheetah 18 Gb 15000rpm drives (2). On processor I have decided for Athlon (T-bird) as fast as available at date of purchase (well before new year).
Now, there is the excellent Abit and Asus motherboards available now (with KT133), of which I have built several successful machines for my company thus far. But in this case I was holding off for DDR-SDRAM systems coming available.
Things get complicated though. Price dropped two days ago on PC100 and PC133 SDRAM. Down to one third of the previous price!!! This means it is within my economical reach to equip a KT133 machine with 3 256 Mb PC133 SDRAM. That is 768 Mb PC133 for 4,600 SKR (swedish krona), or 6,200 SKR If I go for branded memory. I am not completely certain any DDR-SDRAM system can compete with that for any reasonable cost. Audio-processing demands lots of memory and would love all that RAM. I can however only see that this price-drop is because of the coming DDR-SDRAM memories whis should end up costing at about the previous price-levels of SDRAM which would limit me to 256 or 384 MB of DDR-memory, IF these systems will be available here in Sweden well before the New Year.
I'm not asking for a defenitive prophecy of the close future here, just a Gut-feeling. If I orderd today I would go for the ABIT KT7-Raid with T-bird 1100, 768 Mb PC133, the above hard-drive-things for Audio and a couple of good IDE-drives for system and other fun stuff. I would probably get a GeForce ultra also but I would prefer if there was any with digital out since my TFT has one such input (a Samsung 17" 1280x1024). Obviously I will hold on for a month or at least 'til about 23/11-00 when my 24/96x8 soundcard have arrived, but if the price for memory fits my forecast here maybee conventional SDRAM will be the better choice for me?
What are all your gut-instinct and opinion about this?
Best regards
Bo Eriksson
ber@donnwell.se (Work)
snake@sdplus.com (private)
I need a general advice. I think this is an interesting and relevant question/problem. It is mainly about memory choice, but includes most aspects of a system set-up.
Thing is that I've been holding back in investing a new machine for audio-processing (Logic Audio Platinum, and a plethora of Audio-processing programs and plugins).
This much I have decided to buy already: Adaptec 29160n (LVD/U160 adapter), Seagate Cheetah 18 Gb 15000rpm drives (2). On processor I have decided for Athlon (T-bird) as fast as available at date of purchase (well before new year).
Now, there is the excellent Abit and Asus motherboards available now (with KT133), of which I have built several successful machines for my company thus far. But in this case I was holding off for DDR-SDRAM systems coming available.
Things get complicated though. Price dropped two days ago on PC100 and PC133 SDRAM. Down to one third of the previous price!!! This means it is within my economical reach to equip a KT133 machine with 3 256 Mb PC133 SDRAM. That is 768 Mb PC133 for 4,600 SKR (swedish krona), or 6,200 SKR If I go for branded memory. I am not completely certain any DDR-SDRAM system can compete with that for any reasonable cost. Audio-processing demands lots of memory and would love all that RAM. I can however only see that this price-drop is because of the coming DDR-SDRAM memories whis should end up costing at about the previous price-levels of SDRAM which would limit me to 256 or 384 MB of DDR-memory, IF these systems will be available here in Sweden well before the New Year.
I'm not asking for a defenitive prophecy of the close future here, just a Gut-feeling. If I orderd today I would go for the ABIT KT7-Raid with T-bird 1100, 768 Mb PC133, the above hard-drive-things for Audio and a couple of good IDE-drives for system and other fun stuff. I would probably get a GeForce ultra also but I would prefer if there was any with digital out since my TFT has one such input (a Samsung 17" 1280x1024). Obviously I will hold on for a month or at least 'til about 23/11-00 when my 24/96x8 soundcard have arrived, but if the price for memory fits my forecast here maybee conventional SDRAM will be the better choice for me?
What are all your gut-instinct and opinion about this?
Best regards
Bo Eriksson
ber@donnwell.se (Work)
snake@sdplus.com (private)
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