On 16 January 2009 at 0:52, Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I wouldn't. I don't know about whatever extra noise damping they do. I put an Acousti-Pak (same stuff they use) in a couple home built computers. It's really great stuff. It's going in all my future computers. > I can tell you that my Asus P3-PH5X is pretty darn quiet, and > it was all stock parts bought from Newegg. My last computer (until the CPU fan decided to get noisy when I had to swap out a dead motherboard) was so quiet I could only tell it was on by the light on the front. That's my target for "quiet". > The memory they're offering is on the slow side. The cpu and hd are low > on cache memory. I think you can do better. Because I've been shopping, > some examples from Newegg this week: > > A Core 2 Duo at 3.0 Ghz with 12 Mb L2 cache: $169 > DDR3 1600 RAM around $130 for 2Gb, about half that for DDR2. > A 1Tb Hitachi sata drive with 32Mb cache for $79 after all the rebates. > Asus P3-PH5 for $179. Yes, it seems I could do better. I'm trying to stay close to $1000US. But, it also looks like I'm building a different version of about the same power machine as my Athlon 64-X2. I thought maybe upgrading to quad-core would be a nice upgrade. But really, my dual-core box only benefits me when I compile software. I haven't found all that much threading in apps yet. It might not be the right time for me to upgrade. I was trying to take advantage of the drop in computer prices. > I would maximze ram and cache to optimize performance. The more you run > from ram instead of drive based swap, the better. Agreed. Thanks... -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
