BIOS tweaking
 

I bought a i7 Quad Core system Win7 64nit from Carillon, which i would NOT recommend to you all.
Not the best service!!!

any way i noticed that i still had to do some BIOS tweaking to get ridd of some audio pops and clicks that i didn't expect.
basicly you better turn off those "Green" options in your BIOS.
since it will sometimes force the PC to put an item in sleep for instance and out of sleep, causing some noticable audio disruptions.
When you are working you don't want energy saving crap, if you want to save the planet you wouldn't be in electronic music : -)

consult you BIOS manual, you really can win some.

Intel i7 920
6 Gb 1333 MGHz RAM
Gigabyte UD3R motherboard
7200 RPM 1 TB hard drive
NVidia 512 BAsic Graphic card

and the remaining peripherals..keyboard , mouse, monitor etc...

I guess vanta dood has built and dumped 2 systems by now - thread is 4 years old :)

Lol ... :D

I wonder what he built finally .. ?

I bet that old fuck didn't build anything and bought a premade PC. Hoho.

I'm due a new build now cubase 6 is out. It's been that long I've got no idea where to start.

Same here mitchie. I need to make the move to Win7 as I've started using Vienna Ensemble, and 3.14 gb of RAM simply does not cut it. I had Cubase 5 running on my win7 laptop but it was completely unstable, so going to test 6 first before deciding to build a whole new rig...

Just got my new one:

Intel i7 970 (6 Core) 3.2GHZ
12gb RAM PC16000 2000MHZ
10,000RPM HD
x58a-ud3r Motherboard

Geekarific!

Definitely recommend building it yourself, so much cheaper.

Nice board, I have the Rev 1 version of that board (so not entirely sure it applies to you) but myself and a LOT of others had/have problems with it making a loud high pitched wine noise from either the board or the PSU.

Drove me nuts for a month before I cured it. It hadn't set the memory frequency correctly so I set it manually and it solved the problem. Anyway I hope yours don't squeak!

My PC is right by my left knee and almost totally silent except for a very slight hum. :D

I'm still running the Core i7 965 (3.2ghz running in turbo mode so more like 3.5) I bought 2 years ago, and it does better for me now actually than it did when I bought it as a software synth engine, because the VSTs have gotten much better, more efficient, and I can now do with my PC what a room full of hardware would not have done 10 years ago.

A recent new addition to my box is a GTX590 video card, which I think is utilized great for graphics but not for music. These things have amazing parallelism , and there are a couple of vendors that have released plugins that run straight off CUDA (the development kit for nvidia processors). Look up Liquidsonics "reverberate le" and Nebula3, for example. I love the idea that when I don't need hardcore 3D graphics, plugins can be using my GPU as if it were a powercore. God knows it is probably close in total processing power to my CPU, so I should be able to offload some of my music processing to it? Especially since this video card has a fucking 3GB of RAM, and processing power that will make your jaw drop, and make pretty much all of Apple's product line look like piss.

Well the point to the message is that I would like to see Access partner with nVidia, and write a plugin that utilizes the CUDA SDK. I don't see why I would need to add yet another card (powercore) to do this (i.e. have a Virus on a PC card) today. I think the parallel processing capability of the 590 basically takes a dump on the TC Powercore if just looking at hardware. How easy is it to develop for powercore versus nVidia GPU? That I can't speculate about, haven't done either.