Athlon 64 3000+ or P4 3.0C for Audio recording?

[Guertin Graphics Art Department]

Trying to upgrade my system, but being overwhelmed by conflicting
information.
Anyone here have experience running Cubase with the Athlon 64 3000+?
What about with P4 3.0C ?
Comparisons? Horror stories? Anything?
I'm so confused...
Planning to use Chaintech Zenith MB regardless of CPU (different
models of course) 1 GB ram, M-Audio 1010lt, etc. etc. and will be using
the PC for general use, not just recording though recording and video
editing will be a large part of it's use..

 

[zalzon]

I don't know about audio recording. I'd guess it would depend more on
the sound card than anything else.

That aside, i'd go with the AMD 64.

 

[Stacey]

Trying to upgrade my system, but being overwhelmed by conflicting
information.
Anyone here have experience running Cubase with the Athlon 64 3000+?
What about with P4 3.0C ?
Comparisons? Horror stories? Anything?
I'm so confused...
Planning to use Chaintech Zenith MB regardless of CPU (different
models of course) 1 GB ram, M-Audio 1010lt, etc. etc. and will be using
the PC for general use, not just recording though recording and video
editing will be a large part of it's use..

Ask the people writing the software which they recomend. Most high end
software will respond as they want their software to work well for you.
Many video editing apps are focused at the P-4. I've read of some problems
with the P-4 and some audio editing apps but those bugs have probably been
worked out at this point. I doubt you'll have any conflicts using a P-4
with video editing apps. Again ask the people writing the software, many of
the people here are gamers and some think the video card is what makes a
system fast editing video!

 

[George A Hamilton]

Trying to upgrade my system, but being overwhelmed by conflicting

information.
Anyone here have experience running Cubase with the Athlon 64 3000+?
What about with P4 3.0C ?
Comparisons? Horror stories? Anything?
I'm so confused...
Planning to use Chaintech Zenith MB regardless of CPU (different
models of course) 1 GB ram, M-Audio 1010lt, etc. etc. and will be using
the PC for general use, not just recording though recording and video
editing will be a large part of it's use..

To be perfectly honest, if you are recording audio (seriously!), I'd get
a Pro-Tools system. This is a hardware/software combo, that is better
than any other. It once was Mac only, but is now available for Windows.
Most pro recording engineers will swear by Macs, but with Pro-Tools
there is little difference. The downside of all this is the £20000 price
tag, so it's not for amatuers. If that is a little to much, I would get
a Mac (G5!) if you can handle it being a Mac, because audio recording is
better than on any PC. If it must be a PC, a decent sound card will do
more for you than any CPU.

 

[Guertin Graphics Art Department]

I already have the system. I'm using Cubase SX. I'm already using it in
an older system, I just want to upgrade all the hardware.

 

[AlienZen]

Trying to upgrade my system, but being overwhelmed by conflicting
information.
Anyone here have experience running Cubase with the Athlon 64 3000+?
What about with P4 3.0C ?
Comparisons? Horror stories? Anything?
I'm so confused...
Planning to use Chaintech Zenith MB regardless of CPU (different
models of course) 1 GB ram, M-Audio 1010lt, etc. etc. and will be using
the PC for general use, not just recording though recording and video
editing will be a large part of it's use..

Considering MS is just now rolling out a -sample- release of Windows XP for 64,
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/64bit/downloads/upgrade.asp , I would wait to
invest in the hardware.

Right now, it's in the same category as the dual processor Mobo. Really really
kewl, but useless if you don't have the apps to utilize the potential power.
The software designed to utilize the 64 bit processor under a 64 bit OS is still
in the alpha stage. Wait six months. Let some software come out under XP64, then
upgrade. Right now, it's still too new. But it looks like it's gonna seriously
rock!

YMMV,
JMHO,
SRA,
Mike