Quote Originally Posted by RDR View Post
some good advice there.

DONT go for XP64bit though, there are a lot of plugins that dont support the operating system. better to play it safe with XP PRO 32bit.

A good quality motherboard from ASUS or GIGABYTE, silent Max enclosures for your hard drives, Zalman coolers for the CPU, Silent PSU as well.2gb of RAM, and make sure your drives are 7200RPM, two of them as well, one for OS and one for save files, samples etc etc. I would ensure your board also will take SATA II drives. faster faster faster.

Graphics card needs to be one which doesnt have a massive fan on it. Also that doesnt come with shit loads of stupid add on programs, to manage the card.

Plenty of ports is good as well, USB, firewire.
Sorry man, could you clarify the non-64bit support for me, going to be upgrading soon i didn't think this was an issue and i've seen major music retailers selling Win XP 64bit machines. Do you mean that the plug in manufacturers won't provide support for their products on 64bit OS or that some are actually incompatible?

My understanding was that all 32bit software would run on 64bit OS and that it was just the hardware drivers that needed to be 64bit (these are available for most recent soundcards). I suggested XP 64 as 32 won't see more than 3gb ram.