Go with 32gb, you can pick up a new geforce to next to nothing. But trust me you will be happy you went 32.
Want me to build you a computer doobs? lol that's what I went to school for, got my EET degree at DeVry
I run ableton right now on 64bit already. I get shit before it's released
Actually I'm running windows 8 on one of my machines lol.
Appreciate the offer but, before my health failed, I ran my own in-home computer repair service for a number of years, so i think I still remember how to install cards into PCI slots.
I have no clue as to how many PC's I've built since the first one back in 1974 (I'm a 2nd generation computer technician).
That one, our third computer (he named computer #1 "Elf", computer #2 was "Smurf", and comuter #3 was a more robust version he named "Smurf II". My dad's nickname at his job back then was "Papa Smurf" since he was older, curmudgeonly & and no-nonsense), had an 8080 processor running at a whopping 2-mHz, and we had an amazing 16KB of RAM, and stored the OS and program data on audio cassettes (Everything had to be on it's own cassette and then manually loaded into memory). (*edit: my dad designed & built the computer from scratch)
And programs either had to be written from scratch, or you could buy a large book from various computer clubs with dozens of different programs in it that I would have to data enter every line of code by hand, and then record it to the cassettes for future use (god forbid you screw up one line of code, because then you had to trace it down manually to find it and fix it).
Back then, my dad was helping test out nodes for ARPANET, so he had a "super fast" 90-baud modem to link up with it that he borrowed from his job.
I remember the first day he got online with it to show me.
He said, "If they can ever get faster data transfer for this thing it's going to take over the world."
But before I commit to spending money, I'm pretty sure it's just the main hard drive that failed (I run three internal drives. One for the OS & archiving, one for the programs & archiving, and one for the page file & archiving).
The drive that had the OS on it failed, but I looked back at the receipts and the drive was about 6 years old, so that's about the best one can hope for.
I'm going to re-install Windows on the newest hard drive (a 1-TB Caviar Black that's about a month old), and replace the failed drive & the next oldest drive with two new 1-TB Caviar Black's.
I've got all my important stuff archived, so I'm not worried about losing anything, but I'm sure it's just old hard drives that are causing the problem.
Would love to build up a new system, but won't if I don't absolutely have to.
I'm running a Q9450 at 3.5-gHz, so I'm not lacking in processing power yet, since I don't game anymore, and I do a complete servicing of it once a year or more (clean out dust, new thermal paste for the CPU, etc).
I just use my computer for internet (e-mail, research, youtube, hulu, netflix, riu, T&A, etc), for recording & creating music, creating art (Corel Painter & Photoshop), playing DVD movies, and writing.
And Ableton has been 64-bit for a few months now (starting with v8.34), but v9 is written specifically for 64-bit, and is due out in March (provided the beta testing goes well).
Have been using Ableton Suite for almost a year, and love it.
Amazing program!
Maybe we'll collaborate on something some day (?).
Well, back to work over here.
Splitting my time between my desk modification project and reviving my computer, so lots to get done.
Will be popping in & out until finished.
*edit: in case anyone is wondering, through newegg, it would have cost me about $850 for the CPU, a good motherboard, 32-GB of fast RAM, a cheap graphics card (GTX650), a good CPU heatsink & fan, and the OEM version of Windows 7 64-bit.