'Musical' Penguins

[panzerpenguin]

Any advice on my current pet project would be handy - I'm trying to spec out a PC to be supplied by my company in part lieu of wages (with beneficial tax implications, besides the VAT concessions to IT companies). This is the machine I intend to make unpleasant industrial 'music' on in future.

At present I want to be able to:

• Run Soundforge
• Run

Comments

[invisible_war]

Not in the position to do any research on pricing at the moment but it seems like a duel-core processor might help out out a lot since you'll be doing a lot of multiprocessing.

A quick glance at Anandtech gives this for mid-range pcs

AMD Motherboard: DFI nForce4 SLI Infinity
Price: $115 shipped (Retail)
AMD CPU: Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2x512K 2.0GHz (939) - Retail
Price: $297 shipped (Retail)
Total: $412

[invisible_war]

Then again, I don' thtink you'll need SLI if you won't be gaming on it...

[panzerpenguin]

Cheers - this is all most helpful...

[augeas]

Not of strict relevance, but thing and thing.

[smiorgan]

At a guess (since I've not done this sort of thing) you will be working with very large files, therefore the following may be beneficial

[smiorgan]

PS, does your new PC need to be v. quiet? This can be done quite cheaply, but you need to think about components. E.g. choose a motherboard with a passively cooled northbridge, and a good case (I use an Antec SLK 3700 BQE, it's good).

[panzerpenguin]

And again cheers - I've shown your spec to Mr. Jim (my boss) and we are considering the options.

Removal Request.

[ex_abraxia495]

Please remove my LJ ID from your friend list.

[gothbabe]

Check this pingu music video out. it's hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7RcqRmBlIQ