PC For Music Production

[Anthony666]

I've been asked by a friend who has little experience with computers to build a pc for music production. It therefore needs to be rock solid as any incompatabilies between hardware will be particularly noticeable as clicks & pops etc in audio. It will also be used as a multi-purpose machine eg media playing, DTP, light gaming, photo-editing etc but it is primarily a music production PC so the overall stability will be more important than performance in these secondary areas.

These are the components i have selected with links to the company from whom I intend to purchase,

Motherboard
Asus A8N-VM CSM
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=298779

CPU
AMD Athlon 64 3200 Socket 939 "Venice" Retail
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=217038

Hard Drive
WD2500KS Caviar SE16 SATA2 250Gb
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=256891

Ram
1Gb (2x512Mb Matched) Corsair Value Select PC3200
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=237278

DVD
LG GSA-4167BAL
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=267344

PSU
Tagan TG480-U01
http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=82572

Sound Card
E-mu 0404
http://www.guitarampkeyboard.com/options.php?id=12253


So does anyone know of any reason why this setup may not be suitable for it's purpose? Any advice at all would be greatly appreciated
Thanks all in advance.

 

[luminaris]

I'm a musician myself and I use the system listed in my signature along with a creative audigy sound card and it works beautifully. I'm sure that one will do very well.

 

[ReCoN]

i would have to reconmend a X-fi Sound card, it would be more expencive but they are great cards.