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[DrNomis_44]

Slight correction doc Reaper upgrades aren't free for life, only within the release.

I had to cough up another $60.00 when it went from R4 to R5, still a very small price to pay for a good product and I have it validated with a single licence on the 32 bit laptop and the 64 bit PC

Ah rightio, I didn't know that, still I reckon $60.00 beats what ProTools users have to pay to license their software, not only that, they also have to purchase iLoks too.

[kimball492]

Yep the latest 12 month upgrade was $299.00. Nearly $400 Aus. To buy Pro Tools 12 currently the cheapest I've seen is $600 US.thats nearly $800 Aus Dollars. Iloks cost about 70 dollars. As I've said I've come so far down the upgrading path now it's hard to change DAWs and then you have the learning a new DAW.But really love the idea of what Studio One Pro Currently off facility wise.

[DrNomis_44]

Yep the latest 12 month upgrade was $299.00. Nearly $400 Aus. To buy Pro Tools 12 currently the cheapest I've seen is $600 US.thats nearly $800 Aus Dollars. Iloks cost about 70 dollars. As I've said I've come so far down the upgrading path now it's hard to change DAWs and then you have the learning a new DAW.But really love the idea of what Studio One Pro Currently off facility wise.

I'd love to upgrade to a more recent version of ProTools but I currently don't have the budget for it, plus my old Mac G4 won't run any version later than ProTools LE 6.4, I'm still looking at buying an Eleven Rack this year but my mate has been saying that Avid will probably be releasing a new updated Eleven Rack soon.


I guess for the time being I'll have to make use of what I currently have till I can afford to do the upgrade.

[keloooe]

Nomis, try your hand at a Hackintosh if you don't have the budget for a proper Mac, search up tonymacx86 on Google for all the info you need, plus you could even run a proper dual boot system, or even just wipe the drives clean and run any other OS!

[kimball492]

Hey Kels did you finish your recordings. Look forward to hearing how you sound now as a band. The nice thing Doc is you no longer need a Mac to run pro tools. Pcs work great I use one also with pro tools 12.

[DrNomis_44]

Nomis, try your hand at a Hackintosh if you don't have the budget for a proper Mac, search up tonymacx86 on Google for all the info you need, plus you could even run a proper dual boot system, or even just wipe the drives clean and run any other OS!

I might give building a Hackintosh a go one day, I just went down to where all the rubbish bins were and saw an old PC that someone had chucked out, there was a fairly modern looking motherboard in it and it looks like it still has the CPU and CPU Heatsink still on it, just in the process of checking out what kind of CPU is installed on the motherboard.


Here's a pic of the motherboard I scored:




Okay, I managed to remove the CPU Heatsink from the motherboard easily enough, as it turns out here's the verdict on the CPU, it is an Intel i5-3330 running at 3.0Ghz, I'm not sure if the motherboard still works, or if the CPU is still good, I'll have to try it out one day.

The motherboard has Z77 Pro4-M written on it, so I'm assuming that's the motherboard model number.


I just googled the specs on the CPU, apparently it's a Quad Core.

[kimball492]

Hey Doc, I think you'll find it's possibly a ASrock motherboard? Nice find if it works

[DrNomis_44]

Hey Doc, I think you'll find it's possibly a ASrock motherboard? Nice find if it works

I think you're right mate, it does say ASRock on the motherboard.


Here's a closeup pic of the motherboard:





The Ram slots (Four) support DDR3 2800+ Ram Sticks.


As you said, it'd be really cool if the motherboard still works, I wonder if I'll be able to use it to build a Hackintosh, assuming the board does work, I found a spare 450 Watt Corsair Power Supply in my wardrobe, but I don't think that'll produce enough juice to power the motherboard, I also have a spare ATI 512MB PCI Express graphics card that I could use with the motherboard.

[kimball492]

Here's spec for motherboard supports 3rd and 2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 / Xeon® / Pentium® / Celeron® in LGA1155. http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%2...Specifications
As Kels suggests check out Tonymacx86 website see if board is compatible with Apples software.

[DrNomis_44]

Nomis, try your hand at a Hackintosh if you don't have the budget for a proper Mac, search up tonymacx86 on Google for all the info you need, plus you could even run a proper dual boot system, or even just wipe the drives clean and run any other OS!

As it turns out, the motherboard I scored is an ASRock Z77Pro4-M, what's even more interesting is I have just read something on that tonymacx86 about some guy asking if an ASRock Z77Pro4-M motherboard can be used to build a Hackintosh, he got a comment saying that it can, so if I can get the motherboard to work, I might see if I can have a go at building a Hackintosh out of it mate.