Hello,
does anyone have to share a low latency and stable hardware PC built with enough power for a home studio? nothing extreme or crazy is needed. I produce ITB electronic music, I don´t record any external source. I use mostly VST and not Kontakt with huge libraries.
Ideally with USB/Thunderbolt 4 Support like 870E for AMD, for future expansion capabilities and compatibility.
I own already a Samsung 990 Pro 1Tb.
Budget max 1500€ but better around 1000€. Video card I don´t need anything special.


Thanks!!

 

Last edited: Jan 28, 2025

I always buy refurbished or even second hand PC Workstations. Don't know what country you are, I'm German and for example bought here https://www.softwarebilliger.de I looked up a Workstation PC, with Google I found out how old and how good it is, I chose 32 GB Ram, (according to the Workstation PC you can also take 64 GB Ram or more https://www.softwarebilliger.de/pc-computer/workstation/) and a second hard drive to be build in and the system worked brillant with Kontakt (also because of the 32 GB Ram) and VST Synths. I paid less than 500 Euro. Be aware to install newest driver of your audio device, fitting to the windows sytem, my audio device is an older USB focusrite scarlett second generation. If you record acoustic Instruments in the same room where the PC is, you may need very quiet fans. The Quality of the audio interface is very important to latency also. In the DAW the latency has to be configurated. Best Regards Thomas

 

Danke Thomas!
Ich wohne auch in Deutschland und ich werde diese Option abwegen

 

is 48khz/64 samples low enough? ryzen 7 5700x. win11-revios

 

Yes actually 44.1khz is enough. 64 samples should work even tho 32 would be better.
I’ve an Audient ID4. I know that a Babyface pro would be a better sound card for low latency tho.

 

this is anecdotal because i don't have the link but when i was researching this topic while choosing parts for my new computer i found a site (in german, had to translate) where this guy did a bunch of research with graphs and stuff where he tested a bunch of cpus and basically his recommendation boils down to "get the best amd cpu you can afford that still has all it's cores on one unit of fabric." what this means is that once you go over 8 cores you have the latency induced by cores communicating across the fabric interconnect when it comes to stuff like cache lookups or something. in other words, the 8-core ryzens outperformed the 12, 16, 24 core ones for realtime audio latency. of course more cores is better for some tasks but ultimately the part where a daw merges all the threads and collects/sums the results and writes to the relevant resource (soundcard audio buffer) is a task bound by a single thread

 

thank you very much!