I did a lot of research beginning Cyber Monday to build a new rig. After 10 hours of research and deal hunting I landed on this custom setup for $988. Let's hear thoughts on price point and performance!



(Quiet Case) NZXT H440
(Quiet PSU) Corsair RMx 850W
(Quiet CPU Fan) Scythe SCKTT-1000 Kotetsu



(Tracking HDD) 4TB Toshiba X300 7200RPM w/ 128MB Cache
(Boot/Software SSD) 250GB HP EX900 M.2 PCIe
(VST/Sample SSD) 1TB Intel 660p Series M.2 PCIe



(MOBO) ASUS Prime Z370-A
(CPU) Intel i7-8700K
(RAM) G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2666 Cas Latency 15

 

Nice one.
I would take a 3000mhz ram. To be honest you won't notice at all If the ram (cl) is 10 or 10.5 ns fast. But you might notice 300+ mhz ram speed.
Why 3000 MHz? I read an article last week about a ram speed test. Up till 3000mhz, they noticed a quite big performance increase of a test system. Everything above 3000 was not that much of an improvement. So the conclusion was, best performance per buck rating is 3000mhz at the moment. Of course, this was a common benchmark test, not a special test for a music pc.

 

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how the fuck did you manage to be under 988$? lol

here in italy, such a build would cost over 1500€

 

1900$ without monitor and operating system in my country wtf.

 

You can get this for about 1400€ in EU, maybe a bit less if you go hunting and buy from different stores. And with $-€ exchange this means almost 1600$. ENVY! Do they think we're all millionaires here..

Kidding! Enjoy your build! Post some tunes..