AudioCAD

[apocope_mode]

Hello hello hello. I am building a computer for 2 reasons: 1) I go to school for audio production and would finally like to have a new computer for recording (doing both midi and audio work) and 2) My girlfriend goes to school for design and needs to run AutoCAD. So here's the specs, but will it do the job?

Epox EP-8RDA+ board
Athlon 2500+ (Barton)
512MB RAM (PC2700)
Windows 2000
Seagate 60 gig
Lite on 52x24x52
Matrox G550 video card

I won't go into boring details of what Thermaltake fans and what case, etc. etc. I will be getting. I seems it will be a decent computer for audio (?) but will it run CAD smoothly....do I need a better video card?

Thanks for your help!

Justin

[DS_Sultan]

AutoCAD will run fine on that machine. Just don't have it rendering anything whilst your playing back your humongo tracks!

[This message has been edited by DS_Sultan (edited 05-07-2003).]

[~wavechop~]

hello

should work fine with autocad...my advice is to create a multi-boot set up and do strictly music on one OS partition and autocad and whatever else on the other. and try not to hook this computer up to the internet.

I've ran Autocad(mostly 3d modeling)and photoshop for six years in a 400mhz p2 w/ 512mb ram win98 for my architecture stuff and was working perfectly. I had sonar and sound forge installed in there too and was getting good results with those softwares...of course rendering 3d models required a lot of time because of the CPU speed but was overall reliable. your set up is fine for autocad...i upgraded now to a 2.53mhz p4 640mb ram...wasn't working properly when i first ran it. I was running XP and had to turn off a lot of unneccessary features and components in order to solve the dropout problems with sonar. once i solved the dropout problems i began installing autocad, photoshop, nero, illustratoretc. and i ran into sync problems...my solution was to create a multi-boot setup with win98 strictly running sonar and sound forge for my music and XP running autocad and whatever else...works perfectly!...so far lol

good luck

[Bops2000]

I run Land development desktop 2I on a p3 450, at work, as well as a copy of my sonar 2xl for giggles. I do Have 2 hard drives though, and I think it best to have some drive room to play with. I personally would pick up a moderately priced hard drive for AUTOCAD, and keep the seagate for yourself (of course you don't have to tell Her that http://www.audioforums.com/forums/smile.gif )
Boppers