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Hi,
I'm looking at getting a new PC for all things music- this will be it's main purpose, if not it's only purpose. Budget is around £1800. And before anyone suggests a Mac, don't want one - I have one, and just don't like it, or Logic.
I've done a fair bit of research, and it looks like the best value company is PC Specialist. I can get a slight mod of their DAW1500 spec PC, with an I7 7820 eight core CPU, 32GB RAM, for around 1750. Much better value than Scan at the same price point.
But, does anyone have any other suggestions? I want a desktop, not a laptop. I've done a build your own before, so not averse to doing that either actually. I'd rather someone else build it, so custom build appeals more tbh. It will be running Cakewalk/Sonar, Komplete, Omnisphere, and a load of other synths.
cheers for any thoughts, will be appreciated.
J
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But their pricing does seem to have become a bit ambitious.
Pretty much the same spec as the DAW1500, except it's got a much faster (and bigger) SSD and includes a monitor.
cheers all. @digitalscream - nice, thanks. Though I could take out the monitor, upgrade the motherboard to a 299. Is also missing a decent sized HDD, 4TB at least.
Hmmm...…..stuff to procrastinate on. Same as most kit/gear purchases - the research and faffery on decision is the most interesting bit. When it arrives, its inevitably not as exciting!!
I've got a PC Specialist tower, which was one of their audio stations, and that has been very reliable, dare I say that out loud.....
Also had a few laptops from them, hard to fault. Really good aftersales service too, exceptional even.
Looks like I have some configuring to do …..
Those NVMe drives are ferociously fast. You won't want a spinning rust drive holding you up with a machine like that.
For example, the time that I had my main machine rebuilding after a drive failure and my backup server on top of the desk (just a bare board) because of heat, plugged into a 4-way with strict instructions for nobody to go near it. The wife decided that the hoovering was more important, and plugged into that four-way...then took the hoover out of the room, reached the limit of the cable and yanked it...dragging the power supply, motherboard and still-spinning drives off the desk and crashing to the floor. Roughly 10 years' worth of work and code gone.
See, I thought that having the backup drives in RAID 1 was ultra-safe. Turns out nothing survives a wife who really wants to do some cleaning.
That's going some. We look after a few hundred people, and plenty of multi-drive servers, and I reckon we've only had about double that over the same period, which would cover a good few thousand drives. And very few of them catastrophic.
OTOH, none of them have involved over-enthusiastic vacuum cleaning, so I guess you're just in a more hostile environment!