decent audio pc??

[misslideaway]

My boyf is looking for a new audio pc. Anyone got any suggestions? Hes been looking at digital village or red sub but i was wondering if anyone can reccomend who`s best. hes also been looking at inta sound, millenium and carrilon??

[Mattk]

an audio pc ? surely any pc can qualify as this ? there is a simple rule the better the soundcard/speakers,the better the sound. if he already has a pc just invest in some soundworks speakers and soundcard

[j2buttonsw]

Or do you want to record multi-track music with Cubase? If so, get the best you can afford: the quickest CPU (dual CPUs would be better but if you use the newer P4 hyperthreading CPUs they act as 2 CPUs anyway (like the server Xeon CPUs). So 2 hyperthreading P4s act like a quad system and XP pro only supports 2 CPUs), the most RAM and the fastest hard drive (I use a SCSI hard drive). I guess you could build one cheaper than the Carillion systems yourself (mine is an old dual PIII server board with 1 GB RAM, 2x PIII 800 MHz CPUs, a 36 GB SCSI HDD and an Audigy sound card. I only record audio (not MIDI) and it works a treat. Recording music is essentially just doing vast amounts of number crunching so the bigger and faster the PC the better.