Final check on revised build for music production, compatibility etc

MikeHunt79 said:
I personally prefer dual core for music production, a cooler chip needs less cooling so the result is a far quieter computer. i3 is good but if you runa lot of plugins at once then maybe the 2600 would be a better choice...
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Dual core?
For music production?

:confused::confused:

Surely you need a lot of cores as its very cpu intensive.
 
Oh I forgot to mention I have two monitors that I want to use with it, so I assume the H motherboards don't have both a VGA and a DVI output? I do have an M-Audio PCI card in a tower, will that work in this motherboard? It's not PCI Express.
 
Now this depends on the motherboard,

some have a HDMI and older D-SUB, some have DVI and D-SUB,

and most boards will have at least one pci slot for older cards.

what inputs do your monitors have?
 
Cookeh said:
Dual core?
For music production?

:confused::confused:

Surely you need a lot of cores as its very cpu intensive.
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Yep, I use an E5300 running at 3.5ghz, and my CPU fan never goes above 500rpm meaning the whole computer is very quiet.

I don't use tons of plug-ins, but I use a fair few, mainly in Reason and Logic... I haven't run out CPU yet...
 
MikeHunt79 said:
Yep, I use an E5300 running at 3.5ghz, and my CPU fan never goes above 500rpm meaning the whole computer is very quiet.

I don't use tons of plug-ins, but I use a fair few, mainly in Reason and Logic... I haven't run out CPU yet...
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Fair enough - I know little about music production - only that the dual cores at school could barely handle Sibelius :p
 
stulid said:
Now this depends on the motherboard,

some have a HDMI and older D-SUB, some have DVI and D-SUB,

and most boards will have at least one pci slot for older cards.

what inputs do your monitors have?
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Good to know about the PCI slot, guess I'll just have to look at each individual board, for that and the monitor outputs they have. Both monitors have VGA connections but I have one VGA to DVI converter.
 
Had a quick look for you, and these have both a DVI and D-SUB output.

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3655#ov

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3654#ov

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=xC1GPgvnP5unUCNB&templete=2

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=CkMiq3rrqw3yqO5H&templete=2

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=anRBLQ8WEKcWZHSt&templete=2

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=AzCqysYIRHQMEPup&templete=2

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=oztxS9uaDrwQwO2Y&templete=2

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=wblkZc9YhhYJ4HrG&templete=2

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=H67M-GE

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=H67M-GE/HT

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=H67DE3

http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=H67M

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Motherboards/detail_spec.aspx?ID=en-us0000514

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Motherboards/detail_spec.aspx?ID=en-us0000513

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Motherboards/detail_spec.aspx?ID=en-us0000512
 
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Nice one thanks for the effort. :) I think I may choose the Gigabyte GA-H67A-UD3H from that list, as it also has PCI slots whereas the UD2H only has PCI-Express ones. That means I can use my old M-Audio PCI card.

So even if I decided to put a 2600K in a H67 board I wouldn't be able to overclock it, right? Is that the benefit a P67 has over an H67?
 
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