Music production and gaming PC for a friend

[Lovejoy!]

Hello all,

My friend has tasked me to find him a PC that we can build that will handle his needs to do some music production (for his job) and some gaming (not for his job). He's looking at a budget between £900-£1200 and won't need a monitor or storage spec'd with it. He isn't one for AAA single player games that push a 4090.

I've lost touch of what's bang for buck these days, so I've come here like many times in the past to make sure I'm getting him the best he can for his money

Thanks in advance.

 

[Tetras]

He's looking at a budget between £900-£1200 and won't need a monitor or storage spec'd with it

Bottom-end of budget option, can remove the M.2 drive if you don't want it.

Would advise checking that the music software plays nicely with Arc before purchase.

My basket at OcUK:

• 1 x Intel Core i5-12600K 3.70GHz (Alder Lake) Socket LGA1700 Processor - Retail (SKU: CP-69X-IN) = £149.99
• 1 x MSI PRO B760-P DDR4 II (LGA 1700) DDR4 ATX Motherboard (SKU: MOT-MSI-03380) = £124.99
• 1 x Team Group Vulcan Z T-Force 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4 PC4-25600C16 3200MHz Dual Channel Kit - Grey (SKU: MY-0AJ-TG) = £55.99
• 1 x Sparkle Intel ARC B580 GUARDIAN 12GB GDDR6 Graphics Card (SKU: GRA-SPK-03945) = £274.00
• 1 x Crucial T500 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen4 M.2 Solid State Drive (SKU: STO-CRU-01090) = £99.95
• 1 x Kolink Tranquility Silent Midi Tower Case - Black Noise Dampened (SKU: CA-03W-KK) = £62.98
• 1 x Phanteks AMP GH 750W 80PLUS Gold ATX Power Supply Modular - Black (SKU: POW-PHK-02517) = £84.95

• 1 x Arctic Freezer 36 120m Black CPU Cooler - 2x 120mm (SKU: COO-ARC-02420) = £22.99

Total: £875.84 (includes delivery: £0.00)​