Re: Advice request for new system planning
- From: Vram <lamsokvr@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:48:08 -0800
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:49 -0500, David Teague(T-bird acct) wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I want to build a system that to run Linux (probably Ubuntu or Kubuntu,
> possibly some other Debian derivative) and Windows. I would like a
> recommendation of:
>
> Motherboard? What have you used with some success?
>
> Processor do you like, preferably AMD. Which one? 32 or 64 bit? How fast?
> I will be doing sound processing, in real time, where it
> listens to me sing or
> play and repeats with corrected pitch in real time.
I like 64 bit AMD
>
> How much RAM? 1GB? More? Less? (I think not.)
> Advice on tech specs for RAM will be appreciated
>
> Sound card (it needs to give as close to professional quality sound as I
> can afford.)
>
> Speakers? I need it flat from DC to infrared. No, not really. but as
> flat as possible
> from 32 Hz to 20,000 Hz (low C string on my bass to the
> highest frequency
> the human ear can hear, not that I can hear it at my age.)
> Flat at the low end
> is the hardest and the most expensive if I understand
> correctly.
>
> DVD/CD Linux compatible reader/burner Lite-On? Windows runs nearly
> anything here.
>
> Flat Panel monitor Make? Price? Size compared to a equivalent CRT monitor?
>
> What rodentia do you prefer? I think I will prefer my mice tethered, as
> I tend
> to lose TV controllers, I am certain I will misplace an
> infrared mouse.
> Does anyone use a trackball? What do you like? Hate?
>
> I tend to be a pack rat, so I think gobs and gobs of disk space. Two
> fast 160 GB drives?
>
SATA!!!! Stay away from PATA
> Is it true that it is easier for Linux and Windows to coexist if
> installed on different disks?
Can't prove it by me???
I always put them on same disk...
>
> What have I missed?
>
> Any advice at all, even on part of this will be appreciated.
>
> Someone will ask what my budget is. I think $1000 to $1500 is the budget,
> but I would prefer to keep this to the lower side of that range, subject to
> good sound, and there it can run to $1500 if need be.
>
> Apology to those who see this several times as I will post this on
> several lists.
>
> Warm Regards
> David
>
> --
Good Luck
Vram
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