[Ardour-Users] building a new machine for Ardour

[allan k]

Another one I'd like to throw out there.. as I'll be updating according
to my lease plan in about 6 months.. at this stage does anyone know if
it is better to go with a faster clocked dual core (or maybe triple AMD)
or a quad core system?? 


On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 10:44 +0900, sonofzev at iinet.net.au wrote:
> agreed .. good ardour performance does seem to depend on RAM.... 
> with your proposed setup this should not be an issue unless you are
> running a large amount of plugins........ 
> WIth regards to the drive setup i would recommend separate partitions
> for system and home directories and a separate disk for recording
> to)....... 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue Dec 9 10:09 , Paul Winkler sent:
> 
>         On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:39:29PM +0000, david headon wrote:
>         > should i be using three drives (one for system, one for
>         swap, and
>         > one for storage)?
>         
>         disclaimer: I'm not a "hardware guy". But I don't see how a
>         dedicated
>         swap drive would make any sense unless your usage patterns
>         were such
>         that you regularly need truly massive amounts of swap, so huge
>         that
>         it's impractical to just buy enough RAM instead.
>         
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