Spec me...studio pc

[ooglewoogle]

I am needing to put together a budget system, with a primary task of recording (running seqencer, vst instruments/synths etc). I have all the recording gear, audio interface etc, so just after the system.

Ideally then, this will be a fairly quiet unit. I don't want to eat into the performance budget making it completely silent, so can make do with 'pretty damn quiet'.

Secondary tasks will be the odd bit of photoshop and some gaming, so some grunt to the setup would be good. I will probably be running an hd 23" monitor with it.

Budget for build is £5-600.

Currently running an old Athlon 3800 on A8N-SLI with a 7800gt...and it sounds like a ****** 747 taxiing for takeoff. Have no idea on noise levels on stock coolers with the current gear. Also, is fanless psu the way to go...or are latest gen a lot quieter?

I await your recommendation gentlemen.

Slainte Mhath!

 

[hp7909]

Unless doing heavy gaming, the mobos onboard GFX should do & run pretty 'damn' silent

 

[siumatfung]

add a couple of case fans

 

[sketch145]

I'm liking hp7909's build, them noctuas are very very quite indeed

 

[ooglewoogle]

Thanks for taking the time to spec up that machine guys. Very useful. Will give it some thought over the weekend.

Have a good one!

 

[OzZie]

What DAW are you using?

Chances are it'll support multi-core processing, in which case you'll defiantly want a quad. You'll also be wanting PC8500 memory too if you run VI/Samplers etc. For best performance, you should always use two 32MB Cache hard drives (one for system and software, other for audio files and samples).

 

[ooglewoogle]

@OzZie, thanks for your comments. Currently only going to be using a small mixerless audio interface, but hope to move on to a better DAW within the year. The PC8500 and double drive comments are well heeded, thanks.

@Everyone, having weighed up the options and advice given, I am thinking about the following spec. Any potential issues here? Thoughts appreciated.