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so i guess you got it =) can i ditch the boxes now?

but your name is so good!

i've no experience with rackmount servers, no. tbh, while a rack is nice, it's way nicer to just put a little tower over in the corner. biggest issue with rackmounts is that there's no bloody space. all you need is something small and cheap that's at least an ATX mini tower, and it'll easily fit four or five drives (probably more since you don't need the optical slots). racks are cool, but it's rare you've got enough to fit in them. stick with a small case, not even a keyboard or monitor =)

i'm missing something here. what instruments do you want? you need to identify what you're looking for before you can scour for it. like, mitsuda, in chrono cross, uses a lot of wind instruments (flutes, oboe, clarinet), mallet percussion (vibes, steel drums, marimba), light strings, fretless electric bass, ethnic percussion (congas, shakers, tabla), and the like. don't look for a generic sample pack - look for good versions of these instruments. squidfont is terrible for melodic stuff, but would work for background and harmonic stuff. most of the instruments have incredibly long attacks, completely unrealistic. i'd suggest finding something like florestan strings for an articulate violin, bhcello for a useable cello (that's what i used on Canvas of Dreams), florestan woodwinds for the winds, and then just browse hammersound or something for the bass and percussion samples. there's tons of stuff out there - but you need to know what you're looking for before you look for it. edit: as for a soundfont player, FLStudio's soundfont player is good. i use that, since i use flstudio. if you're in a different DAW and don't want to switch, sfz's about as good as you'll find.

edirol orchestral is pretty poor overall quality. it's nice to get a whole orchestra for so cheap, but you get what you pay for. similarly, while garritan's gofriller is very easy to play live, it's poor compared to other, similarly priced options when it comes to sequenced stuff. melodyne is the best for fixing vocals. no questions asked.

note that when he says spread your libraries, he doesn't mean to separate the libraries themself, moseph. he means to put one big one here, and one big one there, etc.

sounds like a wide chorus to me. if it's a flanger, it's mimicing a chorus effect.

RAIDs are strikingly expensive for the boost in speed you get, honestly. once you've paid for a good raid card and the three or four drives you need (not two, not worth it), it'd be about the same price for a few 600gb velociraptor drives when they're finally in stock in a week or two. not the same amount of space, but far more reliable. you really won't see that much real-world increase in speed overall. just get a few nice caviar black drives with a high cache size (WD black drives have two processors in them, which actually does speed up large file access a bit), and you'll be happy for much less. spend the extra cash on a big crucial realSSD C300 for your system drive =)

this looks bloody AWESOME. good excuse to get to the city before i move? i think so.

this is a brilliant thread. srsly.

wait, what? i cut it down once and changed it once (to be a little more search-able) in six years. too much?

halo 2, in the campus center at school. we played a continuous match for six hours, three people total (third seat was rotated, the other two stayed the whole time). i finished with over a thousand kills, close to three thousand points. br start, random secondary weapon, no weapons on map, bonus points on, no score or time limit. got about sixty people in a group, closer to two hundred over the course of the game. we had to stop when they did last call for meals, though - we were hungry after all that.

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there's no way for them to know if you're using a router. well, technically they could, but how big is baylor again? they won't care. i went to a college with 1500 people, and they didn't mind. the router was just an idea to improve your wireless connection in-dorm, if you go with a laptop. if your desktop is plugged into the wall jack at your dorm room, and you've got a decent wireless signal anywhere on campus, you can RD into your desktop from a netbook no problem. like i said, i had a lot of friends who did that quite often. contact your tech department about it if you're not sure.

hey darke don't derail threads or you'll get banned or something back on topic... i wasn't talking a gaming pc, either. just in terms of raw performance and long-term viability, that laptop will be toast either from the first drop or because the battery and system bus fry from the extra heat generated by that system. oh, and turbo mode? uber LOLz on a laptop, right up there with overclocking. your computer's raw computing ability will function significantly below a desktop running even an AMD 3ghz dual-core from three years ago =( =( =(

no. 5400rpm refers to the access speed, not the transfer speed. it's still a sata drive, and will still outstrip USB by three or four times. shit, baylor? you'll be fine, man =) just buy a 20$ wireless router, put a password on it, and BOOM! you've got wireless in the dorms. the rest of the campus is more connected than 90% of colleges out there. sounds good =)

new tech always costs more, i guess. 600$ could have gotten you a netbook and a desktop, although the desktop would have skimped on case, psu and mobo quality, just like that lappy (but still easily outperform it).

lol, hope you didn't pay much for that thing edit: back on topic...

fyi - if you buy EVGA on your graphics card, they've got a "step-up" program. if you, after 90 days max, want to upgrade, they'll credit the full cost that you paid for your card towards a better one. you ship the one you've got back (with all the bells and whistles, and the box if possible), and they send you a new one. i've done it several times, it's a great deal.

