£1500 to spend lots of ram needed!

bru said:
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.
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that board is rather funky, but surely all the system needs to do sound production and doesn't need to be this pwerful, or would it? am i missing something? i get the ram but q base and proggies that is similar ran what i consider to be very well on my q6600 2 gb ram machine?

drew64 said:
surely a sound card would be a good investment for such a PC?
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i would be interested to know the answer to this, but then was wondering if the system is conencting to other audio equipent like mixing desks and such. also about the connection to such things and if sound card would be needed for that or if the system would need midi controlers etc. aswell? i definately think 2 screens are needed atleast though.
 
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/Thom\ said:
that board is rather funky, but surely all the system needs to do sound production and doesn't need to be this pwerful, or would it? am i missing something? i get the ram but q base and proggies that is similar ran what i consider to be very well on my q6600 2 gb ram machine?
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i was just putting forward sugestions as outlined by the opening poster

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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What is the most expensive motherboard currently available anyway?

Would be interested to know. Where the cutting edge is today, tends to be where the rest of us will be in 3 - 5 years.
 
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