2 PC or not 2 PC. That is the question?

[AndrewW]

What I would do would be - get the new computer and run tracks and VSTi's on it. And have the other computer take care of your FX needs.
I have XP-2k+ at 1.6ghz and have 2 UAD1 cards (which sound great and use them all the time) and just ordered Powercore Firewire. This should give me another few months before I'll have to upgrade my CPU. And that I'm planning before the end of the summer, or maybe little later. But from what it looks like now I would go with P4 3.4ghz, 2gigs of ram, Matrox G650 and few 10k Rapitor Hdrives. Unless AMD gets their act together and offers few new socket 939 CPUs, and NVidia chipset for it.

[Armadillo]

Never tried firewire. Gigabits are WAY too much money and 10/100 does a pretty decent job for me.

Don't I just need 2 of THESE?

Hardly too much money. AndrewW suggestion is though. I've got less than £100 to spend unfortunately. I already have 2 pc's. xp2000 and p3 550 mhz.

[nollock]

My 1.6 Ghz PC is cofting up blood (thanks to Z3ta+)

Try turning the FX off on Zeta, i found that alot of the patches are chewing CPU because of the FX, expecialy the reverbs.

chris

[nollock]

hey, I have a desktop xp2500 barton

but it is said not to be possible to tweak...

can this be true?

You need a MB that suports tweaking. I have an xp2500 barton core and I can set the multiplier from 7x up to 15x in the bios. 11x being the proper setting.

chris

[nuffink]

hey, I have a desktop xp2500 barton

but it is said not to be possible to tweak...

can this be true?

You need a MB that suports tweaking. I have an xp2500 barton core and I can set the multiplier from 7x up to 15x in the bios. 11x being the proper setting.

chris

AMD have locked the multiplier on recent xp2500's due to the damage it was doing to xp3200 sales.

[nollock]

Never tried firewire. Gigabits are WAY too much money and 10/100 does a pretty decent job for me.

Don't I just need 2 of THESE?

Hardly too much money. AndrewW suggestion is though. I've got less than £100 to spend unfortunately. I already have 2 pc's. xp2000 and p3 550 mhz.

Have you considered selling your old p3, then you could have enough to do a decent upgrade to your current system. If you can get £100 for your p3 added to the money you already have you could probably get...

Xp3000 for £100
New MB for ~£50
and some Extra Ram if posible.

And that would probably be more powerfull than your xp2000 and your P3 combined...

chris

[DevonB]

Just checked a couple of dealers. Audiophile 2496 is £70 in the UK.

Check again, I just heard M-Audio dropped their prices.

Devon

[Armadillo]

Just checked a couple of dealers. Audiophile 2496 is £70 in the UK.

Check again, I just heard M-Audio dropped their prices.

Devon

That IS the dropped price. Some dealers still sell it for £120.
I've checked about 8 dealers.

Nollick: If I sold the P3 the wife would have to use my DAW We wouldn't want that would we

[Sepheritoh]

Never tried firewire. Gigabits are WAY too much money and 10/100 does a pretty decent job for me.

Don't I just need 2 of THESE?

Hardly too much money. AndrewW suggestion is though. I've got less than £100 to spend unfortunately. I already have 2 pc's. xp2000 and p3 550 mhz.

I know we are being screwed in Africa with technology, but the price difference here was huge. A quote for 1GB system was about R8,000 (let's see, that's about US1,200) versus 10/100 system for R1,400, (about US$200). That included the hub with 4 PCs wired up located in 3 different rooms plus all wiring through the roof.

[edit: PS the quotes excluded the PCs itself off-course]