YO! What it do what it does!

Just ordered my new DAW computer by selecting all the components at an onlinestore! Wanted to know what you guys think about the specifications and the price?

Price: 1.263,65 EUROS / about 1.593,46 US-Dollars

129718 Fractal DESIGN Define R3 USB 3.0 [bk/pearl]
112639 BE QUIET! 630W L8-630W PURE POWER CM
134838 ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe, Z77 (dual PC3-12800U DDR3)
135233 INTEL CORE I7-3770K 3.50GHZ SKT1155 8MB CACHE BOXED IN
41837 NOCTUA NH-U12P SE2
110990 Corsair Vengeance Low Profile DIMM Kit blau 16GB PC3-12800U
43601 Western Digital Caviar Black 1000GB, SATA III, 54-7200rpm
135961 ASUS DRW-24B5ST schwarz, SATA, Retail
129831 ASUS ENGT520 SILENT/DI/2GD3(LP), GeForce GT 520, 2GB GDDR3
106511 Microsoft: Windows 7 Professional 64Bit +Service Pack 1
46460 Logitech MK120 Desktop USB

 

your ram and asus drive are german coloured ;)

nice one, but the noctua u12 fan doesnt allow you to use a common 19" case, thats why i have chosen nh-c12 (horizontal instead of vertical), but maybe you wont do that

i bet you will have a lot of fun with

 

ok. I guess i've chosen well this time. Thanks for the replies. I was thinking about buying an ssd drive but i desided to wait till they get cheaper. 500Euro/500gigs sounds not okay for me.

 

Cool, so I can ask you the following: is it true that the caviar black 1000gb gets very loud? and is it reliable?? Cause thats the things some people criticize about it. Actually the speed made me to go for it.

 

ditch the graphics card and stick with the integrated 1

 

i thought the graphics card would take away the graphic processing work from my cpu??! isnt that right???

 

i think you should of saved a bit more cash and went with the i5 and overclocked,as you need to disable hyper thredding for daws any way so you end up getting the same performance as the i5

 

Running a daw is hardly graphically intensive, and it's not like your cpu is going to be running flat out all the time (if much at all). Can't give you a % but I doubt you would see much gain at all. It's up to you at the end of the day if you want to pay that extra, not worth it imo.

 

Hey joem. What exactly is the reason for disabling hyper threading? What are the limitations of keeping this enabled? I have an i5 with hyper threading enabled and have experienced no problems whatsoever. I'm always down to make my machine more efficient for production, however.

 

daws are still read as single threaded applications hyperthredding is only good if your saying running multiple things at onece ie the internet and your daw and other things on top of that. if your just useing your daw then it dosent read your the virtual threads at all so it still triggers your cpu as a quad core. So thats why with the 15 and the 17 now being the same speeds then the only thing extra you pay for is the hyper thredding which isnt needed if you running just your daw.