Silent PCs, and the best quiet PC components including quiet cases, quiet computer cooling, quiet power supplies, quiet hard drives, and quiet CPU fans.
Digital Audio Workstations - AMD P180 Digital Audio Workstation
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As the foremost leader in quiet PCs, our systems are designed with the very best technology and knowledge when it comes to silent computing and quality custom PCs. Every item in our PCs (not just a select few) is geared to produce a completely silent environment. This silent environment is imperative when it comes to producing an audio workstation which produces absolutely dry signal. A clean recording requires the added attention to silence that we bring to the picture.
When configuring your Digital Audio Workstation, no shortcut is taken and every precaution is taken, so that every last component works together seamlessly, and is dead acoustically. We don't just choose quieter parts, we choose the quietest, best performing parts available and assemble them cleanly to optimize airflow and minimize the slightest vibration. We don't just replace one or two parts in our system with relatively quiet components, we replace each component with the quietest part.
For instance, in this Digital Audio Workstation, the following are carefully selected, potentially noisy parts, which we have replaced with the best that silent computing has to offer:
Power Supply Our quiet power supply options (Nexus and Seasonic) both include the lowest noise levels available in any power supply, ample power, and complete reliability.
CPU Cooler The Zalman CNPS9500-AM2 double heatpipe CPU cooler is used for awesome cooling, paired with the dead silence you need for your audio applications.
Motherboard Chipset & Voltate Regulators The Asus M3A motherboard contains fanless heatsinks and heatpipes to effectively cool the CHIPSET heatsink and voltage regulators, without the use of a noisy fan.
Video Card Every video card choice not only includes dual head, but is silently cooled either with the manufacturer's video heatsink or with a Zalman silent video card cooler.
Hard Drive Every system comes with the most silent hard drive available -the Western Digital Quiet 160GB Hard Drive. This hard drive operates at an extremely silent 25 to 27 decibels. To further silence your hard drive/s, we recommend enclosing them in a Copper Smart Drive Enclosure.
Case The case used for your Digital Audio Workstation shouldn't be overlooked. Noise dampening features, easily removable side panel, removable drive cage, front port firewire and USB, and ample cooling are all important considerations in configuring digital audio workstations. The sleek, black P182 includes the best in all of these.
Case Insulation Every system comes with an option for case insulation to further dampen any vibration in your digital workstation.
Not only do we attend to every detail when it comes to silence, we select top performing computer and audio components, which will give you a quality digital audio workstation once only available at unreachable prices.
Our award winning ASUS M3A motherboard comes with 10 USB 2.0 ports, Coaxial and Optical S/PDIF, a Firewire port, as well as ample expansion slots. All of these features are requirements of peripheral-heavy digital audio workstations.
We offer a high end motherboard with this system, the ASUS M3A. The ASUS Motherboard leaves nothing to be desired in terms of features, including SATA 3.0Gbps controllers, support for all Socket AM2 processors, Advanced Thermal Designing, and SLI compatibility.
The ASUS M3A Motherboard features:
We choose hefty Dual Core AMD Athlon 64 X2 CPUs. The use of a dual core CPU allows your CPU direct access to multi-threading. Application threading is crucial in order to improve digital signal processing performance by allowing the workstation to be responsive without degrading data. Dual Core CPUs also dramatically improve general system performance in an unparalleled manner.
Digital Audio Workstations should never be short on memory, which helps your audio workstation with multi threading. As such, every digital machine we carry comes with a default 2 GB of lifetime warranty PC-5300 Kingston memory.
Not only are our Digital Audio Workstation hard drives selected for silence, but they are selected for ideal data access as well. Our high performance SATA2 hard drives include lightning fast application and data access. Every digital audio workstation includes a separate data hard drive for the quickest and most convenient data access possible. Custom hard drive partitioning is always available upon request.
The hands down OS winner for digital audio processing is Windows XP, which uses kernel streaming to lower latency and which also has the broadest compatibility with audio software. Because of this, our digital audio workstation comes with Windows XP Professional as a default. Windows XP Home can also be used without any downgrade in performance, if you can live without XP Pro's support for domains, multiple processors, and remote access.
Windows Vista drivers for M-Audio products coming soon!
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