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Posted by LoveHate on Oct-29-2017 18:43:

Building a pc

I have a budget of $2000 but if i can get away with spending less and still have a great build that will last me years to come i am open to suggestions !!

So far i have decided on the i7 7700 kraby lake as my cpu...

Thinking about going with 32 gb of ram..

Posted by tehlord on Oct-29-2017 21:43:

Go to Scan.co.uk

Check out their audio specific workstations and build your spec from there (you can pick custom build and see individual component choices).

They have a legendary testing team who understand audio PC's.

$2k is more than enough.

Posted by SystematicX1 on Oct-30-2017 08:48:

Re: Building a pc

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Originally posted by LoveHate

Thinking about going with 32 gb of ram..

Overkill

Posted by LoveHate on Oct-30-2017 13:54:

Re: Re: Building a pc

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Originally posted by SystematicX1
Overkill

perhaps, but i never want to be second best you know? i want to be the best.

but nah you say that now, but when you have all of those vst's running and those plugins stacked up, it might come in handy.

Posted by SystematicX1 on Oct-30-2017 19:57:

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Originally posted by LoveHate
perhaps, but i never want to be second best you know? i want to be the best.

but nah you say that now, but when you have all of those vst's running and those plugins stacked up, it might come in handy.

The factors that affect you are your CPU, the current DSP/processor load, your interface, interface driver quality, sample buffer size, your USB chain, sample rate (you will sometimes hear people say that higher sample rate = lower latency, but they often don't realize that higher sample rates actually need bigger buffer sizes to deliver the same amount of protection that smaller buffer sizes provide at lower sample rates.
CPU is everything. Do not get me wrong memory is very important but CPU should be your priority

Posted by LoveHate on Oct-30-2017 23:29:

Re: Re: Re: Re: Building a pc

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Originally posted by SystematicX1
The factors that affect you are your CPU, the current DSP/processor load, your interface, interface driver quality, sample buffer size, your USB chain, sample rate (you will sometimes hear people say that higher sample rate = lower latency, but they often don't realize that higher sample rates actually need bigger buffer sizes to deliver the same amount of protection that smaller buffer sizes provide at lower sample rates.
CPU is everything. Do not get me wrong memory is very important but CPU should be your priority

you seem to know a lot more about computers than i do !

i respect your advice as well as everyone else in this thread so far

i've been looking around at various components, and i came up with this, its frustrating because there is so many different stuff out there, but what do you think ?? overkill ??

kind of going for a rgb theme

its in canadian dollars btw, ideally if i had to chose between style or substance, i'd want both.

Posted by Zoso on Oct-31-2017 00:51:

Although the guide is not geared towards audio-specific builds, I always learn something from Tech Report's regularly updated System Guide. Here's a link to the September 2017 guide:

http://techreport.com/review/32474/...er-2017-edition

Posted by MSZ on Nov-02-2017 14:57:

Why do you need 750 watts if you have no GPUS?

Posted by LoveHate on Nov-02-2017 16:34:

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Originally posted by MSZ
Why do you need 750 watts if you have no GPUS?

I dont really know i just assumed that i needed it , looked at a lot of other builds online and saw that they were all using 750 and up ...black friday is coming up so im going to be on the lookout for deals n stuff

Posted by MSZ on Nov-02-2017 16:40:

500 W would be overkill for that build unless you plan on gaming and adding a gpu.

Posted by LoveHate on Nov-02-2017 17:02:

I never played a game on a pc am I missing out?

Posted by SystematicX1 on Nov-02-2017 19:05:

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Originally posted by LoveHate
I never played a game on a pc am I missing out?

Ha! uh..yes!

Posted by MSZ on Nov-04-2017 14:05:

Well you're pretty much playing a video game when you're producing.

Posted by Looney4Clooney on Nov-09-2017 19:49:

get a hackintosh build.

I used to own 2 towers. Now have 2 hackintosh that benchmark higher than any mac you can buy atm.

32 gigs of ram isn't really overkill. I use 64 gigs on 4 computers.

Posted by SystematicX1 on Nov-10-2017 06:30:

Posted by Looney4Clooney on Nov-10-2017 19:45:

6 in all. 2 are just servers. They just act as actual instruments in a way. One computer is say a bass machine. One is a drums. I like to have things compartmentalized.

Using adat gives you enough routing to and from.

Posted by LoveHate on Nov-15-2017 01:16:

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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
get a hackintosh build.

I used to own 2 towers. Now have 2 hackintosh that benchmark higher than any mac you can buy atm.

32 gigs of ram isn't really overkill. I use 64 gigs on 4 computers.

64 divided by 4 is 16 i believe ...

so you got 16 per computer, which seems to be what most people are recommending in this thread,

i haven't really even considered a hackintosh, but ill I'm not ruling it out, I'm going to start purchasing stuff in the following days as black friday is upon is ,even though really its black friday month as the deals have already started, one thing is for sure i don't want to spend more than i have to because i am on a bit of a budget.

by the way whatever happened to those tutorial videos you were working on ??