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After months of procrastinating, I've finally ordered a new set up to dedicate to recording. Hadn't realised, but my current one is 5 years old, on it's second motherboard and is very much creaking at the seams.
Here's the main info on what's coming from PC Specialist
Case | FRACTAL DEFINE R6 BLACK QUIET MID-TOWER CASE |
Processor (CPU) | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12 Core CPU (3.8GHz-4.6GHz/70MB CACHE/AM4) |
Motherboard | ASUS® TUF X570-PLUS GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0, CrossFireX) - RGB Ready! |
Memory (RAM) | 32GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB PRO DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 16GB) |
Graphics Card | 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 1030 |
1st Storage Drive | 2TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 256MB CACHE |
1st M.2 SSD Drive | 500GB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe (up to 3500MB/R, 3200MB/W) |
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive | 24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM |
Power Supply | CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET |
Power Cable | 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead) |
Processor Cooling | Noctua NH-U14S Ultra Quiet Performance CPU Cooler |
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And then I have the "joy" of installing all my various software.
Part of my is thinking this will be great: a fresh ordered set up, of only stuff I use and need.
Then I start to think about how long it will take...….Komplete Ultimate itself is huge, never mind everything else.....
I'll note how long it takes, and what I end up with etc, should anyone be interested.
World of pain or cathartic rejuvenation awaits?????
ha!
I thought about getting a better graphics card, but it's not for gaming at all, and this card is near silent, which is the main thing. Last thing I wanted was a big card with a fan on it.
My gaming days are well behind me.
Just out of interest, what is your DAW ?
I'm a Cubase person (back to Atari 1 meg days!)
I just don't have the time any more. If I get a bit of spare time, I would rather do music. I used to be into gamin quite a bit, but just can't be arsed anymore. Doesn't really hold my attention like it used to.Mind you, Call of Duty series was great, loved that.
@midiman1962 - I currently use Sonar Platinum, but it's no longer supported and has been morphed into Cakewalk by Bandlab, which is now free. I'll be putting Cakewalk on the new system as I'm familiar with it and have used it for donkey's years.
Tbh, most DAWs are as good as each other, for most people. Each one has it's quirks and positives/negatives, but IMO it's all about how you get on with it and if it does or does not hamper you.
Sonar was a bit glitchy but the new version is supposed to be a lot more reliable. We shall see.
I've got Reaper too, but don't really get on with it. I considered Logic Pro, but I can't be arsed putting in the time to learn a new DAW.
If I was starting afresh it would be a choice between Reaper and Cakewalk, as they are free and well featured. I don't think any hobbyist needs to shell out good money for a DAW anymore. Most of the fancy features will never get used.
Definitely zero point getting a better graphics card when you're not gaming, would be totally redundant.
I'm the same as you with gaming, any spare time I have I spend doing music.
Actually was recently off work sick for half a year and played a lot of Borderlands which was thoroughly enjoyable but not as much as music and now I'm back to the real world and have to choose.
Ultimately, games are enjoyable but at the end there's nothing to show for it whereas with music, even if it's just practicing, the skill has improved.
Hope you enjoy it mate.
@Lodious - oh very much so, so will I mate!! It's cost me a few quid so I am expecting it to rip through stuff. This system now (i7, but 2015) is dropping audio and suffering performance loads. Especially once i put a few juicy plugins in. Omnisphere is the main culprit. Often I have to bounce a track to audio just to remove the CPU drag.
Looking forward to seeing how it runs, esp with the OS on a M2 drive.
5 years is a long time to run a PC really. Mine is on all day every day, so this one has done well. Had a new motherboard in it last year, but apart from that it's been pretty good. Only a matter of time before something fatal goes though. Can't complain though, it's done well. This one was PC Specialist build too.
If it still doesn't satisfy you you've become spoiled by technology :P
I'm looking forward to you reporting back though. I'm going for the same CPU and I already know it will be very very fast but I wonder if it'll be to the point of being able to run the whole of my heaviest project in real time at low latency with no rendering. If it does it means I'll never need a new PC until they make big advances in available software.
Which would be a good thing because it's not like the old days where computers were getting much faster every year, it's reaching limits now. Thankfully for us, adding cores is the way they're upping things now and that's beneficial for multi-track work.
ha, well yes, I suppose I would be a tech brat if not happy.
Last night got set in to get this beast all up and running. Wouldn't work. No signal to the monitors. Proper monk on was had.
quick call to tech support and after a bit of faffing, found that the graphics card wasn't seated right. All working now. So, a bit of delay to getting going. So I did a short track on the old PC in about an hour, as a sort of swan song....!
btw, the CPU is absolutely massive! Incredibly quiet though, so it's worth considering getting the quiet fans as it will no doubt need a fair bit of cooling.