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avid xpress dv and musicXPC PC based computers???
i want to buy one of the new PC based digidesign approved (on protools 7.0) computer systems. the guys at my local music shop seem to think that avid xpress dv will work fine on any of the the desktop or laptop systems……but i want to make sure…has anyone successfully operated avid xpress dv on a musicXPC computer….
elieli
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I’m actually running Xpress Pro on a Biostar iDeq 210V, which is a XPC clone. Mine is an Athlon XP model. Xpress Pro works fine, at least on mine. I’ve also ran Xpress Pro on a Shuttle XPC SK43G model (another Athlon XP model). It’s really about the spec’s I guess. Just make sure that you’re close to the Avid recommended spec’s. I’ve got Nvidia graphic cards in both my XPC’s (5200 & 6200), both CPU’s are running over 1.8 Ghz (Athlon XP 2800 runs at 2.0 Ghz and a Athlon XP 3000 runs at 2.16 Ghz), and both machines have over 1.5 GB of RAM. Both of these XPC’s in particular use a VIA chipset. The onboard firewire card is also using a VIA chipset, so both of my XPC’s have an ADS BasicDV PCI firewire card in it (but really any Texas Instrument firewire chipset should do). All in all, if it’s just Xpress DV, then it should run just fine.
Nice little boxes that are guarenteed converstation starters. 🙂
Do you know what the spec’s are for this MusicXPC you’re looking at?
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