£1500 to spend lots of ram needed!

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Hello i have a friend of a friend who is interested in buying a computer for audio work that he does which uses a hell of a lot of ram.

He uses Q Base and samples lots of different instruments at the same time using different programs and wants the max amount of ram to ensure the system doesnt slow down.

Let me know your ideas.

Thanks
 
maybe something based around this?

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there are 4GB ddr3 sticks of ram available, but they are VERY expensive
 
i7 Machine with 12GB of DDR3 2000Mhz RAM should be enough for his needs, and within budget (assuming he only needs the tower).
 
What you reckon about this?

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Might be worth getting an SSD drive for the OS and system drive. I deal with two well respected audio specialists and swear by them. Still keep the 1TB drive as a second drive.
 
does he really need that GFX card? if he's gaming aswell...then fair enough.

if its processing stuff....then surely spending more on a HDD (raptor or something like that) would be better use of cash???

keep the 1tb for storage.
 
Fatboy said:
Might be worth getting an SSD drive for the OS and system drive. I deal with two well respected audio specialists and swear by them. Still keep the 1TB drive as a second drive.
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Dont know much about SSD drives what are the best ones to get?

Also i will probably down grade that to a single 4870!
 
If he is doing music he will be better off getting a graphics card like a 4850 and using the money saved to get a SSD.
This will let him access samples far quicker.
Im guessing he either already has a very good graphics card or is looking at something like a protools card.
If he is going to be using it purely for music then he deffinatly doesn't need an amazing card, just something to put a pic on screen as most music engineers will let you know, they never take their rigs online unless they realy need to, and they keep it as clean as possible from unnessesery installs.
I might suggest geting a ssd for the OS, programs and the cureent samples he is working with, then you might want a 2nd normal HDD to keep samples from old tracks or back thing up on. (i know, i have many many many Gb of samples, he will need the space)
 
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Well here's a suggestion, gives him two screens, plenty of storage, half decent case and comes in at just under 1500 when you take off delivery. The fenrir gives you the potential to overclock too should you feel the need. Also might be worth considering a soundcard, dependant on your friends needs i suppose.
 
As others have said, an SSD would be a very good idea as many of these large sample-based virtual instruments stream the samples from disk as they are so large (they also preload a few seconds, so lots of memory is important too), having a 128GB SSD would allow him quite a few of those.

One thing though, make sure he has a 64bit version of Cubase to make the most of all that memory.
 
philjohn said:
As others have said, an SSD would be a very good idea as many of these large sample-based virtual instruments stream the samples from disk as they are so large (they also preload a few seconds, so lots of memory is important too), having a 128GB SSD would allow him quite a few of those.

One thing though, make sure he has a 64bit version of Cubase to make the most of all that memory.
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Would this mean installing VSTi's onto the SSD? I'm curious becuase I am building a DAW soon but didn't think the benefits of an SSD were that important for audio work.
Would it fine as just an OS drive, or for sounds/VST's etc?
 
by the way - i have done some reading up today in my lunch hour and it turns out that the latest version of Cubase (v5) can access large amounts of RAM under Vista's 64-but technology (not even sure if there's a cap on it). Plus the orchestra I have now has a new playback engine which can utilise up to 32GB of RAM so if there is a way to get more than 12GB of RAM in the computer he specked I'd definitely get the usage out of it. The new Cubase 5 does support multi core processing too (ie: 2x quad core) and hyper threading technology. Apparently a lot of high end composer's (hollywood composers etc) use these types of setups as they do load all their samples into RAM which just gets eaten up, hence they have the programs to utilise these specs. I hear there is an I7 extreme edition too - I'm sure it must be possible to install two of these onto a motherboard and get higher RAM (16gb/24gb)?
still just speccing up at the moment so would appreciate seeing how much that would cost me as I would definitely be interested in it as I definitely would be able to utilise it.
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This is what the guy said to my friend it reply to one of the specs i sent him, imo i dont think more than 12gb is worth it is it?

I mean there isn't even 4gb ram sticks out in plentiful supply at the moment let alone 6gb modules like he is suggesting?

Audio nuts i need your help as i have no experience in this kind of platform.
 
proberbly prohibitively expensive but you should be looking at something like one of these boards.

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then build the rest of the system from there.
 
despotofmidnor said:
, they never take their rigs online unless they realy need to, and they keep it as clean as possible from unnessesery installs.
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There's wisdom to that. The operating system I use for cad never sees the internet. Works particularly well if you have windows on an ssd, and a terabyte drive with a second operating sytem on for when you wish to access the internet.
 
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