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smitty_104
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n°1832291
07-19-2008 at 11:45:35 PM

this will be going on a 22' dell, have not decided on the operating system vista ultimate or home premium 64

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/ [...] itle=intel

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n°1832297
07-20-2008 at 12:19:26 AM

Good build!

smitty_104
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n°1832298
07-20-2008 at 12:24:58 AM

thx anything i need to change?

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n°1832300
07-20-2008 at 12:40:16 AM

no

espslyxerx2
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n°1832309
07-20-2008 at 01:34:45 AM

smitty_104 wrote :

this will be going on a 22' dell, have not decided on the operating system vista ultimate or home premium 64

http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/ [...] itle=intel




Uhhh, whats with the old hard drive. Get a new one, a lot faster then those 7200.10's. Especially for this kind of money, check this....


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822148309

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n°1832321
07-20-2008 at 02:56:08 AM

espslyxerx2 wrote :

Uhhh, whats with the old hard drive. Get a new one, a lot faster then those 7200.10's. Especially for this kind of money, check this....


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6822148309




thx and i did'nt even realise it was open box


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n°1832327
07-20-2008 at 03:31:07 AM

you might want another HD for scratch files. I know you have a 1 TB external but to me, an video system needs its on scratch drive and keep the 1TB drive for backups.

Well, my experience has been with video editing so you might be alright with what you have. Plus you can add another later.

skittle
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n°1832329
07-20-2008 at 03:52:13 AM

Just going to throw this out there, but pick some better peripherals man!

Mouse and keyboard are what really make a computer shine!... and for the love of god, please tell me your not thinking of using the onboard sound for audio work? That is practically blasphemous ...

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n°1832333
07-20-2008 at 04:15:46 AM

Skittle is right. I'd add one of these cards:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] ga&x=0&y=0

OK, try the onboard first, see how it feels.

I'd change the HDD to WD6400AAKS. You get 640GB instead of 250GB for a few bucks more. The WD is also faster at reading/writing large files, which I guess matters for audio editing. Also, I'd get two disks, because some editing operations work much better if the source and destination are on different disks.

The rest of the build is actually perfect, IMO. [:mousemonkey:5]

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n°1832334
07-20-2008 at 04:16:44 AM

skittle wrote :

Just going to throw this out there, but pick some better peripherals man!

Mouse and keyboard are what really make a computer shine!... and for the love of god, please tell me your not thinking of using the onboard sound for audio work? That is practically blasphemous ...



i have an M-Audio external Fast track PRO cause I'm mobile with my stuff as for the keyboard i was thinking about get this :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6823126035

smitty_104
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n°1832335
07-20-2008 at 04:18:16 AM

aevm wrote :

Skittle is right. I'd add one of these cards:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] ga&x=0&y=0

OK, try the onboard first, see how it feels.

I'd change the HDD to WD6400AAKS. You get 640GB instead of 250GB for a few bucks more. The WD is also faster at reading/writing large files, which I guess matters for audio editing. Also, I'd get two disks, because some editing operations work much better if the source and destination are on different disks.

The rest of the build is actually perfect, IMO. [:mousemonkey:5]



thx for the input, ok so two internals


Message edited by smitty_104 on 07-20-2008 at 04:22:02 AM

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