I have a PC that's used for gaming, and it's pretty powerful and wondering if anyone uses their PC/laptop for both gaming and music production with stuff from R2R/sister site also installed? Any negative effects on the gaming aspects?

 

you good it will literally just take disk space

 

A good gaming PC will generally make a very good performing DAW PC, the only drawback might be fan noise if its an open case but otherwise you should be good with the addition of an audio interface. There won't really be any negatives expect for disk space but you could always buy another Nvme for your games! Just don't run games while your in your DAW of choice :D

 

Why would there be any negative aspects? A gaming PC is a PC just like any other PC.

And in case you wonder, I have also a gaming chair - still no issues.

 

no issues. in fact sometimes i got a game open on one screen and reaper open on the other, losing at both.

 

The only downside for me is noise, some drivers disabled for better latency, as bluetooth, wireless and extra consumptiom by using maximum performance (100% cpu, no idle, etc, typical config for better latency). If into uad ecosystem for me windows was very buggy, if not its just perfect. Audient and rme have excelent windows drivers

 

DPC Lagency Check is a good benchmark.
= internal delays between processes, hardware etc.

 

My production PC is my gaming PC which is also my programming PC. It has way too much shit installed and everything joined hands to live in harmony. I fail to understand why so many people are afraid of letting a computer do its work.

 

It depends: are you a casual or a competitive gamer?
If you are a casual then there is nothing to worry about, you can install anything on your PC, sometimes you will have to prioritize your Music Production environment but as a casual gamer there are almost no compromises.
However, if you want your PC to be very competitive and want the lowest latencies possible, then you will have to sacrifice many things related to any other task. I would say that if you really want to make sure the PC is fully optimized for gaming then you need a new computer only for that matter, because every new program, driver, device, OS settings, audio settings, network settings, etc. etc. will have an impact on latency and performance, we are talking about milliseconds here, but for real competitive gamers those differences are crucial for winning/losing.

I am both music producer and competitive gamer myself. Since my main activity comes from music production then everything in my PC is prioritized for that, but I also tried to configure my PC for competitive gaming as much as I could, and my latency readings are still behind pro players that have their own PCs build and configured only for gaming, so my next step is to buy a computer just for competitive gaming.
(My current PC is a Ryzen 9 7600, NVIDIA 3070 RTX, 32 of Ram, 3 Tb of NVME storage, Notcua Air coolers.)