musicteedon
01-07-2008, 06:46 AM
Hello All,
My Asus A7N8X-VM400 motherboard has fried inside my old desktop computer....did well for it's 6 years or so, but now the end has come for it. Product lifecycle I guess. It was my first DAW and I built it mostly from Audio Forums recommendations several years back.
It was plugging along as a custom built machine running inside an Aspire X-Infinity case (I think this one supports the regular ATX Form Factor, not only micro-atx), with two hard drives, an AMD Athlon XP 3200 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 400W Power Supply, and the Radeon 9600 "All in Wonder" dual monitor card. Although everything worked well for years, I thought I was having driver troubles with that video card before the complete MOBO failure hit me. It's hard to tell if it was cause or effect.
I bought a new VISTA based machine that has resolved my basic computing needs (non-recording, internet etc). I needed a quick solution for that and the cost was right, so the logic "it's cheaper to buy a new computer than to upgrade" was already applied.
Now I want to dust off and resurrect the old desktop computer for it's intended purpose of AUDIO only.
I have Cubase SX-3, Sonar 7, Reason 4, Finale 2007 among other software. Right now my only in/out box is a MI-4 midi/audio box that came with my older version of Cubase SL3. This box works well enough on my laptop with Cubase SX3 though it's kind of fickle. It doesn't work with my Sonar 7 at all.
I plan to get another in/out box, not sure yet which one. Maybe something that can run PRO-TOOLS as well as the CUBASE, SONAR 7 I want it to be USB or Firewire because I want to do recording on my desktop when at home, and use my laptop when out and about.
Can you guys recommend?
1. A motherboard that will fit inside the X-Infinity Case, have both firewire and USB, run the Athlon XP 3200 (or other recommended CPU) and the above mentioned software ?
(I plan to keep windows XP on it.)
2. A soundcard that will be compatible with this rig/software combination.
Thank you so very much for your recommendations and advice.
Don
My Asus A7N8X-VM400 motherboard has fried inside my old desktop computer....did well for it's 6 years or so, but now the end has come for it. Product lifecycle I guess. It was my first DAW and I built it mostly from Audio Forums recommendations several years back.
It was plugging along as a custom built machine running inside an Aspire X-Infinity case (I think this one supports the regular ATX Form Factor, not only micro-atx), with two hard drives, an AMD Athlon XP 3200 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 400W Power Supply, and the Radeon 9600 "All in Wonder" dual monitor card. Although everything worked well for years, I thought I was having driver troubles with that video card before the complete MOBO failure hit me. It's hard to tell if it was cause or effect.
I bought a new VISTA based machine that has resolved my basic computing needs (non-recording, internet etc). I needed a quick solution for that and the cost was right, so the logic "it's cheaper to buy a new computer than to upgrade" was already applied.
Now I want to dust off and resurrect the old desktop computer for it's intended purpose of AUDIO only.
I have Cubase SX-3, Sonar 7, Reason 4, Finale 2007 among other software. Right now my only in/out box is a MI-4 midi/audio box that came with my older version of Cubase SL3. This box works well enough on my laptop with Cubase SX3 though it's kind of fickle. It doesn't work with my Sonar 7 at all.
I plan to get another in/out box, not sure yet which one. Maybe something that can run PRO-TOOLS as well as the CUBASE, SONAR 7 I want it to be USB or Firewire because I want to do recording on my desktop when at home, and use my laptop when out and about.
Can you guys recommend?
1. A motherboard that will fit inside the X-Infinity Case, have both firewire and USB, run the Athlon XP 3200 (or other recommended CPU) and the above mentioned software ?
(I plan to keep windows XP on it.)
2. A soundcard that will be compatible with this rig/software combination.
Thank you so very much for your recommendations and advice.
Don