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I have 4500 bucks to blow out on a new PC, any pointers?
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| ponsshin |
I'm looking forward to buying a brand new PC for music production and graphic design. I have roughly around 4500 bucks to spend on new equipment but I don't really know exactly what to buy.
That's why I'm asking for your help and I DID PERFORM A SEARCH before posting;)
OK so here are the conditions:
1) only PC no mac (sorry for the mac fans)
2) around or below 4500 bucks
3) no sound card needed already got one
4) kick ass graphics card and processor for the whole Adobe suite
5) enough RAM to blast the hell away with samples on Ableton
6) enough disk space (circa 200 GB) but tremendous speed (at least 7200 rpm)
7) no Vista (works crap with Adobe Suite)
8) this setup should not include screen, keyboard, mouse , speakers all that
9) the rest is up to you
I really need the help since I'm not really like a superfan of computer hardware:toothless |
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| Magnus |
$4500 bucks to spend on a new PC?? with that budget you can get the best of the best and still have money left over.
Here is what I would personally buy if I had that much cash to blow on a new PC. I would go to Newegg.com and order the following:
CPU: Intel QX9775 (currently the most powerful CPU you can buy)
Videocards: 2 x Geforce GX280s in SLI
Motherboard: ASUS P5E3 Deluxe/WiFi-AP LGA 775 Intel X38 ATX
PSU: Corsair HX1000W
RAM: OCZ Intel Extreme Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ3X16004GK
Hard Drives: Western Digital VelociRaptor WD3000GLFS 300GB 10000 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive
With all of that you are at about $3800-$4000 so that leaves you around $500 left over for other things. This machine would crush anything you could throw at it. Good luck! |
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| palm |
| quote: | Originally posted by ponsshin
I really need the help since I'm not really like a superfan of computer hardware:toothless |
if ur not fan of computer hardware then i would not use 4500 "bucks" (euros???) on computer. 1000-1500 should be enough man. |
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| DeZmA |
I always buy one or two steps below the top of the line model (certainly for cpu and gpu). Computer stuff evolves just too fast and it's more bang for the buck. That way you save a lot of money that you can use to spend on a better soundcard or a synth or maybe for an earlier upgrade.
Also instead of buying 300 GB of 10k rpm harddisk, I'd go for 100 GB on 10k rmp to use for windows and programs, and 1TB (2x 500, with your samples and tracks backed up on the other) for data. |
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| [Ocean]State |
$4500 is a lot to spend.
I built a computer recently with all very good parts and very good specs for music production and I only spent around $1000.
I already had 2 monitors and the sound card. |
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| Fledz |
| quote: | Originally posted by Magnus
$4500 bucks to spend on a new PC?? with that budget you can get the best of the best and still have money left over.
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Not if he buys a Dell 30" LCD :p |
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| Fledz |
| quote: | | Memory bandwidth: 76.8GB/sec. |
:eek: Is that a typo?! |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by Magnus
$4500 bucks to spend on a new PC?? with that budget you can get the best of the best and still have money left over.
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this is stupid.
do not do this.
buying "the best" cpu (or anything for that matter) available at the time, you will pay double or more for a very tiny performance increase. you are best off finding the sweet spot for all your components (a few steps back from the best) and buying that.
i also wouldnt get a 300gb velociraptor. i'd get a smaller one and use it for OS + programs only, then normal 7.2k rpm ones for data/backup. this would actually be faster than having everything on one velociraptor anyway... because you can read/write off all the drives independantly and do things in parallel. |
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| cybernetica |
From what I experienced with my friend about 5 years ago, its almost useless to spend that much money. We both bought our PCs simultaneously, and he spent around 3000€ on a PC, while I spent 1000€. His PC became effectively obsolete only 3 months later than mine, so you really have to ask yourself if thats worth the extra expense for you. There is really not that much performance difference between high end and highest end, except that the price difference is huge.
I would get a good high quality PC, but not too high end. Asus has good mainboards from my experience, harddrive manufacturers dont make that much difference but look for one with good RPM and capacity, 8 GB of Ram and a quad core should be as future proof as it gets... Then I would get a decent blu ray drive, the power supply shouldnt be noname either.
A really good PC wont cost you more than 2000$, but if you really want to spend a lot of money, rather look for useful extras like a mirror harddisk backing up everything you write on the other. bluray drive, as I said. a lot of USB ports wouldnt hurt either. Large screen, of course. Since you got enough money, I would again like to mention to get rather high quality components than highest performance components. It pays off... My PC from 3 years ago was like 1200€ in price, I bought of course hi end equipment, but rather looked for good quality manufacturers. I still have the same windows installation running, I didnt have to change any parts, the machine is simply rock solid.
and of course anything that helps with audio. like good monitors n stuff. this is a music producer forum after all ffs. :p :whip: |
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| amit |
| buy an mpc 1000!!! trust me man... just get one |
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| ponsshin |
Thanks guys.
I was speaking in dollars because I was thinking of buying overseas (much less expensive even with shipping costs).
Sure if I could avoid spending my whole money on a new PC, I will. I'm not gonna spend $4500 just for the fun of it.
The reason why I want to spend a liitle extra cash is because the last computer I bought was a crappy laptop with unreplaceable parts that cost me $1500:(. So I'm looking forward to having a setup that can evolve and follow the trend if you know what I mean.
So point taken: not highest end but high end pc FTW.
edit: I was also checking Alienware's stuff. Seems like they're really into the top quality manufacturing instead of the highest performance deal. Does anybody here own an Alienware? |
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