Hi Chris I did the same thing a couple of months ago, and am happy with my setup. Specs follow. Asus P4PE Motherboard Intel Pentium IV 2.4Ghz at 533Mhz FSB 2 x 512MB PC2700 RAM, (Total of 1GB) Seagate 40GB ATA-100 IDE hard drive, for operating systems, mainly Linux and Win2k. Seagate 80GB ATA-100 IDE hard drive, for all audio and sample data. Matrox Millennium G550 dual head AGP video card. TerraTec DMX 6FIRe 24/96 soundcard, as I don't need a lot of ins and outs, and wanted MIDI and digital interfaces. With this setup, I am able to get very low latency in Windows, approx 1-3 ms, and a bit lower with Linux and ardour/softsynths via JACK. hth Luke. At 09:10 AM 3/19/2003, you wrote: >Hi guys! (and gals). > >I am looking into building a new machine, and I want to do some >home-studio recording with it. I was hoping that some of you could lend >some of your expert advice. > >It sounds like SCSI is pretty-much a must in these situations, true? What >I was wondering about in particular is if anyone has tried anything like >this: Setting up a machine with an IDE hard drive to hold the system >files (say an ata 133 7200 rpm...) and a scsi disk for the dumping ground >of the audio programs such as ecasound, audacity or Ardour. I think I >would put the swap partition on the scsi drive as well. Obviously I am >trying to save a little money here, and I am trying to minimize >latency. (I think that somewhere around the $2K mark is my limit.) I am >accustomed to using multitrack analog units, but digital/computer >recording is still extremely new to me. > >Any thoughts on this? > >I would also love to hear any suggestions regarding what disks, >motherboards, cases and heatsinks people recommend and have had luck with. > >Thanks! > >Chris
