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Hi,

After years with my old macbook I decided that it is time for the proper upgrade. I lost touch with the PC world and I have simply no idea whats the current best value stuff.

PC will be mainly used for Pro Tools - so light music production, home recordings etc as well as light gaming - Diablo 3 in particular (don't laugh).

I assumed that ProTools will benefit from as fast CPU as I can afford and put together this wee monster. No graphic card. This can wait until next month I guess.

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Thoughts? Shall I downgrade to i5? Will this weird m.2 socket SSD work? (I have no idea what is it:)

Thanks guys!
 
Hi,

That case only supports upto mATX sized boards and coolers need to be under 120mm in height.

Is it a small form factor PC you are wanting? or have you just got the wrong sized case?
 
ahh damn - my mistake. I would like small form indeed. is this any better? Its a draft really as im not sure which combination will be the best for the money. And I like this case a lot too:)

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EDIT: forgot about the coolers height. Need to find an alternative.
 
16GB of ram is really the minimum you should have for any music production, I would also get an addition HDD to use as your scratch drive (dedicated audio drive) with protools, it should also be a minimum of 7200rpm otherwise your going to run into disk read / write issues
 
Faster RAM, Bigger SSD, Better Cooler, Cheaper (how did he manage that?) :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11T3K2/16) £129.95
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 High Airflow PC Case - White (CC-9011069-WW) £69.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Silverstone Tundra Series TD03 Liquid CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
Total : £682.39 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Or, Slower RAM (cheaper) and Smaller PSU (still enough for a GTX 970) for under £650:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01) £99.95
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 High Airflow PC Case - White (CC-9011069-WW) £69.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x Silverstone Tundra Series TD03 Liquid CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
Total : £646.39 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
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Doomedspeed said:
Faster RAM, Bigger SSD, Better Cooler, Cheaper (how did he manage that?) :)

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB (2x8GB) PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (HX324C11T3K2/16) £129.95
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 High Airflow PC Case - White (CC-9011069-WW) £69.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
1 x Silverstone Tundra Series TD03 Liquid CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
Total : £682.39 (includes shipping : £8.00).



Or, Slower RAM (cheaper) and Smaller PSU (still enough for a GTX 970) for under £650:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-4690K 3.50GHz (Devil's Canyon) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £179.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TPKD316G1600HC11DC01) £99.95
1 x Crucial MX100 256GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT256MX100SSD1) £79.99
1 x Corsair Carbide Series Air 240 High Airflow PC Case - White (CC-9011069-WW) £69.95
1 x Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x Silverstone Tundra Series TD03 Liquid CPU Cooler £49.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 450W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £47.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.95
Total : £646.39 (includes shipping : £8.00).

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Perfect! Thank you:)

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Two questions:

- any reason for not using OEM version of i5-4690K?
- Gigabyte Z97M-DS3H mobo got "1 x CPU fan header and
1 x system fan header". Case have 3 fans. Will I be able to connect them all to this mobo? (apologies for stupid question. Its a long time since my last pc build)

Thanks
 
The OEM has a 1 year warranty vs 3 years of the retail version.

The OEM comes without a cooler or nice packaging.

The fans, hmm, you can get a fan splitter cable and run two fans of a single header.
 
Thinking about ATX build. I took all suggestions into consideration, added proper graphic card and this is what I came up with. Any issues with this build? (apart from the case being Pre order:) I also found HDD which I can use so no need for one.

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Thanks
 
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