Building new Daw for Sonar 8.5...need advice please :D

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2010/03/16 14:53:15 (permalink)

Building new Daw for Sonar 8.5...need advice please :D

Due to our band deciding that we should finally get back into recording and get an album completed, we have also agreed that we need a new system built for the job.

Originally we ran Sonar 8, Reason 4, BFD 2 and a few other vsts on a Q6600 system, it was fast enough, but could have done with a bit more headroom due to some of the tracks being a little vst heavy and not wanting to freeze down till the last moment really didn't help lol.

So now here comes my questions.
Firstly, operating system.......
Does anyone have experience of Windows 7 64bit and the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R? If so, how does it cope? Any issues?
Does anyone use reason 4 and BFD 2 rewired to sonar in the windows 7 64bit environment? If so, how does it cope? Any issues?

Hardware wise the system i am looking to build is an i7 setup...
So far i've narrowed it down to..

1 X LATEST Intel Core i7 930 2.80GHz @ 4.00GHz!
1 X Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R Intel X58 (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
1 X Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 (1600MHz) Tri-Channel
1 X Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g)
3 X Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500b SATA-II 16MB Cache (ST3500418AS)
1 X 19" Rackmount Case
1 x 800w Tagan PSU
1 x dual head dvi nvidia gf card

Any issues with regards to the above items?
3 drives = Os, Audio, Samples.

I know a large drive for the os is probably overkill but price wise, im trying to keep the cost down as much as possible....at the moment, not including the psu and gfx card, that lot tallys up to £750

Any info would be much appreciated as i really do need to get this system purchased and running before things go off the boil, so to speak.

Cheers.
Chris.
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    tyacko
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    Re:Building new Daw for Sonar 8.5...need advice please :D 2010/03/17 08:24:28 (permalink)
    Chris,

    Can't really comment on the audio interface or software questions you have as I don't own any of those.

    As for the hardware, this does look like a really nice setup you've chosen.  The only thing I will have you think about is if you should wait about a week or two before purchasing this machine.  The new Gulftown (six processor) chips are being release by Intel next week (Newegg is showing 3/22).  This might cause certain i7 processor prices to drop shortly and you might be able to get a bit more processor for the same amount of money.  I've been looking at the i7 975 mainly for the higher bandwidth (6.4 GT/s versus the 4.8 GT/s found on the i7 9x0 processors) and probably the fastest processor that will run on my current motherboard.

    Beyond that thought, I think you've made some very good choices.

    Tom

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    Re:Building new Daw for Sonar 8.5...need advice please :D 2010/03/17 12:28:09 (permalink)
    i7 wont drop in price..
    they released the 930 @ the same price as the 920 that was thier price drop!
    960 just replaced the 950

    so dont expect any other price drops until the 6 core lower priced ones come out (3rd quarter i think)


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