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Hi Guys,
I've been out of building machines for a couple of years but have been tasked with helping a mate build a new machine for his home studio/man cave. Any help is much appreciated!
The machine is not going to be used for gaming, its main purpose will be for recording demos and some video editing.
Budget is ideally £800 if possible?? but id like to give him a couple of options so perhaps builds of £800-1K.
Preference is Intel probably an i7? but not going to hate on any help if an AMD build is posted!
Going to need a full build:
Case - plain stylish design, USB3.0 on front? maybe with some sound dampening?
Monitor
Keyboard
Mouse
CPU - i7? - maybe upgrade stock cooler?
MOBO
RAM - 16GB?
PSU
GPU - maybe a dedicated card for rendering video if editing? He has another screen so would need 2 x outputs on the MOBO if not using a dedicated card.
Storage - SSD for OS/programs and scratch area then 2TB disk for long term storage (he can move projects to the SSD to work if he wants the quicker load times etc)
..have i missed anything?
No OS needed (already got Win7 64bit that can be transferred)
Recording will be done through an existing external audio interface with audio monitors/headphones attached to that.
If anyone can help with getting a spec started that would be great
I've been out of building machines for a couple of years but have been tasked with helping a mate build a new machine for his home studio/man cave. Any help is much appreciated!
The machine is not going to be used for gaming, its main purpose will be for recording demos and some video editing.
Budget is ideally £800 if possible?? but id like to give him a couple of options so perhaps builds of £800-1K.
Preference is Intel probably an i7? but not going to hate on any help if an AMD build is posted!
Going to need a full build:
Case - plain stylish design, USB3.0 on front? maybe with some sound dampening?
Monitor
Keyboard
Mouse
CPU - i7? - maybe upgrade stock cooler?
MOBO
RAM - 16GB?
PSU
GPU - maybe a dedicated card for rendering video if editing? He has another screen so would need 2 x outputs on the MOBO if not using a dedicated card.
Storage - SSD for OS/programs and scratch area then 2TB disk for long term storage (he can move projects to the SSD to work if he wants the quicker load times etc)
..have i missed anything?
No OS needed (already got Win7 64bit that can be transferred)
Recording will be done through an existing external audio interface with audio monitors/headphones attached to that.
If anyone can help with getting a spec started that would be great