PC's for Music Production

psychonaught · Post by **psychonaught** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:27 pm

Im sorry if this has came up a lot before but i did a search and didn't find anything specifically helpful to me.
Ive been using a shitty old dell pc for ages and its really starting to fall apart now. I can't even use my midi keyboard with it as the latency is soo high. I was just wondering what specs i should be looking for when building/buying a new computer. There's a few websites ive been looking at that will build you your computer using parts they know are compliant with each other.
I was thinking the specs should be someting like this.

Intel Core 2 Duo (Is there any point shellin out for quadcore)

2GB RAM

250-320 DB SATA 7200rmp HDD

the company i was going to go with provides some all right motherboard with a GeForce 6100 graphics card.

im not really too sure about computers and i want the best performance for music production, and a machine that will be remotely future proof.

Ive already got an alreet external soundcard.

Looking to spend about £350-400

Ta

FSTZ · Post by **FSTZ** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:30 pm

thefootsoldiers · Post by **thefootsoldiers** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:35 pm

get a mac.......
but really it depends on how much money you got to spend and what software you use....
as for soundcards much the same and how many ins and outs you want..

psychonaught · Post by **psychonaught** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:53 pm

just realised it dont matter bout the soundcard ive got one sorted!

basically is quad core really worth the extra pennies?
is 250GB a good amount?
2GB of ram should be substantial from what ive heard/read.

dem ones · Post by **dem ones** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:26 pm

i just got a quad core and yes spend the extra 30 £you can get a chip for 165 now i have been told that you can also overclock it to 4.5 from 2.4
my pc all it cost 450 to build

psychonaught · Post by **psychonaught** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 7:34 pm

ahh cheers for that advice.
im a lacking a bit when it comes to pc's, i know the basics.
whats overclocking? isnt it detrimental to your processor?

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:26 pm

The idea you have sounds good already mate... 320 gig harddrive for sure, 2 gig of ram... and i have a core duo chip, i can run a whole heap of cpu-heavy synths and effects without it chugging up..

just make sure you stay XP, don't bother with vista

forensix (mcr) · Post by **forensix (mcr)** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 9:49 am

have more than one hard drive - aside from that the spec should be fine

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:43 pm

consider the size of the case..
a bigger case is better than a smaller one,as u would def need to add a proper internal sound card. and also heat wont be an issue.
dou core, 2gig ram

forensix (mcr) · Post by **forensix (mcr)** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 12:52 pm

feasible_weasel wrote:consider the size of the case..
a bigger case is better than a smaller one,as u would def need to add a proper internal sound card. and also heat wont be an issue.
dou core, 2gig ram

advice you could have needed a while back hey?

feasible_weasel · Post by **feasible_weasel** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:00 pm

forensix (mcr) wrote:
feasible_weasel wrote:consider the size of the case..
a bigger case is better than a smaller one,as u would def need to add a proper internal sound card. and also heat wont be an issue.
dou core, 2gig ram
advice you could have needed a while back hey?

indeed

lesson learnt now

dem ones · Post by **dem ones** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 1:04 pm

just take your time picking your pc if you can hold of to next year there is a price drop coming up

psychonaught · Post by **psychonaught** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:13 pm

thanks a lot for all the advice. ill take all of it into consideration

soo do people think that quadcore is a bit to much??
just thinking of the future where having a quadcore will proberbly become a must have.

psychonaught · Post by **psychonaught** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:53 pm

ive been reading up
and fuck quad core. too ££

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