- Mar 16, 2014
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I'm attempting to "recycle" an older but still very usable HP desktop computer. The intended purpose is audio production on a semi-pro, mostly light duty scale. The interface device I want to use is a Lexicon IO-82, which equals 8 inputs at once via USB. The interface has it's own PS, so it does not rely solely on USB power. When I emailed Lexicon so see if it would run on my machine, the reply was "The computer does not meet the minimum requirements and you may experience a noisy signal when recording. One additional note, Lexicon recommends computers with Intel processors. AMD processors have not been disqualified however the Intel processors seem to work better with USB audio devices. If your PC has plenty of RAM it may work in a limited fashion e.g. recording 2 tracks simultaneously. " It seems the real sticking point is the CPU. Here are the CPU/mobo specs:
Base processor
Athlon 64 3300+ 2.4 GHz
1600 MT/s (Mega Transfers/second)
Socket 754
Chipset
ATI Radeon XPress 200
Motherboard
Manufacturer: Asus
Motherboard Name: K8S-LA
HP/Compaq motherboard name: Salmon-GL6E
I have done some research and found the ASUS brand of mobo's are reliable and high quality. I suppose what I am asking is, is there a multi-core Intel CPU that will work with this mobo? The machine is an HP a1112n. Thanks in advance for any advice!
edit: I should mention minimum specs for the IO-82 are a dual core CPU.
Base processor
Athlon 64 3300+ 2.4 GHz
1600 MT/s (Mega Transfers/second)
Socket 754
Chipset
ATI Radeon XPress 200
Motherboard
Manufacturer: Asus
Motherboard Name: K8S-LA
HP/Compaq motherboard name: Salmon-GL6E
I have done some research and found the ASUS brand of mobo's are reliable and high quality. I suppose what I am asking is, is there a multi-core Intel CPU that will work with this mobo? The machine is an HP a1112n. Thanks in advance for any advice!
edit: I should mention minimum specs for the IO-82 are a dual core CPU.
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