Haven't paid attention to PC Hardware in years - rough spec me please!

Docaroo

Docaroo

Docaroo

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Hi all,

Well having paid literally zero attention to hardware over the past couple of years I really need to upgrade/overhaul the PC I have.

Aims - Mostly music production (so bag loads of RAM) and occaisional gaming-ish ... a blazing cutting edge 500 quid graphics card is very much overkill :)

Here's what I have so far:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2.99 Ghz
2.00 Gb RAM
2x 500 Gb HDD
Some sort of nForce4 motherboard
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT

I basically haven't bothered upgrading this PC in years! So, even just a rough idea of a cracking Motherboard/RAM/CPU combo that could really help with running Cubase and plugins!

I also have a HUGE case which does my head in so downsizing would be great! :)

Thank you all! :)
 
Cubase rocks :D Tried massive?

Anyway, you could go for an AMD 3.0 Quadcore (Athlon x4 640) which run cubase smooth (i got one :D)

Then, Try a http://overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-025-FC

And then as much RAM as you can afford :D

Budget power :D

OR instead of that, try a Phenom X6. 6 cores suits cubase well :D

and casewise, I love the inwin griffin. Only £35 and looks amazing, not to mention huge ass fans :D
 
the pc in my sig is my studio PC

UD7 is rock solid for stability especially in audio, i cant explain it, but with all the audio drivers and things connected ive never had a blue screen related to them, where as every other pc ive had i have, 6gb of ram seems absolutely ample for studio work, i record bands and session singers as well as produce complicated sound scapes and 6gb is perfect, as for processor, the i7 950 is the sweet spot especially if overclocked, at stock a complicated massive preset on high will register 4-6% on cpu load.


EDIT: if your recording then silent fans and water cooling is a MUST nothing like getting fan sound detail clogging the mid range of the vocals! ahah, for causual gaming id go 460gtx.
 
For music production, some general tips from me:

- Get a 64-bit operating system - Windows 7 64-bit is an affordable and obvious choice
- Get at least 4GB RAM
- The Athlon dual core should be fine, but quad cores are so cheap now you may as well just go with one. It will be worth it.
- Consider a Solid State Drive (SSD) on which to install windows and your music production software. Pricy, not essential, but very quick and useful if you can afford it.

What music software/hardware are you using? I sometimes make beats, I rewire Reason 5 to Cubase 5 and use various VSTs. Got an E-MU 1616M PCI sound card on the cheap last year, great sound quality and low latency.
 
Docaroo said:
Thanks chaps! Don't worry about the psu I've got a decent one :)
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Bear in mind if you bought it 5 years ago or whatever it may not be ideal even if it was a quality PSU at the time, although as you aren't going for an enthusiast graphics card you may be ok.
 
HangTime said:
Bear in mind if you bought it 5 years ago or whatever it may not be ideal even if it was a quality PSU at the time, although as you aren't going for an enthusiast graphics card you may be ok.
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The PSU is fine only because the orginial one blew up last year haha - so I replaced it with a high spec PSU :)

Don't need an OS as I have Win7 64,

Basically it's going to be a smaller case, motherboard, CPU (quad core seems likely!) and 8 Gb RAM if I can stretch that high... What kinda RAM should I look out for?

Thanks for all the ideas so far though I can definitely work with this stuff now :)
 
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