Jeid,
Great to hear you've solved all your initial problems and that you have a stable machine for your protool sessions. I had a few firewire issues when I first started with the Carillon machine a few years ago. A software update solved all my problems.

Just out of curiosity but what Digidesign hardware are you using? I assume this is the Murkle Bays kit at Iain was stalking about getting.

As you mention high end games are also very demanding and tend to stretch PC hardware.

Just got into HD video/DVD production (Dont talk to me about file sizes!!) - Off to order x2 400Gb external drives.

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