MusicXPC Pro R3 P4 Rackmount Music
Computer
The MusicXPC Professional R3 is a
rackmount music computer that fulfills the promise of taming the most
CPU-hungry virtual instrument of delivering so many audio tracks that
your ears scream for you to stop of storing so much data that you can
go on a 3-week vacation and find it still recording 24 192 audio upon
your return.Intel Core Duo CPU The Professional R3 is an Intel Core 2
Duo workhorse built on the 1066 MHz front-side-bus Intel P965 chipset.
It runs Windows XP music applications at the rate of a scream. The
dual-core engine is the latest wave of performance power coming to a
desktop near you. We are blown away at the performance increase
compared to the previous generations of processors - and you will be
too. For years pros have preached the virtues of the Intel
architecture and its outstanding performance attributes. Finally
everyone's on the bandwagon. While some of their competitors are just
getting their feet wet in the Wintel world MusicXPC is on the fourth
generation of music production powerhouses.Mother of all Motherboards
The Professional R3 music computer is equipped with a versatile and
powerful motherboard packed with features and new innovations that
reduce noise and temperature. This super-quiet fanless motherboard
supports 1066 MHz FSB Intel Pentium dual core and Core 2 processors
DDR2 RAM (Dual Channel) and PCI Express x16. The motherboard supports
the next-generation hard drives based on the SATA 3 GB/s storage
specification which provides enhanced scalability and a doubling of
the bus bandwidth for high-speed data retrieval and saving. The
external SATA port on the rear allow hot-plug connect/disconnect of
very high performance hard drives. The motherboard provides all the
normal ports that you would expect to find in a high-performance
computer and then some.2GB DDR2 RAM The Professional R3 is loaded with
2GB of top-tier dual channel DDR2 800 MHz RAM upgradeable to 8MB. All
RAM chips are not created equal. RAM chips are graded for quality by
the handful of top-tier manufacturers that actually make the chips.
RAM chips that pass are sold under top-tier brands. The ones that
marginally fail are sold off to second tier manufacturers and then
sold at discounts under a multitude of brand names. For CPU RAM and HD
intensive work such as professional digital audio production it can be
a fatal mistake to allow anything less than top-tier RAM into your
workspace. MusicXPC delivers only tested top-tier first-rate RAM in
these computers.1.1 Terabyte of HD Storage The Professional R3 is
meant for professional music production. This means that its storage
capacity can no longer be measured in Gigabytes - say hello to 1.1
TeraBytes of storage. As everyone who is reading this may know it is
not uncommon to use 25GB for a piano or string library. Therefore no
MusicXPC user should ever have to juggle HD space and erase this to
make room for that. The Professional R3 comes standard with a
magnificent 1.1 TeraByte of Hard Drive
