Building a recording rig

[Daniel]

Hello all, I'm going to attempt to build a pc to do some home recording. In the past I've recorded with a small Boss Br-532 4 track. I'm switching due to the lack of control.

After hours of research, here is what I plan to purchase for the pc. Please let me know of any suggestions or problems with the selections I've made.

1. Computer Case
RAIDMAX Elite ATX-208 Beige 0.7mm SECC ATX Mid
Tower Computer Case

$19.99

2. Power Supply
Rosewill RV350 ATX 350W Power Supply 90-135 vrms or
180-265 vrms switch-selectable CSA, CB, TUV, FCC, UL

$20.99

3. CPU
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ Venice 2.2GHz 512KB L2 Cache
Socket 939 Processor

$55.99

4. Heat Sink Fan
Thermaltake CL-P0114 120mm CPU Cooler with Heatsink

$44.99

5. RAM
pqi TURBO 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400
(PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory

$78.99

6. Motherboard
BIOSTAR GEFORCE 6100-M9 Socket 939 NVIDIA GeForce
6100 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

$59.99

7. Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB
Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

$42.99

8. DVD Burner
SAMSUNG Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL
18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X
CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache E-IDE/ATAPI
DVD Burner

$29.99

9. Midi controller
M-Audio O2 USB MIDI Controller

$99.99

10. Firewire Interface
PreSonus FIREBOX 24-bit/96kHz FireWire Recording
System

$299.99

11. Recording Software
Cubase SE3

$149.99

[BudmanRocks]

2. Power Supply
Rosewill RV350 ATX 350W Power Supply

I would put a larger power supply in it. Get atleast 600watts. This will also give you room to upgrade later should you decide too. Power Supplies have to run everything that is inside your computer. When doing audio your cpu and harddrives are being used hard. I run three 80 gig WD 7200. I'm also using a 500 watt power supply. If there is not enough wattage to keep everything going you may burn up the power supply. Also your hard drives could be staving for power too which could shorten thier life. I learned this the hard way. I had a old dell P-4 2.2 and my power supply went out and I just happened to have a older one laying around. It was only 250 watts and it lasted 2 hours powering that computer. When the power supply went it took the motherboard with it.

7. Hard Drive
Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JD 80GB 7200 RPM 8MB
Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

$42.99

8. DVD Burner
SAMSUNG Black 18X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL
18X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 12X DVD-RAM 16X DVD-ROM 48X
CD-R 32X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache E-IDE/ATAPI
DVD Burner

I would check into this also I'm not that familar with Sata yet, but I don't know if you can mix IDE and SATA to gether ????? Maybe someone on here will know the answer to that.