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  • Computer specs for VSL

    I need a new computer for composing music and flight simulation. In the July-Aug issue of UK magazine PC Pilot there was a computer reviewed which seems close to what I am after. The budget was £1700 and about £250 of this was for a 27” Asus monitor. The specs were:

    Xigmatec Midgard case

    650W Antec True Power 80+ power supply

    Intel i7 2600 quad core overclocked processor

    Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU cooler

    8GB Corsair DDR3 1600mhz RAM

    500GB Seagate Hybrid SSD with 4 GB of SSD memory

    1TB secondary hard drive

    DVD RW

    Asus P8P67 motherboard

    Nvidia GTX570 graphics card

    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit

    How will this serve for running Vienna on? I would want another 4 or 8 GB of DDR3 RAM for loading samples. I’m not sure whether I want a Hybrid SSD rather than a standard hard drive. Any advantage for streaming samples?

    Also thinking of upgrading to Vienna Instruments Pro but staying with the standard version of Vienna Enesmble - is this possible? Okay in a 64-bit environment?

    Thanks for your help.

    Sorry about the formatting stuff - I can't edit and delete that.