Pentium specs for Kontakt farm

[sinkd]

Just wanted to see if I could tap into the vast hardware experise out there. I am *gulp* purchasing a Pentium system to start my little DAW farm. I am doing the purchase through a vendor at work, and was wondering what these specs looked like to those who know what is smooth... I will be using this machine to run libs in Kontakt and communicating via MIDIOverLan from my G5 dual 2. I will probably put in a RME card or an M-Audio card, and may spring for one more gig of RAM.

Also wondering what I should know about (disabling BIOS, onboard sound, etc.)

Thanks!

1 Intel Pentium 4 i915g Chipset System -uATX (Black)
1 1 Ch. UIDE/PCI Interface - built-in
1 4 Ch. Serial ATA Interface - built-in
1 On board sound ?
1 Serial/Parallel/USB/PS2 ports (ATX)- Built-in
1 5-Bay uATX/Mini-Tower/200W P4 ready (Black)
1 i915g 1-CPU uATX LGA775 w/VGA/HDA/G-LAN/SATA/DDR2
1 Intel P4 540 (3.2GHz) 1MB/800Mhz LGA775 w/HSNK/FAN
2 1.0GB DDR PC3200 (400Mhz) MEMORY MODULE

1 200GB Serial ATA Hard Drive SATA-150/7200rpm/8MB
1 80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive SATA-150/7200rpm/8MB
1 16xDVD 52x24x52xCD-RW Combo Drive (BLACK)

[jackn2mpu]

Just wanted to see if I could tap into the vast hardware experise out there. I am *gulp* purchasing a Pentium system to start my little DAW farm. I am doing the purchase through a vendor at work, and was wondering what these specs looked like to those who know what is smooth... I will be using this machine to run libs in Kontakt and communicating via MIDIOverLan from my G5 dual 2. I will probably put in a RME card or an M-Audio card, and may spring for one more gig of RAM.

Also wondering what I should know about (disabling BIOS, onboard sound, etc.)

Thanks!

1 Intel Pentium 4 i915g Chipset System -uATX (Black)
1 1 Ch. UIDE/PCI Interface - built-in
1 4 Ch. Serial ATA Interface - built-in
1 On board sound ?
1 Serial/Parallel/USB/PS2 ports (ATX)- Built-in
1 5-Bay uATX/Mini-Tower/200W P4 ready (Black)
1 i915g 1-CPU uATX LGA775 w/VGA/HDA/G-LAN/SATA/DDR2
1 Intel P4 540 (3.2GHz) 1MB/800Mhz LGA775 w/HSNK/FAN
2 1.0GB DDR PC3200 (400Mhz) MEMORY MODULE

1 200GB Serial ATA Hard Drive SATA-150/7200rpm/8MB
1 80GB Serial ATA Hard Drive SATA-150/7200rpm/8MB
1 16xDVD 52x24x52xCD-RW Combo Drive (BLACK)

Basic specs look good, but a few changes might do you better: Get a bigger power supply than 200 watt - that is too small for reliable work. Drop the on-board sound if possible. The RME pieces are good, just beware that not all of them have mic preamps. I'd say go MOTU by way of firewire. Speaking of firewire - you don't list that; get a firewire card. That will help with sound I/O better than using a card inside the computer. Since you're apparently building from scratch, put in the max RAM your machine can take. Go to crucial.com for memory. They have a wizard to help you pick the memory you can use.