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[HELP] Novice building first PC

Wednesday November 13, 2024. 05:25 PM , from Gearslutz
Hello wonderful community,

I’m here to seek guidance on building my first PC, I am looking forward to you providing your valuable knowledge and expertise.

Quick background: I had a budget of $8k to buy a spec’d out M4 Max MacBook Pro. Why Apple? I heard about it being able to deliver PC speeds and ARM superiority, so if I can afford the luxury of a “portable PC”, great!

That was until I did some digging and came to conclusion that it’s more sensible to take the custom PC build route, and get same performance for fraction of the price. I understand that majority in music world are afraid and overwhelmed with the complications involved with music on PC and rather spend on a Mac knowing nothing can go wrong and not know about the existence of “system drivers”.. I think that is not a barrier for me and especially with your help this will be relatively straight forward.

Sorry if above was unnecessary, now for what’s relevant:

I want to build a PC, I have not done it before.

As mentioned before I have about $8k to spend. This PC is solely for music production and no gaming. I want to buy the most powerful PC that will give me the best experience with music creation. What do I mean by music creation? I am using 50-100 tracks, most will have cpu intensive plugins and FX (Kontakt, Nexus, Omnisphere, Pigments to name a few..), I want ultra low latency when recording on midi and NEVER to think about consolidation (freezing tracks), and just smooth playback.

This is what I have found, please let me know if you have something better:

CPU

The new Ryzen 9 series, not sure which one, was told 9950x, please confirm if good choice. (Should I get threadripper? Was told that DAWS don’t even know how to utilize the sheer amount of power, and I will never ever need so much power.. tell me if I’m wrong)

RAM

I want 128gb. I am in the dark about which company and config to get, the point is, I want the fastest in the context of loading kontakt libs and music prod in general.

STORAGE

8TB (option to upgrade to more, some day).

Again, need guidance with which brand which specs and config (2x4tb or 1x8tb..)

to achieve fastest speeds (like when loading orchestra libraries…), I understand internal SSD will be the fastest.

MOTHERBOARD

I am in the void with what to choose, not sure what to even ask.. want brand with best track record and reliability. Which boards do you guys use?

COOLING

Again, this PC is solely for music, I don’t want to hear any noise coming from the PC (!!), if I need to spend $1k to achieve that, I don’t care.. tell me what to buy and I buy.

GRAPHICS CARD

No gaming, best bank for buck under $500, maybe will upgrade someday RTX 4090

POWER

Not sure what I need, safe and reliable I guess is the key.

TOWER

I have a friend that will assemble the PC, I guess the most important thing I am looking for is that it will eliminate any noise coming from within, so I can have a virtually silent PC.

Mendel,

Thanks for your time!
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