Home studio PC build

[Dazzzer10]

Can someone help me pick out a desktop build for a home studio I have £700 ? I will only be using it for music production only , midi instruments , vst plugins , Bitwig and ableton live , recording vocals , I have a Audio interface SSL 2 + would like to have usb c connect . Also I don't need a monitor .
I would also be open to spending more if there was a good over all benefit in the build .

 

[BongoHunter]

I guess audio software favours clock speed over core count (the AMD 3600x might be worth it for the extra clock speed)? Have speced up what should be quiet PC - PSU wasn't my first choice but its semi passive and a decent brand

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x be quiet! Pure Base 500 Midi Tower Case - Metallic Grey= £74.99
• 1 x Asus GeForce GT 1030 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £82.99
• 1 x MSI B450M Mortar MAX (Socket AM4) DDR4 mATX Motherboard= £89.99
• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x Seasonic S12III 550W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply= £57.95
• 1 x be quiet! Dark Rock 4 CPU Cooler= £64.99
• 1 x WD Blue SN550 500GB NVME M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 Solid State Drive (WDS500G2B0C)= £71.99
• 1 x Team Group Dark T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black/Grey (TDGED4= £74.99

Total: £711.08 (includes shipping: £13.20)


With more budget you could get more and or better RAM, or a larger storage drive (and maybe a backup drive?). A better graphics card would also let you use the machine for games.​

 

[ExoMale]

a small system which should be enough grunt for the needs and a good powerful enough psu if you wanted the gtx 1650 low profile for more grunt.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core 4.2GHz (Socket AM4) Processor - Retail= £179.99
• 1 x ASUS TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING (Socket AM4) DDR4 MATX Motherboard= £83.99
• 1 x Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-24000C16 3000MHz Dual Channel Kit - Black (CMK16GX4M2D30= £70.99
• 1 x WD Blue 3D NAND 1TB M.2 2280 Solid State Drive (WDS100T2B0B)= £124.99
• 1 x Kolink KLM-002 Micro-ATX Desktop Case - Black/Grey= £29.99
• 1 x Gigabyte GeForce GT 1030 Low Profile 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card= £79.99
• 1 x Silverstone Strider SFX Gold 450w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply (SST-ST45SF-G)= £86.99

Total: £668.63 (includes shipping: £11.70)​

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[orbitalwalsh]

Can someone help me pick out a desktop build for a home studio I have £700 ? I will only be using it for music production only , midi instruments , vst plugins , Bitwig and ableton live , recording vocals , I have a Audio interface SSL 2 + would like to have usb c connect . Also I don't need a monitor .
I would also be open to spending more if there was a good over all benefit in the build .

pure clock speed


My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Gigabyte B360 HD3 Intel B360 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £79.99
• 1 x Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £229.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21600C18 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £68.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Base 500 Midi Tower Case - Metallic Grey= £74.99
• 1 x be quiet! Shadow Rock 3 High Performance CPU Cooler= £44.99
• 1 x Kingston A400 960GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive - (SA400S37/960G)= £89.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 11 400W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £56.99

Total: £658.23 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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6 cores would handle the tracks fine if layering them separate etc .
dont need GPU due to internal iGPU which Ryzen 2600/3600 doesnt have .
Silent Base 500 and new Shadow Rock cooler which would handle the i5 9600k !

pushing to top of your budget would land Z390 which would allow you to overclock to 5.1-2 Ghz all cores and Ryzen wouldn't match that for single/dual core performance

ram speed doesn't matter as much with intel as AMD so hence cheapest 16gb i could find . would OC to 3000hz on the Z390 board.

My basket at Overclockers UK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-9600K 3.7GHz (Coffee Lake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - OEM= £229.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 PC4-21600C18 2666MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey= £68.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Base 500 Midi Tower Case - Metallic Grey= £74.99
• 1 x be quiet! Shadow Rock 3 High Performance CPU Cooler= £44.99
• 1 x Kingston A400 960GB SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" Solid State Hard Drive - (SA400S37/960G)= £89.99
• 1 x be quiet! Pure Power 11 400W 80 Plus Gold Power Supply= £56.99
• 1 x Gigabyte Z390 UD Intel Z390 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £109.99

Total: £688.23 (includes shipping: £12.30)
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