Recession DAW

[vulcan_dc]

Hello.. i am building a DAW on a recession budget... ;)

question is, My OS is 32 bit and so are all my programs... so .. is there any advantage going in for 64 bit chip (core2DUO)???

By the way... Intel DG45ID mother board, was what i am looking at...

All opinions are welcome... Cheers mates

[TimOBrien]

Lots of downsides... unless EVERYTHING (os, programs, hardware/interface drivers and plugins) is 64-bit you'll have problems.

Make a long detailed list of everything you've got BEFORE you jump.

[vulcan_dc]

Thank you very much for the reply Tim.

I have decided to go for the 64 bit processor (i dont want to pinch a dollar on that).. although a new mother board was suggested, the Intel DG35EC . It has all that i need. Although i have no idea if the Firewire chip is TI ... i am unable to find info on the web either... :(

Thanks once again..

cheers

[Togglehead]

Thank you very much for the reply Tim.

I have decided to go for the 64 bit processor (i dont want to pinch a dollar on that).. although a new mother board was suggested, the Intel DG35EC . It has all that i need. Although i have no idea if the Firewire chip is TI ... i am unable to find info on the web either... :(

Thanks once again..

cheers

Wait, so you bought a 64 bit chip for a 32 bit OS and applications?

What a waste. My first advice...return it and get a 32-bit chip.

[vulcan_dc]

hello..

no i have not bought the processor yet...

What processor do u suggest...?..

cheers and thanks for responding.

[sabianq]

all modern processors are 64bit capable (sans the Atom 230 by intel). it is silly to think that it is a waste of money to buy a 64 bit CPU. any modern CPU will work great for what you are trying to acheive.
your bottle neck in speed is your hard drive. I suggest getting the fastest hard drive you can lay your hands on for the operating system and applications and a reliable, fast and big hard drive for recording.

dont partition any of the hard drives. and max out your memory.

DDR2 is very cheap now days. while a 32bit operating system cannot use more than 3 gigs of ram, the bios allocates the rest of the ram that is not being used for system resources.

gigabyte motherboards with an intel chipset and an intel cpu will be a good match.

good luck and have fun...

[vulcan_dc]

oh yeah sabian.. i just figured that out too.. the E5200 is a 64 bit processor and i for all along thought it was a 32 bit one... i guess i was fooled by the "dual core" logo on it and the price difference between it and the core2duo 2.8ghz processor...

i would take a look at the gigabyte board.. thanks... i am actually taking to a someone who knows a bit about MOBOs and stuff tomorrow... probably its best he guides me with what is available and would work for me... i am so outta touch with the new line of processors and boards..

cheers

[vulcan_dc]

So.. My recession DAW is made... :)

AMD Phenom Quad 9650
Asus MOBO
4 GB ram
500 GB SATA HDD, two of them.
Nvidea display (dual head) with 512 RAM on it.

i havent really pushed it yet to check.. but under normal conditions it seems to work quite adequately...

cheers...