Recommendations for someone looking to buy a new P.C. for Audio Production!

[pdiddy boy]

...the best PC (Personal Computer) I would recomend is a Mac Pro !

[W-W-Int]

Originally Posted by pdiddy boy

...the best PC (Personal Computer) I would recomend is a Mac Pro !

we really need to make this lame all too often seen comment bannable.

the sad fact is there's nothing and i mean nothing hardware wise except the added rom area for the efi in a mac pro that you can't get elsewhere.

if you want something that will be a good choice for a i7 9 series then look at the gigabyte x58 series motherboards and pick the one with the specs you'd like. asus is good too as is the msi upper end models. basically just look through the options from those three vendors in x58 chipset motherboards and you should be okay in picking any one of them.

get a good power supply while your at it.
thermaltake toughpower series
corsair
silverstone
cooler master

those are fairly decent brands as long as you stick to 650 watt and above you should be fine.


also make sure to buy ram that's on the motherboard vendor's approved list for the board you decide to get.

[siriusbliss]

Check out ADK.

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[holahola]

I think you should just get one of those latest Mac Pros.

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[H3RM3S]

It's not like I didn't consider Mac. I wouldn't mind a mac, but I'd like to get a Macbook Pro at some stage and rather have a PC as my main DAW workstation for now. Why? Because I do things other things apart from music production, and when it comes to that, PCs still take the cake. If you're only bent on doing work of the 'multimedia' type, and strictly for that, then Mac has its advantages. I'd get a dedicated Mac when I have the money one day. For now, a PC is still WAY more flexible in terms of the 'variety' of things I can do with it, and of course the ammount of support and backing it has.

Anyways, thanks for all the replies so far guys. If you've got anything else to add, please don't be shy!

H.