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Superb after sales too.
This is excellent advice.
I use Cubase Pro 8 on a modest off-the-shelf Dell PC (i7, 16Gbyte RAM, 2 x 2GB 7200 hard drives, Win 8.1) and NI Komplete and can rack up a hundred tracks with plugins without an issue.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
In all this talk of very expensive processors etc there has hardly been mention of sound level MEASUREMENT!
To kick things off I have set my Maplin Special SPL meter* (# N33GJ) 300mm from my living room,PC which is mainly use to run a printer/scanner and BBC iPlayer. I have taken no special measures to silence the Asus home build and it reads 31dB C. The PC is clearly audible in the room making a faint "shushing" noise but there is no discernible whine or rumble so you hardly notice it. Not good enough for recording tho'but.
Next up, HP 1170 i3 Laptop. At 300mm from the fan port, 25.1 dBC near as. I say"near as" because I can find nowhere in the house quieter than 25.0dB atmo, 08:50. If I remember I shall take a reading at 01:00 tonight.
So, surely it would not be beyond the vendors of claimed quiet PCs and components to provide an SPL reading and a RTA plot so you could look for discrete tones? Fekkin stuff is pricey enough!
*The meter is only specced down to 40dB and so my readings are suspect. However, looking at 600 and 1000 quid meters on the RC comps site I find nothing going better than 30dB so the cheapy will do for relative tests?
Note, you need the C weighting. Most of the noise is moving air and rumble, an A meter will give a VERY optimistic result!
As has been said, you only need the PC as "silent" as the job demands.
Dave.
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http://www.quietpc.com/sys-a470s...and it doesn't make any noise. I love it. Seems plenty powerful enough, and finally the job is done....no noise, no more arsing around with expensive cases, fans and coolers to find you can still actually hear it, even from 5 feet away.
My new "silent" PC from Overclockers is anything but - considering I went for SSDs too I'm not impressed - will probably go down the same QuietPC bits and bobs path again eventually, but as I'm not recording much at the moment it isn't an issue.
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