Advice request for new system planning

[Vram]

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 14:49 -0500, David Teague(T-bird acct) wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> I want to build a system that to run Linux (probably Ubuntu or Kubuntu,
> possibly some other Debian derivative) and Windows. I would like a
> recommendation of:
> 
> Motherboard? What have you used with some success?
> 
> Processor do you like, preferably AMD. Which one? 32 or 64 bit? How fast?
>            I will be doing sound processing, in real time, where it 
> listens to me sing or
>            play and  repeats with corrected pitch in real time.

I like 64 bit AMD

> 
> How much RAM? 1GB? More? Less? (I think not.)
>            Advice on tech specs for RAM will be appreciated
> 
> Sound card (it needs to give as close to professional quality sound as I 
> can afford.)
> 
> Speakers? I need it flat from DC  to infrared. No, not really. but as 
> flat as possible
>               from 32 Hz  to 20,000 Hz (low C string on my bass to the 
> highest frequency
>               the human ear can hear, not that I can hear it at my age.) 
> Flat at the low end
>               is the hardest and the most expensive if I understand 
> correctly.
> 
> DVD/CD Linux compatible reader/burner Lite-On? Windows runs nearly 
> anything here.
> 
> Flat Panel monitor Make? Price? Size compared to a equivalent CRT monitor?
> 
> What rodentia do you prefer? I think I will prefer my mice tethered,  as 
> I tend
>             to lose TV controllers,  I am certain I will misplace an 
> infrared mouse.
>             Does anyone use a trackball? What do you like? Hate?
> 
> I tend to be a pack rat, so I think gobs and gobs of disk space. Two 
> fast 160 GB drives?
> 

SATA!!!!  Stay away from PATA

> Is it true that it is easier for Linux and Windows to coexist if 
> installed on different disks?


Can't prove it by me???

I always put them on same disk...

> 
> What have I missed?
> 
> Any advice at all, even on part of this will be appreciated.
> 
> Someone will ask what my budget is. I think $1000 to $1500 is the budget,
> but I would prefer to keep this to the lower side of that range, subject to
> good sound, and there it can run to $1500 if need be.
> 
> Apology to those who see this several times as I will post this on 
> several lists.
> 
> Warm Regards
> David
> 
> --


Good Luck 

Vram