laptop hard drives are notoriously slow, meaning that if you're streaming more than a few hundred MB of samples, it'll be uber-slow and take forever. in dorms isn't a big deal - you'd want to plug in there. how's the wifi for the rest of the place? lol, you're worried about performance requirements for business? you're going to be using number-crunchers...the kind of thing a netbook is generally best at when it comes to high-intensity figuring. as for the laptop you've linked, i don't know much about it (cnet reviews are your friend!), but i'd say that you should upgrade to w7 pro (13$), possibly the backlit keyboard (25$), and centrino wireless-n card (5$). there's a lot of crap they try to push on you. i can't say enough that i've been very happy with HP's laptop offerings over the years. dell's always got atrocious rankings in consumer reports, and HP's been near the top year after year. keep it in mind.

just fyi, most bigger cards (like the 9800 and up) will just BARELY fit into the 300. might want to go with something a touch bigger if you're planning on getting a better graphics card between now and then (the 9800GTX+ is only around 130 or so, and would light that 8600 you picked on fire). also, unless you're a keyboard player, go with the axiom 49. i'm not, and i've never been hampered by the size of mine. use that saved money towards a better gfx card =)

is that an axiom 49 and a behringer 6-input i see? great products with great pricetags =) i used one of those behringers for years before i got my saffire pro 40. it's worth noting that netbooks are getting quite powerful. for 400$, you can get an hp mini 311 that's got ION graphics (can play Freelancer or Torchlight pretty easily), and although the 1.6ghz processor in that looks a little paltry it's actually pretty quick. just get one with xp, not w7 =) all this is getting even cooler with the fact that dual-core netbooks are coming out within the month.

i rarely did work in undergraduate or graduate school outside the dorm that wasn't just typing or anything, but i was a music major if you're engineering or something, you'll probably have to do some advanced stuff that a netbook might not be as quick at. understood =) don't forget, though, that you could always remote-desktop into your system in your dorm, like several of my friends did. you get portability and power, works well if you've got a decent web connection. if your wireless is terrible, you're sunk, though. i don't know much about specific types of laptops, but i can offer this advice. always go with a 7200rpm hard drive that's way bigger than you think you'll need. 5400rpm drives are just soooo slow =( if you know a bit about computers, and your system comes with a "recovery" disc to reinstall windows (or you know how to clone a drive), buy the drive yourself and save the cash (and the extra drive) for a rainy day. externals are ok, but remember that they're not built for portability, usually. get one for your desk, turn it on when you need to back something up onto it (or watch a movie, or something), and then shut it off again. cavalry sells a 1tb external for about 70$ or so that's real nice. pay the 30 bucks and buy a damn chill pad. you'll double the life of your system. also, you'll double or triple the life of your battery if you remove it when you sit down for the night. charge your system, then remove it so that it's not constantly charging and discharging all night long. along those lines, don't set your system on the carpet, or somewhere where it won't have good airflow. heat kills laptops, every time. blow it out with some canned air every three or four months, too - once a semester and over the summer is what i used to do. normally, i'd say that there's not much of a difference in ram speeds, but in a laptop there's significant differences (because they're so slow to begin with). it's usually more cost-effective to buy your ram seperately, but max out your system asap. if it can take 4gb, more power to you. it's worth the extra cash for a discrete graphics card if you're planning on gaming. if your system can toggle between integrated and discrete, even better - but those systems are usually pretty expensive. the nvidia 200M is the best nvidia-based graphics out there besides the ION cards. if you see a system with ION LE, there's a simple hack to make it the full version. google it, you'll find it. get a dual-core, with the fastest combination of FSB (front side bus) and GHz that you can. not even a question =) you likely won't need a quad, since the performance expense (battery life and straight-line speed) will take a big hit for a quad. i'm assuming you'll go with either w7 or xp. xp's going to give you the best overall performance, since it takes up so little of your system resources to run (128mb of ram!). w7 needs close to a gig even after you turn off transparency, but it looks nice and is much more secure. your choice - if you're careful about your websites, even with xp you won't need an antivirus beyond a monthly scan from your favorite program, so you'll be fine there.

asus are good core2 motherboards, but their i7 and i5 boards are terrible. avoid them in this instance. if you're doing tons of recording, you'll want a nice interface of some sort. i used, however, an m-audio mobilepre for years, and got excellent sound out of it. it's usb-powered, mobile for use with a laptop if needed, and costs less than 150$. i only used it when recording, though, and used integrated sound the rest of the time, and it worked pretty well. amd's processors are only good if you're an enthusiast who plans on overclocking. they consistantly perform well under what similar intel processors in the same price range can do, and they're much hotter to boot. i'd avoid them in this case, particularly since amd's top processor is way below the 860 i picked out above =) nvidia's cards are definitely more stable - ati's are so bad that there are several major third-party candidates that ati actually recognizes as being better than theirs the 5800 series is definitely better than anything else out there (price:performance ratio is way better), but like i said, i prefer evga's nvidia cards. never had one die, and they have by far the best tech support available anywhere. i'd suggest getting four gigs, honestly. with a music machine, you want all you can get. w7 takes up about a gig for background stuff. a note: if you get a graphics card with a ton of vram (the core 216 has 896mb), subtract that amount from your total ram and add about 128mb. so, if you buy 4gb, you'll have 3gb useable. that's what i use. if you buy a 2gb vram card, you'll have a little less than 2gb useable =) this is a 32-bit windows restriction, only. if you go with a 64-bit windows installation, there's no restriction.