Live! came out in 98, audigy in 2001, Audigy 2 2002, X-Fi 2005, would have the X-Fi for all the EAX supported games. I'd also grab a vortex 2(98) for a3d games, might be hard to find.

awgamer wrote on 2020-01-21, 11:57:

Live! came out in 98, audigy in 2001, Audigy 2 2002, X-Fi 2005, would have the X-Fi for all the EAX supported games. I'd also grab a vortex 2(98) for a3d games, might be hard to find.

He wants to use it as a studio/hifi PC, how are any of the above useful?

You have selective reading. "I want this to be a Music Studio/Juke box/Gaming PC" I've addressed the Gaming PC aspect. Just about any sound card would be fine for a juke box and "music studio" = especially clean recording?

awgamer wrote on 2020-01-21, 12:31:

You have selective reading. "I want this to be a Music Studio/Juke box/Gaming PC" I've addressed the Gaming PC aspect. Just about any sound card would be fine for a juke box and "music studio" = especially clean recording?

All of the cards you listed are terrible for recording with. Of the cards he has the EWS is the only one that would do that job justice.

>a card

You use more than one card, I suggest two for gaming. The cards I listed where merely the progression of eax cards, my suggestion was x-fi, and vortex 2 for a3d. He can do a third for "music studio."

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-01-20, 20:24:

Actually, I am going to turn this into a Juke Box and have it controlled remotely using my iPad and MS-Remote desktop app.

Noooo! Don't hide that beauty away!

Well, there are 5 (5.25 ) drive bays available. I want to use a Sound Blaster Audigy 2zs with live drive for one.
And a Fan/temp speed control panel for the other bay.
So I have 3 bays available because I can remove the floppy drive.

I can fill it with RGB fans and light strips with remote controller.

Going with an Audigy 2 means you're missing out on EAX 5.0, if that matters to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_EAX_support

https://www.mobygames.com/attribute/sheet/attributeId,1272/

Hey, The EAX logo kind of looks like the snail case too.

awgamer wrote on 2020-01-21, 13:48:

Going with an Audigy 2 means you're missing out on EAX 5.0, if that matters to you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_with_EAX_support

https://www.mobygames.com/attribute/sheet/attributeId,1272/

This one ?

Yes, of the cards you have the X-Fi is the card to use to get EAX 5.0.

wiretap wrote on 2020-01-21, 10:46:

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-01-21, 09:56:

This sounds interesting.

It held the top spot on 3DMark's website for about a week until I was beat out by people with LN2 overclocking 🤣.

Those 295's are terrible though. I went through several different RMA's because they all developed artifacting even at factory clockspeeds. I would avoid them. I later switched to ATI 5870's. It hadn't yet been released at the time of my initial build purchase.

Yeah, the original version of the GTX 295 card had issues. Then they released a version with both GPUs on a single board and a different cooler that ran much, much cooler.
I have a couple of the new revision as well as a couple HD5970 cards that I have plans for.

I would stick to the terratec cards simply because of the aluminium front panel aesthetics, simple reason why I got a DMX6fire is cause I want to stick it in a Lian Li ^^

and yeah can always add another card for more features/better DOS compatibility

Music studios don't use RCA jacks except for SPDIF, which they don't use much because they have ADAT. Or at least AES/EBU digital interfaces. If you're going to start dropping platinum hits in your aluminum snail box, you need a real early-2000s sound card. Like the MOTU 2408 core system:

piatd wrote on 2020-01-21, 06:13:

If you decide to keep things strictly 2005: […]
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If you decide to keep things strictly 2005:

candle_86 wrote on 2020-01-20, 05:11:

So 2005 […]
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So 2005

Athlon FX60 or x2 4800
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
2x1gb OCZ Platinum DDR600
2x 7800GTX 512
150gb Western digital raptor
320gb storage drives
Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZX
BFG Phsyx card

That's the ultimate 2005 gamer

I appreciate the attempted specificity. Preliminary research, however, indicates that the FX-60 was an early 2006 release. Also, I thought all PhysX hardware and games/patches started mid-2006?

awgamer wrote on 2020-01-20, 05:48:

2005, year before core 2 came out, top end was an FX-57 and 7800 gtx 512mb

I'd agree at this early point in my research that the FX-57 was the top gaming performer of 2005.

This thread is timely, as I recently acquired a rig locally for a reasonable price:
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe
Athlon 64 X2 4800+
A couple of Raptors in RAID (don't remember the model)
"some ram idk" 😉 good troll BTW
Two 6600 GTs in SLI

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I was only really interested in the motherboard and CPU. After seeing the prices of FX-60s, I decided to make this a 2005 rig. However, I don't expect the FX-57 to be much better in that regard, so the 4800+ may stay. The absence of 512MB 7800 GTXs also meant that I bought two 256MB 7800 GTXs to replace the GTs in SLI.

DSCN6003a.jpg

The case is an Antec SLK1600, which is a 2002 case with aesthetics I appreciate and cooling performance I do not. Back in 2003 , I had its superior kin, the Antec SLK3700AMB.

It would be more interesting --except to my wallet --to build an January 2006 PC, as kind of a last hurrah for AMD before the C2D reign. In keeping with the underdog theme, FX-60 would be joined by X1900XTX in crossfire. X1900XT X master card /dongle hunting, anyone?

I may be off on the FX60 but I remember the physx announcements in 2005 and hardware forsale at Christmas.

appiah4 wrote on 2020-01-21, 10:04:

@piatd Nice 2005 PC. I started my builds at year 2004 so I went for a Socket 754 Athlon 64 3700+ and X800XTPE. Do you have any benchmarks from that build?

I will eventually. I wasn't planning on jumping down the XP rabbit hole anytime soon.

I am going to put this off for now.
I may never do anything with this case because it is too BIG and I don’t have anywhere to put it but my garage.

If you end up wanting to get rid of it, send me a P.M. as I might just be interested in it.