New Music Production Computer

MCJosiah

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Nov 3, 2015
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Ok, I'm a young 19 year old Alternative Hip Hop artist & I do most of my music production in FL Studio. I mainly use my laptop with a Intel Core Dou @ 1.66Ghz with 667Mhz FSB, 2GB of DDR2 667Mhz Ram, & Intel GMA 950 Graphics, & a 160GB HDD at this point(which it does extremely well in music production for it's age!!!) & in the next few month I'm gonna be getting my desktop back from my old house, which is a Dell Studio XPS 8100 with a Intel Core i7-870 @ 2.93Ghz, & 16GB of DDR3 @ 1333Mhz, Western Digital Blue 1TB HDD, & a Nvidia GT 730 2GB DDR3 64-Bit @ 900Mhz. But if I where to build a totality new computer for music production, with some side photo editing, & lightweight video production, how would this build do with it, would it be a good build for music production? The main DAW's I would be using would be FL Studio 11, Audacity, & Ablenton 9 Live Lite. I would mainly be using Paint.Net for photo editing, & Filmora for video editing. Would this be a good music production computer?

Build on PC Part Picker:
https://pcpartpicker.com/guide/6NTwrH/music-production-computer

CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor,
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler,
Motherboard: Asus H110M-E/M.2 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard,
Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory,
Storage: Samsung 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive,
Video Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 1050 2GB Mini Video Card,
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case,
Power Supply: Corsair CXM 550W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply,
Optical Drive: Samsung SH-224BB DVD/CD Writer,
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional SP1 OEM 64-bit.

Y'all think this would be a good music production computer?

Please no rude or unrelated answers.

 
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That looks like a pretty solid build for music production. I can't comment on the video editing aspects, since I am not into that. It will certainly be a considerable improvement over your laptop.

The only thing I might recommend is adding a 7,200 RPM HDD (WD Black is a good choice), to record your sessions on. I use ProTools and for that software, a second drive is highly recommended. But if you are not recording a lot of live instruments at the same time, and are just overdubbing vocals over virtual instrument tracks, then the single SSD might work just fine. (But I would still recommend a second drive for backup, unless you have an external drive, or can connect to your other computer(s) over your home network to backup files).
That looks like a pretty solid build for music production. I can't comment on the video editing aspects, since I am not into that. It will certainly be a considerable improvement over your laptop.

The only thing I might recommend is adding a 7,200 RPM HDD (WD Black is a good choice), to record your sessions on. I use ProTools and for that software, a second drive is highly recommended. But if you are not recording a lot of live instruments at the same time, and are just overdubbing vocals over virtual instrument tracks, then the single SSD might work just fine. (But I would still recommend a second drive for backup, unless you have an external drive, or can connect to your other computer(s) over your home network to backup files).
 
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