Can someone, with a decent ear for music editing, give me a decent spec for the following.
CPU - i7 cpu if possible for the 8 threads to help with editing
HD's - 500gig+ size SSD and 1TB storage - I need big SSD for audio software as the install for audio only, is over 250+gig minimum.
COOLER - quiet cooler - may not be OCing the cpu but need one that is quiet for obvious reasons being a music build the pc needs to be quiet (recording purposes) I don't fancy the whiney stock cooler.
MOBO - Decent motherboard that has plenty of USB2 and 3 slots and possibly have a Ti Firewire slot?(although not essential)
PSU - need a decent gold rated PSU as there will be a few things running off it Focusrite Saffire PRO 26, etc - Possibly 750 or 850W??
RAM - need 16 gig of quick RAM that wouldn't take too much tweaking if I did overclock the CPU
GRAPHICS - nothing special needed - enough to output to a 27" screen. Perhaps a low end r7 series or a 740 ?? I'll take advice on that
CASE - not a huge tower, nor a small form factor, but nothing too "vulgar" looking either. Enough to take all the components easily enough with as sleek a look as possible. Mid Tower perhaps?
MONITOR - Decent widescreen - It won't be for gaming at all but needs to be wide screen to run audio software screens.
DVD/CD burner - Anything basic but will last a while as I'll be burning music to cd's quite a bit.
I don't need a OS, Keyboard or Mouse
Stuff being used on the pc will be REAPER as my Digital Audio Workstation, KONTACT as my audio sampler, KOMPLETE/GUITAR RIG for guitar amp simulators and EZDrummer for digital drums.
Budget around 1000 Possibly going up to 1200 AT A PUSH. I'd prefer to keep things as low as I can and with it not having an expensive GPU I need to keep costs down.
Thanks for the help in advance
CPU - i7 cpu if possible for the 8 threads to help with editing
HD's - 500gig+ size SSD and 1TB storage - I need big SSD for audio software as the install for audio only, is over 250+gig minimum.
COOLER - quiet cooler - may not be OCing the cpu but need one that is quiet for obvious reasons being a music build the pc needs to be quiet (recording purposes) I don't fancy the whiney stock cooler.
MOBO - Decent motherboard that has plenty of USB2 and 3 slots and possibly have a Ti Firewire slot?(although not essential)
PSU - need a decent gold rated PSU as there will be a few things running off it Focusrite Saffire PRO 26, etc - Possibly 750 or 850W??
RAM - need 16 gig of quick RAM that wouldn't take too much tweaking if I did overclock the CPU
GRAPHICS - nothing special needed - enough to output to a 27" screen. Perhaps a low end r7 series or a 740 ?? I'll take advice on that
CASE - not a huge tower, nor a small form factor, but nothing too "vulgar" looking either. Enough to take all the components easily enough with as sleek a look as possible. Mid Tower perhaps?
MONITOR - Decent widescreen - It won't be for gaming at all but needs to be wide screen to run audio software screens.
DVD/CD burner - Anything basic but will last a while as I'll be burning music to cd's quite a bit.
I don't need a OS, Keyboard or Mouse
Stuff being used on the pc will be REAPER as my Digital Audio Workstation, KONTACT as my audio sampler, KOMPLETE/GUITAR RIG for guitar amp simulators and EZDrummer for digital drums.
Budget around 1000 Possibly going up to 1200 AT A PUSH. I'd prefer to keep things as low as I can and with it not having an expensive GPU I need to keep costs down.
Thanks for the help in advance
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