{"id":12316,"date":"2001-10-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=12316"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"what-recommended-system-specifications","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-recommended-system-specifications\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the recommended system specifications?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best performance will probably be found in a 1+ GHz AMD Athlon system with DDR RAM. It will also be generally less expensive than a Pentium setup. We are not recommending the Pentium 4, as the chip itself costs as much as a complete Athlon system. And despite the higher clock speed, it may not be any faster.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re doing medium to large projects (at least 24 tracks) we recommend (at least) 512 MB of DDR RAM.<\/p>\n<p>For storage, it&#8217;s best to have separate drives for Windows and your audio files. These can be ATA drives, but we recommend a motherboard with support for two (separate) ATA busses and ATA-100 support. (IBM Deskstar drives are recommmended.) SCSI is also an excellent solution with potentially better performance (at much higher cost,  of course).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[34920,34919],"storecat":[],"itemids":[],"manufacturers":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Check out the What are the recommended system specifications? page at Sweetwater \u2014 the world&#039;s leading music technology and instrument retailer!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/what-recommended-system-specifications\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What are the recommended system specifications? - SweetCare\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The best performance will probably be found in a 1+ GHz AMD Athlon system with DDR RAM. 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