Hello Everyone! I am about to take the plunge here with my first home-studio recording machine. I would LOVE to hear any opionions here on my choice of hardware as I still remain flexible. If you see me doing something stupid, PLEASE let me know! :0) Here it is: Soyo Dragon Ultra Black Motherboard Athlon XP 2700+ Maxtor 7200 8megbuffer 80 gb hardrives (2 Will be done in IDE RAID) Corsair CAS2 DDR400 Ram 1gb Round Ide and floppy cables Flooppy Drive Sony DVD burner (dvd+r/w dvd-r/w etc.) Nexus CPU Cooler KC222700 Nexus Istyle Case NVidia Geforce 4 ti 4600 Zalhman 92mm quiet Casefan Nexus Real Silent 400W Powersupply Zahlman heatpipe ZM80A-HP (for graphics card) Zahlman NB32j Heatsink for NorthBridge chipset Teratech EWS88 MT Whaddya think? I have a removeable hard drive tray for the first drive, the second two will be raid0 (IDE highpoint), so I can have two totally separate OS's: one for recording, the other for gaming. Does any of this smack of latency problems? Does anyone recommend where I put my swap space (on raid or off)? What do you think of my soundcard choice? Is it too much? I wanted something with a-d d-a on board with midi, and I love the fact that it snaps into a 5 1/2" bay. Anyone have any issues with the mobo I picked? lastly: Does anyone know if the Zahlman CNPS7000-cu will work on an Athlon XP chip? Everything I saw only mentioned a P4 or a Clawhammer chip. I would love to dump the nexus and go for this if I know that it is compatible. Please be gentle, I am new to digital recording, but I am very excited to get started!! Thanks everyone! Chris
