Methods of coping with the wait for the TI

[Simonb]

Originally Posted by ten

Well, ive spent the last couple of months speccing and building my new DAW while waiting for the TI.

Its cost a pretty penny but it should be worth it.

Here is the run down of what it features....

Dual AMD Opteron 250 (2.4ghz) E step .90nm cpus
Swiftech H20-120-DB (rev3) dual opteron water cooling kit
Tyan 'Thunder K8WEX' (S2895) Dual Opteron nforce4 pro SLI SCSI version motherboard
4gig (4x1gb) Corsair EEC registered DDR400/3200 ram running (2 for each cpu, dual chan, NUMA enabled)
1x Maxtor Atlas II 36gb 15k u320 scsi drive (main OS drive, dual boot winxp pro(32 /PAE enabled) and winxp pro(64) (ch1 onboard scsi)
2x Maxtor Atlas II 73gb 15k u320 scsi drives (1 for audio programs/vstis - other for audio samples/streaming) (both ch2 onboard scsi)
2x Maxtor Diamond Max plus 10 16mb cache 300gb SATA drives (both for main scsi hard drive backup images and misc file storage) (NCQ enabled)
Silverstone ST64ZF 650watt split plane (4x 12v) EPS12/SSI PSU
Matrox Millennium P650 128 PCI-Express graphics card running dual output at 1920x1200 DVI (in pci-e slot 1 routed through nforce4 pro 2050 to cpu 2)
LaCie 64bit PCI-X Firewire 800 card (in slot A 133mhz pcix slot) (routed through amd8131 to cpu1 bypassing nforce4)
Magma 7 slot 32bit/33mhz PCI expansion chassis (connected to cpu2/nforce4 pro 2200 bypassing amd8131)
RME FireFace 800 (connected to lacie firewire card at 800mbs bypassing nforce4)
4x UAD1 dsp pci cards (all on same IRQ inside magma chassis)
2x TC powercore dsp pci cards (all on same IRQ inside magma chassis)
2x Dell 24-inch 2405FPW LCD (running dual outputs both at 1920x1200 DVI each)

I have all the parts already, just the motherboard now which should arrive next Thursday and then its complete, excited to say the least

Should do me good for a few tracks and vstis lol

ten

Holy fuck! 8O You bitch!

I'm just biting my nails waiting...