Audio Copying

Witling

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Whoa! This went out a lot quicker than I intended.

My wife does a lot of audio stuff. I'm thinking of getting her a small form factor computer.

My understanding is that if I was doing a lot of floating point manipulation, P$ or whatever might be better than Celeron. Is there any difference in the straight-eight file copying facilities or audio file manipultaion facilities of these two classes of processors (or their AMD equivalents)?

This subject doesn't appear under a search of the forum for "audio."
 

sandorski

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Not sure, but the FPU on Athlons(specifically Athlon64) is superior to P4s. Might want to post what software is being used and might want to look at the Forum or messageboard(if there is one) for that particular software app. If it's a common peice of software I'm sure someone has tested its' performance between the various processors. Athlon64 most likely comes out ontop, unless it's heavily optoomized for P4s(even then it might perform better on A64s).
 

mircea

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I'm not sure about small form though. It depends on the software, but audio work really likes RAM which laptops don't have much of. I am going to 4GB soon to be able to do all my audio work.
 

cheesehead

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SFF is likely not the best way to go; you have to spent almost twice as much for your motherboard and case.
If I were you, I'd get the Athlon 3500+, a good motherboard (DFI is supposed to be good) with the Nforce4 Ultra chipset, and 2GB of DDR400. (2 1GB Dimms.). This will give you lots of memory bandwith, and you can always add another 2 sticks of memory if you need them later. Also, SATA-II is supported, so even if your wife does not use a dedicated SATA or SCSI RAID card, you can use the higher-speed SATA-II drives when they come on the market.
 

The Godfather

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i'm not sure if this a restricted word here, but my friend has apples and he says they are really good for audio.
 

Matrix21

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Originally posted by: The Godfather
i'm not sure if this a restricted word here, but my friend has apples and he says they are really good for audio.

Only the Best
 

cheesehead

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Originally posted by: The Godfather
i'm not sure if this a restricted word here, but my friend has apples and he says they are really good for audio.

A dualie 2.7ghz G5 will own almost anything short of a quad-core opteron system. Video and audio editing is where Mac shines. Of course, they're so darn expensive that nobody can afford 'em, most people buy PC's anyway.
 

MofletaLTD

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Originally posted by: Cheesehead
SFF is likely not the best way to go; you have to spent almost twice as much for your motherboard and case.
If I were you, I'd get the Athlon 3500+, a good motherboard (DFI is supposed to be good) with the Nforce4 Ultra chipset, and 2GB of DDR400. (2 1GB Dimms.). This will give you lots of memory bandwith, and you can always add another 2 sticks of memory if you need them later. Also, SATA-II is supported, so even if your wife does not use a dedicated SATA or SCSI RAID card, you can use the higher-speed SATA-II drives when they come on the market.

Hmm...they are already in the market...Hitachi/WD/Samsung have their SATA-II drives out, I personally have two Hitachi 250GB SATAII drives and they work wonderful, raided.

Link to SATA II drives at newegg
 

HDTVMan

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Originally posted by: Witling
Whoa! This went out a lot quicker than I intended.

My wife does a lot of audio stuff. I'm thinking of getting her a small form factor computer.

My understanding is that if I was doing a lot of floating point manipulation, P$ or whatever might be better than Celeron. Is there any difference in the straight-eight file copying facilities or audio file manipultaion facilities of these two classes of processors (or their AMD equivalents)?

This subject doesn't appear under a search of the forum for "audio."

Holy Cow. Talk of dualies on Audio encoding?

Im sure any CPU today would be sufficient. Granted the more cpu the faster it would be but most machines today can rip and encode nearly as fast as it rips. A chip with a better FSB is the only thing I would consider other than that go with what is reasonable.
 

cheesehead

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Holy Cow. Talk of dualies on Audio encoding?

Im sure any CPU today would be sufficient. Granted the more cpu the faster it would be but most machines today can rip and encode nearly as fast as it rips. A chip with a better FSB is the only thing I would consider other than that go with what is reasonable.

If you're encoding in real-time with fourteen-odd sources and have a bajillion different effects, a dualie Power Mac seems to be the way to go.
 

HDTVMan

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Thats because it would take a dual G5 to do what an Athlon 64 does. :)

Just kidding. I think its just overkill.