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Evening chaps,
I've been debating this for a few weeks and I'm going to be taking the plunge and swapping up my macbook pro for a desktop windows machine for my music production. I have a budget of around £1000 to work with, not needing peripherals or an OS. This is what I've come up with:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £948.71
(includes shipping: £0.00)
This is what I've thrown together after browsing through the Overclockers site. Just a few things on the list to say: 32GB RAM. I know it's a lot but I regularly end up using the swap/paging file on my macbook with 16GB of ram due to large sample libraries being loaded into any one project, this is also hence the 500GB boot/library SSD I've added.
I would use the two 1TB drives as a RAID1 for project storage, is this a decent idea or would there be a better/more reliable way to store projects? I haven't added a HSF as I'm not 100% on what to go for in terms of quietness so advice would be great there too.
The only part of the build that is essential is the PCI-E firewire card as the interface I use is firewire only.
I've been debating this for a few weeks and I'm going to be taking the plunge and swapping up my macbook pro for a desktop windows machine for my music production. I have a budget of around £1000 to work with, not needing peripherals or an OS. This is what I've come up with:
My basket at Overclockers UK:
- 1 x Intel Core i7-6700K 4.0GHz (Skylake) Socket LGA1151 Processor - Retail= £289.99
- 1 x Siig 2-Port Texas Instruments (TI) Chipset Firewire Card - PCI Express= £39.95
- 1 x Team Group Elite 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 PC4-19200C16 2400MHz Quad Channel Kit - Black (TPKD432GM2400HC16Q= £99.95
- 1 x Fractal Design Define R5 Midi Tower Case - Blackout Edition= £89.99
- 1 x Asus Z170-E Intel Z170 (Socket 1151) DDR4 ATX Motherboard= £113.99
- 1 x Super Flower Golden Silent 500W Fanless "80 Plus Platinum" Power Supply - Black= £114.95
- 1 x Samsung 500GB 850 EVO SSD 2.5" SATA 6Gbps 32 Layer 3D V-NAND Solid State Drive (MZ-75E500B/EU)= £119.99
- 2 x WD Blue 1TB 7200rpm SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache HDD - OEM (WD10EZEX)= £39.95
Total: £948.71
(includes shipping: £0.00)
This is what I've thrown together after browsing through the Overclockers site. Just a few things on the list to say: 32GB RAM. I know it's a lot but I regularly end up using the swap/paging file on my macbook with 16GB of ram due to large sample libraries being loaded into any one project, this is also hence the 500GB boot/library SSD I've added.
I would use the two 1TB drives as a RAID1 for project storage, is this a decent idea or would there be a better/more reliable way to store projects? I haven't added a HSF as I'm not 100% on what to go for in terms of quietness so advice would be great there too.
The only part of the build that is essential is the PCI-E firewire card as the interface I use is firewire only.
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