That looks really nice! Why would you take intel over ryzen? Many here says ryzen is better and it would be retarded to not take it :o
Of course it is nonsense to buy Hardware which is nearly one year old .. SingleCore Performance on new Ryzens is as good as Intels .. so the CPU decision should be a no-brainer ..
If you're interested, here's my basic Hardware List: Mainboard: ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming-ITX/ac CPU: Intel Core i7-9700K CPU cooler: Noctua NH-D9L (or some aio water cooling solution) Thermal Compound: Noctua NT-H2 or Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Graphics: Gigabyte RTX 2080 (or a 1080 Ti) RAM: Corsair DIMM 32 GB DDR4-2666 (2x16GB for dual channel) Power: be quiet! Straight Power 11 650w SSD: Samsung 970 PRO 512 GB m.2 Audio: Zoom UAC-2 Interface
Everyone says this is better, that is better. I'm going for Intel because of compatibility. Also using that PC as hackintosh and that works best with Intel hardware. And in my opinion the 9700 is at the same level as the ryzen 3700. Maybe the ryzen is better for gaming, who knows. I'm not very much into gaming, just a little. Only use a better graphics card for hardware accelerated rendering using Octane in Cinema 4D.
Yes but the board only supports up to 2666 Mhz. Only can go further with overclocking (up to 4500Mhz) but I only start overclocking when I have some money left over (if something wents wrong and I need replacement quickly) ...had such a case before and burned my first RAM modules pretty fast
Yes, for hackintosh you have to get the most compatible hardware. The DawBench knows what is best for audio http://www.scanproaudio.info/2019/0...00x-dawbench-tested-3-is-it-the-magic-number/ ========================================================= For Intel CPU 2666MHz RAM is ok, but I would get with CAS 14. For AMD I would not get less than 3200, but I am not sure yet, have to wait for the NEW results from http://www.scanproaudio.info/category/test-labs/ The new results will be posted in a few days... The Ryzen 3700x faster for audio workloads as you can see in http://www.scanproaudio.info/2019/0...00x-dawbench-tested-3-is-it-the-magic-number/ But nowadays the Intel platform has mature BIOS/driver that AMD does not have, if you are not a "computer nerd guy" Intel is an easier path, but AMD CPUs are faster for audio and a LOT less vulnerable than Intel CPUs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_execution_CPU_vulnerabilities Go for the 7200rpm Barracuda HD. I prefer the Corsair PSU from 2018 over the 2019 model, buy the cheaper you find. https://se.pcpartpicker.com/product...-fully-modular-atx-power-supply-cp-9020179-na The Noctua NH-D15 will be cheaper and 100% good for the Ryzen 3700/3700x/3800x and Intel 9700K. The Noctua NH-D15 version for Intel https://se.pcpartpicker.com/product/4vzv6h/noctua-cpu-cooler-nhd15 The Noctua NH-D15 version for AMD https://se.pcpartpicker.com/product/shNypg/noctua-nh-d15-se-am4-1402-cfm-cpu-cooler-nh-d15-se-am4 Last edited: Aug 8, 2019
Well, it can't be helped you've several valid opinions from several members, because there're several good combinations. I wouldn't care for Hackintosh friendliness, from what you tell. Also, don't be in a hurry to overclock your CPU, I'm talking about the cooling system here. Regarding storage, with a good SSD and a 7200RPM HDD you're good to go. It's always tempting to have a second SSD, but stick to your budget. Coming from what you had this new one it will f*ing fly lol. You'll ran out of disk space, but this isn't like with the RAM, that you need to open the case and it's very advisable if not mandatory to have exactly the same. You've several options to buy later external storage, be it USB, whatever.
That much I don't know, I'm outdated with the current CPUs. I know that right now seems to be a nice competence between Intel and AMD in the medium-high end CPU market. Trust one of the fellas here that know better than I in this question. I don't think the DAW you're using is going to make an important difference.
You ask the same questions over and over again .. but why? It seems that none of our answers is good enough for you .. The community provided you know with a ton of links (DAWBench etc.) There won't be those big differences between the Systems which were posted here ..
You seem to be hung up about cpu vs cpu, but are willing to use on board audio for your DAW. It's crazy talk
Nah, everything can. Only with the Motherboard I want to use, it can't without overclocking. Quickly was reading, the Board you want to use (from your 1st post) also just supports RAM up to 2666Mhz and everything above only with overclocking. You also should be aware that this board is an intel only board so If you want to use a ryzen, you need another board with amd chipset. The list above is for my new system if you mean that. My current one with the i7 920 has just 8gb of DDR2 RAM, USB 2.0, 3 SSD's, a pretty old but cheap gtx 750 (had to replace my loved old gtx 285 after green lines on the display and a complete pc hang after 5mins... overclocked the gpu too much I think). Motherboard is an ASUS Rampage Extreme 2 and the cpu cooler an EKL Alpenföhn Brocken (that thing is a beast - almost as big as my ATX case is wide. If it just would have had 5mm more in hight, I never would have been able to close the case, haha). Even if I render some stuff in C4D, the cpu stays below 55°C... but it takes ages with that old CPU. And my setup has the M-Audio Delta 1010LT sound card, which I really loved to use and it still works like a charm, even if there are no official drivers for Win 10. Last edited: Aug 9, 2019
Ye i noticed, gonna go and get a ryzen 3800x and a good mobo for it, everyone here talk about soundcard how much impact it is but hard to know when i have never used one, no Idea how to setup one lol. I wont use a mic or real instruments to record so is it really any reasons for me? Last edited: Aug 8, 2019
What are you going to connect those Eris 4.5 speakers to? A sound card. Like this for example https://www.thomann.de/gb/presonus_audiobox_usb_96.htm I just chose Presonus as your speakers are the same. Connect via usb. Load drivers. Done Open FL and choose Presonus as the output. Buy those 2 first and you'll probably find your intel-i5 6400 will be a different machine. Nothing like your spec machine, but enough to get you started as it seems you are new to recording? Slamming down $$$ on a machine when you are learning isn't a great idea as it'll be out of spec by the time you need the power.
I think, if you don't want to produce music professionally, an extra sound card isn't neccessary. Most current on board solutions are quite nice for the beginning. A good sound card reduces the latency and the noise level and increases the sound quality. If you want to use good headphones, also get a good sound card. Otherwise it makes no sense as you can't reach the full range of sound. Since I bought mine, I was able to hear the smallest differences in audio, which I never was able to before. Also the quality and ammount of lows, mids and highs got increased dramatically. Even just listening to regular music on my sound card opened up an entire new world of quality. But back in the days, my on board solution was pure crap, nowdays it's much better. But you know what? A better sound card doesn't make you a better producer so it isn't really neccessary. We started making music on an old Windows 2000 PC with 256Mb RAM and a 500Mhz single core processor using Fruity Loops 3 & 4 and Cubase SX 3 + WaveLab 2 together with a simple on board audio jack and in that time we had the best ideas. Better hardware didn't make us better musicians, it just made things a bit more comfortable.
OMG... OP's specs indicate a 5400RPM HD... that means it's a LAPTOP!!!!!!!!!! Not a desktop... what idiot would put a 5400 rpm HD in a desktop!!!!!
