Purchasing new computer, please advise

[nrgy]

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/...49,pg,8,00.asp

[Panopticon]

Originally Posted by Hollowcell

how many seperate effects did you use? and did you use any compressors, limiters or any other demanding plugins?

Every track had waves L1 and RVerb, which are both demanding; the other three were varied between amplitube, distortion, chorus, etc.

[TommyS]

Were you playing any audio on them or were the tracks empty with just effetcs on top.

A screen shot would be nice

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by nrgy

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112749,pg,8,00.asp :D

Hoho! Single processor Athlon beats dual-G5?! Good grief! I wonder what happens if you get dual-Athlon (which probably costs the same as dual-G5)!

[nrgy]

and another one, for ppl who wants to read about mac g5 vs. amd 64 fx-51

http://www.alienware.com/review_page...world_1203.asp



quote "50-90 % more processing power than mac g5" 8O

[Juho L]

By the way how much does that dual-G5 cost?

[Juho L]

Originally Posted by nrgy

quote "50-90 % more processing power than mac g5" 8O

There are some serious trouble in Mac camp. How the heck that dual-G5 system can be slower than single AMD even the both are 64-bit processors?

[nrgy]

Originally Posted by Juho L

There are some serious trouble in Mac camp. How the heck that dual-G5 system can be slower than single AMD even the both are 64-bit processors?

I have no idea I'm just surfing the net, to try and find most information about amd fx-51 64 bit and/vs. Mac G5 dual2.2(?)

[nrgy]

Originally Posted by TommyS

Were you playing any audio on them or were the tracks empty with just effetcs on top.

A screen shot would be nice

I want to see a screenshot too if you did one