The thing is with the videocard. I have a 20 inch DVI-D LCD widescreen here, do I still need a beefy video card to maintain performance (I do not play games) or can I stick with a simple DVI card?
Alright, thanks man… I’ll double check that. Can’t wait to get it up and running. I’ve been tracking with a pentium III 900 for the last 3 years so this will be rockin’
personally I’d get more than 512 megs of RAM if I were you…1 gig seems to suffice for most applications but I do know people that swear by having twice that…
If you can afford the extra $$ upfront, more RAM will never hurt, and more often than not, help.
The only odd thing I’ve noticed is that the CPU meter in Renoise sometimes appears to be wrong, as if it’s monitoring the wrong CPU core or something. For example, sometimes Renoise will show a constant 99% CPU usage when nothing is actually playing (or even loaded). Other times the meter behaves normally as you’d expect.
well, actually I’m selling it for a bunch of euros:
after a long deal, we eastablished that he will give me 86.71€ and a kiss on a cheek (really ), which is bargain, after all, and he doesn’t use ReNoise, so he is fine with HyperThreading.
Already thought about that… RAM you can’t have enough indeed, so I’m going for a dual channel 512 mb pair. I’m glad to hear that I made the right choice to go with AMD (also read the story IT-Alien had with his Intel machine that made me go this way). Thanks for the feedback guys! This is going to be a nice setup.
One thing… I was thinking about to get an Asus motherboard with FireWire built in for the MOTU soundcard. How stable is FireWire under windows? I know it rocks on an Apple but never used it on a Windows machine…
Another point is the CPU cache… The one I have on the list has 512 … should I consider going 1 mb? And how much benefit do I get performance wise?
BTW. 2way opterons (dual core that can also be in a dual cpu setup) went down 53% a couple of days ago. So it is now possible to get a quad cpu setup without going bankrupt.
This is on socket 940 though and you will need registered RAM for this setup.
Just something to think about anyway
So when will renoise get a multithreaded audioengine?
I’m trying to stay under 900 euro’s with the PC setup so a Quad Opteron will probably tip me over Rest of the money will go to a decent soundcard like the Motu experimental stuff with outboard gear and routing.
Ok, after reading a lot of reviews this is finally the setup that I’m getting. I have not build it yet but I’ll let you know how it went and what the performance is.
Case: Antec Sonata Lifestyle II Black, 450 W, 1 X 120mm
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ Dual Core 2.0 GHz, 2000 MHz, Boxed
Memory: TwinMos Dual Channel 1024 MB, PC3200, 400 MHz, 2,5, Kit Of 2
Harddisk: Western Digital Raptor 74 GB, 10.000 Rpm, 8 MB, Serial ATA/150
Graphicscard: XFX VGA GeForce 6600 Silent 256 MB
Extra’s:
Arctic Freezer 64 Pro Aluminium (replace the stock cpu cooler for less noise)
Zalman ZM-F2 92mm Fan (extra fan in air-duct that cools the cpu)
Zalman ZM-NB47J Passive Northbridge Cooler Aluminium Blue (replace fan with passive fan on motherboard)
I’ve set up my new Athlon 64 X2 4200+ with 3GB of RAM, and I have say that it performs about 200% better than the previous P4 3Ghz and 2GB with ReNoise:
I’ve tried it with my latest song, and the CPU gets about 50% less charged with half latency.
Too bad that Norton Ghost has destroyed all of my primary HD data, so I have to reinstall everything from scratch again…
That’s a great performance boost can’t wait to get the system up! To bad to hear of your corrupted backup though always a drag to reinstall everything from scratch… no songs lost I hope?
After only 5 months of operation my Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 (not pro) died on me Actually not really died but started to generate vibration as hell and of course the noise that comes along with it. It seemd to me that it somehow went off the balance or something. I dont know, maybe i just got the faulty one. But anyway, i dont have the time to start messing with the warranty bullshit process, cause i cant use my comp without a cooler. So i bouth myself Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu today…
EDIT:
by the way i bought the same passive chipset cooler also today while i was at it. Seems pretty OK. Although i had to breake apart whole computer to get to other side of the mobo for removing the stock cooler. I hate those push-pin connectors
Anyway, everything is up and running now and as we say here “if ending is good, then all good”
To bad to hear the Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 started to behave badly. I haven’t heard anyone else having the same problems. The PRO version seems to be on par with Zalman but doesn’t attract that much dust and is about the same noise level and ofcourse cheaper.
Thanks for sharing your story with passive fan on the motherboard. It would be a typical thing for me to build the pc with the motherboard in it and then get everything out because I forgot to do that first
yeah i havent heard also anybody having problems with arctic cooling freezer… i guess it was just my bad luck
hehe and dont forget the CPU cooler backplate too
And if you remove your stock chipset fan and it connects to the mobo with those crazy push-pins then you have to cut them off on the other side… At least i couldnt figure out another way to remove them… Why cant they use screws for that? EDIT: and be careful not to damage the mobo while doing it…
so this will be rockin’ 
), which is bargain, after all, and he doesn’t use ReNoise, so he is fine with HyperThreading.
Actually not really died but started to generate vibration as hell and of course the noise that comes along with it. It seemd to me that it somehow went off the balance or something. I dont know, maybe i just got the faulty one. But anyway, i dont have the time to start messing with the warranty bullshit process, cause i cant use my comp without a cooler. So i bouth myself Zalman CNPS7000B-Cu today…
EDIT: and be careful not to damage the mobo while doing it…