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$600.00 – Sandy Bridge Desktop

Posted by dbcooper on January 16, 2011
Posted in: Audio, Geeky Greats, Linux, Uncategorized.

Howdy folks, been a long time……

Any who, I thought I would bring back another round of “High End Desktop for a Low End Price”, this time, I’m tossing a fresh Sandy Bridge build out there.

While my last article was pretty detailed this one will be short and sweet, but at least it will get you started in some sort of direction. Keep in mind, I’m not including Windows or additional high powered video cards etc, but you can add as needed.

This would be a really nice box for everything but Gaming (just add a nice video card). So without further blah blah blah’ing

Intel i5-2500 – 3.3 Quad Core = $209.00
Intel BOXED DH67GD Board = $104.00
8GB of Crucial RAM = $99.00
WD 500GB SATA 6.0Gbps = $59.00
HEC MicroATX Case = $35.00
Antec 650Watt PSU = $75.00
Lite-On Dual Layer DVD Burner = $21.00

Final Cost $606.00

Additional / Optional Items:
ATI/NVIDIA Card for gaming etc. – $150+
Blu-Ray Burner = $80+
Windows 7 64bit = $99+
Nicer Antec Case = $99.00
Nicer Corsair PSU = $99.00

CD Archival and Re-Encoding – Using FLAC and LAME

Posted by dbcooper on March 2, 2010
Posted in: Audio.

PART – I:

Purpose:

The purpose of this guide is to provide general information on the following items.

Suggested software/codec’s for digitally archiving your CD’s for long term storage and without losing an ounce of quality. (I.E. Using the Open Source FLAC lossless encoder)

Encode from the Archived FLAC files for the most currently used/popular portable format currently being used; IMHO it’s still MP3’s.

Tools I Used:

Operating System: Windows 7

Secure Ripper/Encoder: dBpoweramp 13.3:  http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

Codec’s: Lossless = FLAC 1.2.1  and  Lossy = Lame 3.98.2 (included in the install)

Disclaimer:

I’m not responsible for anything period…..these are just my opinions
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