Advice on my building a Digital Audio Workstation computer:
I am building a system to use as a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and want to try to get in around $750-800, without memory, hard drives, or screen.
From all I've read on the music and hardware blogs, Intel is far better than AMD and that Core
speed is more important than the number of cores.
Now unless you disagree that Intel is a better choice than AMD six core, I've chosen the
Intel Core i7 Processor i7-2600K 3.4GHz 8MB LGA1155 CPU, which is about $300. (By the way the I'll be using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit with Cubase6 64-bit music software which they claim utilizes as many processors as are available.)
Based on that, here are the crucial specs for the motherboard I need and wondered what you would recommend:
2 external USB3 and 12 external standard USBs
At least one external firewire
At least 6 internal SATAs (2 running at 6gb/s) and, if possible, one IDE.
2 standard PCI slots and 2-4 PCIe slots (doesn't really how many of which kind).
Onboard video and audio don't matter
(audio computer people recommend NOT using onboard video to maximize resources for audio and the internal audio, if any, will be turned off. I use a Lynx digital Audio card which fits in a standard PCI slot)
Also, the motherboard must hold up to 32gb memory at 2133 mhz
Other specs aren't as important.
I was looking at the: ASUS P8P67 DELUXE (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel and because it can hold up to 32 gb of memory. It's expensive though and doesn't have IDE support (which isn't THAT important, I can always get an adapter), but otherwise fits the bill
Also, once I've selected my motherboard. I also need help selecting the following:
Case and fans,
CPU cooler
Power supply (maybe around 500-600 watts),
Cheap 512 video card,
and a multi-card reader?
Do you think I can get all this along with the CPU I mentioned for close to $750 or is that unrealistic? (that's NOT including memory, hard drives, DVD, keyboard, mouse, or monitor.)
I look forward to your helpful responses.
Sincerely,
marsxmarsx
I am building a system to use as a Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) and want to try to get in around $750-800, without memory, hard drives, or screen.
From all I've read on the music and hardware blogs, Intel is far better than AMD and that Core
speed is more important than the number of cores.
Now unless you disagree that Intel is a better choice than AMD six core, I've chosen the
Intel Core i7 Processor i7-2600K 3.4GHz 8MB LGA1155 CPU, which is about $300. (By the way the I'll be using Windows 7 Pro 64 bit with Cubase6 64-bit music software which they claim utilizes as many processors as are available.)
Based on that, here are the crucial specs for the motherboard I need and wondered what you would recommend:
2 external USB3 and 12 external standard USBs
At least one external firewire
At least 6 internal SATAs (2 running at 6gb/s) and, if possible, one IDE.
2 standard PCI slots and 2-4 PCIe slots (doesn't really how many of which kind).
Onboard video and audio don't matter
(audio computer people recommend NOT using onboard video to maximize resources for audio and the internal audio, if any, will be turned off. I use a Lynx digital Audio card which fits in a standard PCI slot)
Also, the motherboard must hold up to 32gb memory at 2133 mhz
Other specs aren't as important.
I was looking at the: ASUS P8P67 DELUXE (REV 3.0) LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel and because it can hold up to 32 gb of memory. It's expensive though and doesn't have IDE support (which isn't THAT important, I can always get an adapter), but otherwise fits the bill
Also, once I've selected my motherboard. I also need help selecting the following:
Case and fans,
CPU cooler
Power supply (maybe around 500-600 watts),
Cheap 512 video card,
and a multi-card reader?
Do you think I can get all this along with the CPU I mentioned for close to $750 or is that unrealistic? (that's NOT including memory, hard drives, DVD, keyboard, mouse, or monitor.)
I look forward to your helpful responses.
Sincerely,
marsxmarsx