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Limp Gawd
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i have a friend who who has his own radio show (a real one, not an intarweb one, heh) and takes a lot of his work home with him to do on his computer. his computer recently broke beyond repair, and needs a new one. he asked for my help, and has a limited budget since he has a new addition to the family. what is a good cheap computer for an audio professional? unfortunately i do not know what programs it is that he uses. he has a case, keyboad, mouse, and moniter that he can recycle.
i was thinking something along the lines of:
EPoX "EP-8RDA3+" nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU -RETAIL $77.00
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum PCI Sound Card, Model "SB0350" -RETAIL $166.00
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ "Barton", 333 FSB, 512K Cache Processor - Retail $87.00
XFX nVIDIA GeForce MX4000 Video Card, 128MB DDR, 64-bit, TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model "PVT18LRT" -RETAIL $49.00
Crucial 184 Pin 256MB DDR PC 2700 4T - OEM $48.00
Crucial 184 Pin 256MB DDR PC 2700 4T - OEM $48.00
Seagate 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model ST380011A, OEM $63.50
VANTEC ION VAN-400B (400W) Serial ATA readyPower Supply $53.00
591.5
all from newegg.com
what do you guys think? he was previously using a pentium 3 550 with 128megs of sdram, and probably onboard audio and video. im guessing he would be very delighted with the capabilities and performance of this machine
i was thinking something along the lines of:
EPoX "EP-8RDA3+" nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset Motherboard for AMD Socket A CPU -RETAIL $77.00
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum PCI Sound Card, Model "SB0350" -RETAIL $166.00
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ "Barton", 333 FSB, 512K Cache Processor - Retail $87.00
XFX nVIDIA GeForce MX4000 Video Card, 128MB DDR, 64-bit, TV-Out, 8X AGP, Model "PVT18LRT" -RETAIL $49.00
Crucial 184 Pin 256MB DDR PC 2700 4T - OEM $48.00
Crucial 184 Pin 256MB DDR PC 2700 4T - OEM $48.00
Seagate 80GB 7200RPM IDE Hard Drive, Model ST380011A, OEM $63.50
VANTEC ION VAN-400B (400W) Serial ATA readyPower Supply $53.00
591.5
all from newegg.com
what do you guys think? he was previously using a pentium 3 550 with 128megs of sdram, and probably onboard audio and video. im guessing he would be very delighted with the capabilities and performance of this machine