@FER-D!
for reference, look here and there
if i was to buy a new PC right now, i’d go for the following components:
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CPU
DualCore: E8400
Quad: Q9450.
renoise will benefit from a quad, so if you got the money, go for it. -
Motherboard
for feature-richness: Asus P5K Premium
for tight-budget: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 -
RAM
if you like to OC: Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800 CL4, 2x2GB
if you don’t or just slightly: A-Data 2x2GB -
Soundcard
both boards mentioned above feature onboard audio, which should suffice for taking the first steps.
if you long for more: EMU 1212M
the rest of the setup is rather negligible for gaining performance in renoise.
just a get hdd, psu, graphics card, etc of your choice - can’t really go totally wrong whatever you buy there nowadays, except for the PSU, which i wouldn’t buy too cheap (seasonic and tagan are recommended brands however).
@BYTE-Smasher
he is using an athlon-xp which would even ruin all the fun when running at twice the clock…
the architecture is just totally overaged and inefficient.
the pentium-m would probably still own it at even 1.0ghz, due to doing more instructions per clock-cycle.
and besides that, not everybody is happy using renoise as if it was ft2… 