Dell 8400 for Audio/Video

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Anyone using this combo? Lots of folks bad-mouthing Dell on the Cakewalk
forums but I'm very happy with my 5150. Through my employer I can get a Dell
8400 system w a P4 3.2ghz 800mz FSB, 1GB 533mhz memory, 160GB of HD,
firewire card, dual DVD +-R drives, etc., for about $900.

Anyone having any success with this system?

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"Jack A. Zucker" <jaz@jackzucker.com> wrote in message
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> Anyone using this combo? Lots of folks bad-mouthing Dell on the Cakewalk
> forums but I'm very happy with my 5150. Through my employer I can get a
Dell
> 8400 system w a P4 3.2ghz 800mz FSB, 1GB 533mhz memory, 160GB of HD,
> firewire card, dual DVD +-R drives, etc., for about $900.
>
> Anyone having any success with this system?
>

Can't think of why that wouldn't work well.

 

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"Jack A. Zucker" <jaz@jackzucker.com> wrote in message
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>
> Anyone using this combo? Lots of folks bad-mouthing Dell on the Cakewalk
> forums but I'm very happy with my 5150. Through my employer I can get a
Dell
> 8400 system w a P4 3.2ghz 800mz FSB, 1GB 533mhz memory, 160GB of HD,
> firewire card, dual DVD +-R drives, etc., for about $900.
>
> Anyone having any success with this system?
>

Can't think of why that wouldn't work well.

 

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"a.m." <acmost@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> "Jack A. Zucker" <jaz@jackzucker.com> wrote in message
> news:tY2dnQoOysXmkTjcRVn-qQ@adelphia.com...
> >
> > Anyone using this combo? Lots of folks bad-mouthing Dell on the Cakewalk
> > forums but I'm very happy with my 5150. Through my employer I can get a
> Dell
> > 8400 system w a P4 3.2ghz 800mz FSB, 1GB 533mhz memory, 160GB of HD,
> > firewire card, dual DVD +-R drives, etc., for about $900.
> >
> > Anyone having any success with this system?
> >
>
> Can't think of why that wouldn't work well.
>
>

Me neither. Many folks in the cakewalk forums complained of IRQ sharing and
the inability of the dell bios to separate shared IRQs even though plenty
were free.

I use a firewire audio device (presonus firepod) and hopefully being a PCI
card, the firewire card will have its own IRQ. I think some folks
complaining may have been doing USB audio.


--
Experience a revolutionary way to approach the instrument.
Introducing Sheets of Sound for Guitar
"Let the music govern the way you play guitar instead of the guitar
governing the way you play music!"

Check it out at:
http/www.sheetsofsound.net

 

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100% agreed there.


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