CASE: Fractal Design Define R6 Tempered Glass £109.99
MOBO: ASRock X370 Taichi £144.49
CPU: Ryzen 7 1700 £146
RAM: Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 Vengeance LPX 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3000 MHz £102.59
GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX 580 NITRO+ Special Edition 8 GB GDDR5 £231.50
SSD (OS & Programs): Samsung 500 GB 860 EVO £82.70
HDD (Samples etc): Toshiba P300 3TB 7200RPM £63.51
HDD (Backup): Toshiba P300 3TB 7200RPM £63.51
PSU: Seasonic FOCUS Plus Gold 750W £95.47

TOTAL: £1039.76

Building a PC, mostly for producing techno & electro music, have a bass station II & Mackie MS1202 mixer, will soon be buying behringer ms-101, rd-808 & korg volca drum. Already have audio interface, monitor, keyboard, mouse, HD650 headphones etc.

It will also be used for casual gaming & some video editing with Adobe Premiere.

Have I forgotten anything I'm going to need & have you guys & girls got any recommendations for alternative components of the build?

Cheers.

 

Last edited: Mar 11, 2019

Why not go with 2700 instead of 1700?

 

Decided to wait for the 3000 series now, Asus X570 mobos have been leaked & the 2000 series cpus are coming down in price on amazon.

https://wccftech.com/asus-x570-motherboards-next-gen-amd-ryzen-3000-cpus-leak-out/

 

Last edited: Mar 26, 2019

I'm looking forward to what your machine eventually looks like.
I'm kind of in a similar situation where I need a new pc ( long overdue), but I'm looking for both a good games machine and for audio use( jack of trades I suppose)

Question : is the 16gb enough memory or would you go for 32gb. I know it may sound like overkill, but then I know that DAWS can use a lot of memory ( especially Kontakt)

the other thing is about your hard drives. I have always been weary of going for TB drives with odd number in size ( 3, 6 etc) because of the views( I have heard) that the increase in space seems to be how they cram in more storage space rather than a physical increase ( even number size TBs) in storage space.

 

Yeah, my upgrade is long overdue as well, but I'll wait for Zen 2 as it should be coming in the next few months. Not sure if I'll be going with a 2700X or one of the 3000 chips yet, will wait to see the daw charts & prices.

I'm going to start off with 16GB of RAM & increase to 32GB if I feel like I need it.

Regarding the HD's, I wasn't aware of that, not sure how many platters are in the 3TB Toshiba drives compared to the number in 2 or 4TB drives. I'll do a bit more research & see what I can find out about that. Thanks for the head's up.

Edit: The Toshiba P300 3TB drives have 3 x 1TB platters, seems like a decent drive from a quick glance at this review;

https://www.kitguru.net/components/hard-drives/simon-crisp/toshiba-p300-3tb-hdd-review/

What do you think?

 

Last edited: Mar 26, 2019

I use those Toshiba drives, and specifically that 3 TB model. It's nice and I would recommend