Building PC for home office and Pro Music production and Recording

ALIEN1X

ALIEN1X

ALIEN1X

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Hi,
I'm thinking of building a PC for home and professional music production and recording.
Following my research I have come up wit the following list of items/specification :

Motherboard : ASUS 170 or 270 series
CPU: intel i7 6700k 8mb
Silent Fan/Cooler: Dark Rock Pro 3
Silent power supply: Corsair RM550X
RAM: 2 X8GB DDR4
Silent Storage: SSD 500GB or WD HDD blue drive
CASE: Mid Tower ATX or 2-3u Rack case?
Drives: DVD Optical drive
OS: Windows 10

Any thoughts on above and anything else I may need would be helpful?
 
Would you not be better off getting an i5 rather than a I7, and put the money saved into some dedicated audio hardware? Like a fancy sound card, midi interface or whatever?

Do you need to budget for a decent speaker /monitor system and or headphones?

Will you be wanting to plug instruments in to sample etc.?
 
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FYI a 3U case is big enough to build a normal pc in with no problems using standard hardware (Just watch the cpu heat sink, no idea size of a Dark rock pro 3)

As U cases pull in the front and export the back they can be pretty noisy, you fitting it in a cabinet with sound proofing or anything?
 
How about something like this?

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mattyfez said:
Would you not be better off getting an i5 rather than a I7, and put the money saved into some dedicated audio hardware? Like a fancy sound card, midi interface or whatever?

Do you need to budget for a decent speaker /monitor system and or headphones?

Will you be wanting to plug instruments in to sample etc.?
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I have all the other things from my previous old setup so all I need is the tower/rack system, prefer slim rack if possible.
I thought i7 would be better then i5 due to software synths and the processing they use.

Ah the mother board if possible at all should have pci slot as I want to use my existing pro audio cards 2no or at east one of them.
 
VKleita said:
FYI a 3U case is big enough to build a normal pc in with no problems using standard hardware (Just watch the cpu heat sink, no idea size of a Dark rock pro 3)

As U cases pull in the front and export the back they can be pretty noisy, you fitting it in a cabinet with sound proofing or anything?
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Ah never thought about racks creating more noise if that's the case then Nice looking/slick modern mid ATX tower will do
 
Fair enough, an I7 will be better, I wasn't sure if you had budget constraints, hence the i5 suggestion. I7 aren't cheap so if your budget is strict, an i5 could save cash that could be spent elsewhere and not nessesarily be any detriment to the audio side of things.

Edit, if the software you use can benefit significantly from hyperthreading then I7 all the way.
 
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icey_haj said:
How about something like this?

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I would prefer intel rather then than AMD. My calculated costs from my list came to approx. £1193.00 I think the expensive parts was ssd drive, cpu and mid atx tower cost of £200 . I think If went for HDD drive and cheaper but nice tower it would bring the cost down to under 1k
 
Sure you can swap out the parts to bring the cost down a bit. I suggested Ryzen, because it does espcially well in things like editing and production scenarios, it's on a brand new socket which will be supported for a number of years, whereas the Intel won't.
 
ALIEN1X said:
Apart from price and a quiet drive is there really that much difference in performance between ssd and hdd?
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It's night and day different. Boot Windows 10 off a HDD you're talking minutes. Boot from an SSD you're talking 10s of seconds. It's a game changer for PC builds.
 
Agreed, I wouldn't consider a mechanical drive as a main drive these days if you are building a new system.

Mech drives are good for backups though.
 
davidmt83 said:
It's night and day different. Boot Windows 10 off a HDD you're talking minutes. Boot from an SSD you're talking 10s of seconds. It's a game changer for PC builds.
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I guess I could start of with HDD to keep cost down and later upgrade it to SSD but then again it would mean reinstalling the os and apps again
 
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