[64studio-devel] New computer for audio

[Daniel James]

Hi Marco,

> I'm thinking of buying an amd64, but don't know which

The dual-core Athlon 64 CPUs are very suitable for desktop machines 
running 64 Studio, now we're ironing out the timing bugs. The Opteron 
range is very good, but typically costs more. A harder choice is which 
motherboard to go for.

> 2gig of ram, and
> an hard disk of 7200 rpm will be ok?

I'd say 1GB plus is recommended, 2GB is better of course. SATA hard 
discs are pretty fast these days - personally, I usually buy Seagate 
discs for the fluid bearings, but I recently bought an external 300GB 
Maxtor, and that's pretty quiet too.

Cheers!

Daniel