I built a PC for the misus at the same as I built mine as she was getting designs on outlook, internet, scanner etc on my PC..... So built an AMD machine for her... think I got a board (network and video built in)processor (2400) memory (256MB) for £107 inc VAT.

Thats a great price?!?!? But not to me its not coz the dam things not worth the steam of a w@nk for audio work...

Theres no point basing the config for an audio PC round a cheap as chips board so you can buy a slightly better processor. Because the bottle neck is the cheap board....

I searched the suppliers extensivly when I bought my components and swapped about in the end... Think the board and Chip came from Aria.co.uk, hard disks and Ram from another and the rest from another...

In all honestly to anyone looking to build an audio PC look at someone like Carilons Website, pick a PC, look at the spec and find out what chipset the motherboard has (usually rebranded Asus boards in the Carillons anyway) Search on the net and look for a simerlar board with same chipset and then search on www.kelkoo.co.uk to find the cheapest UK suppllier...

Honestly though I cannot stress how good that Asus board is, it capable of everything you could want out of an audio PC without going into dual processor teritory...

Hmmmmm thats my "of on a tangent" rant over

PS I dont work for ASUS or ARIA I've just built 4 of these spec audio PCs over the last 6 months and both companies with both products & price have done me proud....