Quote me Hippy!

[VeNT]

looking for a nice music editing system for a m8, he's got about £800 to spend, wants moosive storage and good processing power, it should be ABLE to play Quake 4 too but thats 2ndery to processing power etc so graphics should be low down on your list.
ideas guys?
he was thinking of a x2 3800, but I'm not sure if he'll get it in this spec, about 2gig ram, 19'' (maybe widescreen) TFT, keyboard, mouse, (wireless both), DVD RW etc, he was also hoaping for 2 hard drives 250/500 gig setup but I think its cheaper to get 3 250s isn't it?

ok I'll leave the rest to you guys, oh but he wants a sexeh case too, something like the Antec P180 (doesn't want much does he!)

thanks in advance!

 

[semi-pro waster]

I suspect your mate has to up the budget here, the case alone takes up the better part of £100 i.e. 1/8th of the budget. This is about as low as I'd like to be going when specifying a new system where CPU power is needed. Only one hard drive as no chance of even paying lip service to the budget otherwise

MO-016-NV Neovo F-419 19" LCD Monitor - Black/Grey (MO-016-NV)
£159.95 £159.95
CA-039-AN Antec P180 Advanced Super Midi Tower Case - No PSU (Silver) (CA-039-AN)
£74.95 £74.95
CA-030-AN Antec TruePower 2.0 430W PSU (CA-030-AN)
£44.95 £44.95
MB-120-AS Asus A8N5X nForce4 (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-120-AS)
£51.95 £51.95
MY-006-OK OcUK Value 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-006-OK)
£89.95 £89.95
CP-121-AM AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3700BNBOX) (CP-121-AM)
£137.95 £137.95
GX-053-PC PowerColor ATI Radeon X800 GTO 128MB DDR TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-PC)
£69.95 £69.95
HD-094-MD Maxtor MaxLine III NCQ 250GB 7V250F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-094-MD)
£63.95 £63.95
CD-028-NE NEC ND4551 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Silver) - OEM (CD-028-NE)
£28.70 £28.70
Subtotal £722.30
VAT £126.41
Total £848.71

 

[VeNT]

yeah thats what I came up with,

you should see what he asked for ORIGINALY!

maybe another case? somthing cheaper would probably not be an issue as long as it isn't ugly!

 

[Sumanji]

Antec Sonata? Comes with a solid PSU and is silence-oriented, so good for music editing...

 

[Nixeh]

Im not a hippy

 

[ajgoodfellow]

That looks good but I would go dual core for music editing using the Antec Sonata (nice case and rather quiet)

How about:

CP-134-AM AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA3800BVBOX) (CP-134-AM) 1
£184.95 £184.95
MB-088-AS Asus A8N-E nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-088-AS) 1
£61.95 £61.95
MY-006-OK OcUK Value 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-006-OK) 1
£89.95 £89.95
GX-058-XF XFX GeForce PCX6600 Extreme XXX Edition 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (PVT43-PUDS7) (GX-058-XF) 1
£64.95 £64.95
HD-046-WD Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-046-WD) 1
£64.25 £64.25
CD-024-NE NEC ND4550 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM (CD-024-NE) 1
£25.50 £25.50
CA-040-AN Antec Sonata II Piano Black Quiet Case - 450W Smart Power PSU (CA-040-AN) 1
£65.50 £65.50
MO-012-AC Acer AL1916W 19" Widescreen LCD Monitor - Black/Silver (MO-012-AC) 1
£159.95 £159.95
Subtotal £717.00
VAT £125.48
Total £842.48

I've gone for an nVidia card purely because these perform better in Quake IV. The 6600 XXX edition with DDR2 is a fair bit quicker than the standard 6600

 

[epoxy5]

I am not much into music programs, but from what I have seen those programs use a lot of monitor space.

I would personally hold on, so I could get a 24" widescreen

 

[VeNT]

the main issue is finding the drive space it seems