Ok, I am building a machine from scratch to mix and record live music with Ardour. Please look at my specs and offer any feedback. Motherboard: Asus K8N http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/socket754/k8n/overview.htm Processor: AMD Athlon 64 (I haven?t decided on the speed, though price will play a factor here. Probably the 3400.) Ram: 2 ? 1GB DDR400 PC3200 ram cards. Hard Drive: I am looking at 2 80GB 7200 RPM ATA drives to use in a RAID configuration, which is apparently supported on the board. Any comments on this are welcomed! CD Burner I have a TEAC CD burner that I am planning on using. It?s fast. I?ll use a 2 space rack case with a PCI and AGP riser cards. I?ll probably just get a cheap-o AGP video card if no one thinks it matters. Audio I/O will be accomplished with the ST Audio DSP3000 with an additional ADC&DAC3000 for a total of 16 channels of full duplex 24/96 I/O. I?ll may add a 3rd ADC&DAC3000 unit at some point. Kernel: I am thinking of using eh CCRMA FC3 i86_64 kernel if we think that?s workable. I have heard grumblings about AMD 64 and CCRMA. If it?s bad, I?ll use Gentoo. Any help here would be great. Transportation: 6 or 8 space PA rack with shock mounts. Control Surface: This is an unanswered question as of now. Video: I am thinking of getting a rack video/keyboard deal like from a server room but they seem really expensive. Any comments? Thanks in advance for any feedback. Matt
