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Poeticfire666

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Hello and thank you for taking the time to look over my build. I am only vaguely familiar with pc building. I am hoping that you guys will be able to advise me whether or not all my components will work together here to achieve my ultimate goal of a long lasting, vaguely future proof home computer to be used as a home recording studio (pro tools express, ignite; making folk/electronic music) video editing (vacation videos/music videos) and some light gaming with multiple displays (civilization 5, dayz, eve online). Here's my build thus far:

Mobo- asus z97-a atx ddr3 2600 lga 1150
Cpu - intel core i7-4790
Ram- 16gb (2x8gb) Kingston hyper x fury 1600 MHz DDR3
Gpu- evga GeForce gtx 750Ti 2GB GDDR5 128bit
Sound Card- creative Soundblaster audigy rx7.1 soundcard SB1550
PSU- THERMALTAKE 650w 80+ bronze atx 12v 2.3
SSD- samsung 840 evo series 120GB 2.5" SATA3
HDD1- WD blue 1tb 3.5" SATA 6GB/S 64MB CACHE
HDD2- Toshiba 3tb 3.5" SATA 3 6GB/S 64MB cache
Monitor- ASUS vs248 h-p 24" full HD LED lit LCD

Any help or advice is appreciated. I have a friend helping me build it, was planning on running Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux
Cheers!

*edit*
Budget is $2000 with some wiggle room, but I need to buy a whole new set up from scratch. I have a 32" 720p TV I intend to use as the secondary display via hdmi.
Also if weren't already made obvious I am rather new to this. Again, thank you.
 
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Not bad. I would prefer Intel for a Gaming/Workstation build, but AMD 8 cores aren't bad at all. Here is what I think you should swap:

-SSD: I would say get the Samsung Pro series SSD of the same size, its a little bit more (10-20 bucks) but the read and write makes a huge difference. The pros usually sit at a constant 530/520mbps read/write.

Other than that, I think everything else is solid.
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Well if you were doing any type of editing/recording I would recommend at least having 32 gb at 1600. Also, a 6-8 core processor would make it that much better. The 2011 sockets from what I hear are amazing for editing photos, videos, etc. They have a lot of room for improvement and the ability to hold 64gb of ram. What was your budget?
 
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Poeticfire666

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The last time I built a computer we were counting RAM in MB. And I had adult supervision. Basically I didn't take much away from the experience other than a confidence that I know how all the components of the computer go together, 15 years or so ago. Again I have a friend helping me, and he's more than capable. I'm just tapping all my resources here for more information.
 
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Well for anything that has to do with rendering, recording, editing, or production, you would want to keep these things in mind:

-More Cores = More processing ability and less chance you will overload your computer.
-More Ram = Less wear and tear on your CPU. Also speeds up the rendering of videos or photos.
-Faster HDD/SSD = Faster Read/Write times. Allows you to do load up programs and save programs super fast.

Those are pretty much the main things I keep in mind if I were ever to build a computer for something other than gaming.
 
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Not bad. I would prefer Intel for a Gaming/Workstation build, but AMD 8 cores aren't bad at all. Here is what I think you should swap:

-SSD: I would say get the Samsung Pro series SSD of the same size, its a little bit more (10-20 bucks) but the read and write makes a huge difference. The pros usually sit at a constant 530/520mbps read/write.

Other than that, I think everything else is solid.
 
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