Hi-end Desktop Sound Card?

[john]

Hey

I managed to get my Carillon music PC working again. Yay! In doing so it made me realise just how old it is now. I bought it in 2000, a 1 Gig processor, 512Mb Ram, and 2 Creamware reconfigurable DSP sound cards which cost more than the rest of the PC! All in it was a little more than £3000.

So I thought I'd look into upgrading it. I can't afford to at the moment, but I wanted to get an idea of how much it would cost. Scarey. Basically I would need to replace everything inside the desktop. I could probably keep the soundcards.

But that made me think, as a comparison, what would a new system cost? I've priced up a new Base unit, but I'm a little out of touch with the latest in sound cards.

So, any recommendations?

Cheers

John

[Steve]

What happened? Did you get any info?

[Chokai]

For just over £600 i built my own audio PC. Its SO much cheaper to just build it yourself. A friend of mine has a carillion and he loathed to upgrade after buying in 2000 too. There seems to be this huge gap between pro and standard soundcards nowdays, a high-end standard goes for just £200 or so, then there this huge leap up to pro starting at £400 plus..

I would buy a mac with pro tools.

[Bitstream]

I just purchased the following:

New mother board DDR2 800 MHz

Intel Core 2 Duo

2 Gb fast ddr2 800 MHz dimms (4:4:4)

A nice big juicy fan

£310

[Steve]

I just purchased the following:

New mother board DDR2 800 MHz

Intel Core 2 Duo

2 Gb fast ddr2 800 MHz dimms (4:4:4)

A nice big juicy fan

£310

I just bought the same for £246. with case and 2 Sata hard drives.

[sub7th]

Just built a really powerful PC for my Mother-in-Law.

If you're looking to build your own nows a good time to by AMD AM2 equipment, new processors, ram and mainboards are coming out and the prices on the old AM2 stuff is dropping pretty fast.

If i remember right the 3GHz AMD X2 was like $160 = £77

Really nice Asus Main board was $120 = £58

DDR2 RAM in the 400mhz FSB range is dropping as well since the new 800-1300 is coming out.

That mainboard I got her supported up to 8GB's of RAM as well.

As you probably know the RAM is the Spice and he who controls the spice...

</geek>

P.S.

SATA RAID Striping is not supported by Pro-Tools just incase you are thinking of going that route, or if you use PT.