Audio Production Build

[hyg71886]

My brother (who I meet for the first time yesterday Is into music production, him and his friend has a group together and produce there own beats, mix, down mix, and master all there tracks as well as record. He was going to buy a mac but I told him I could build him the pc for less and if something went wrong I can come over and fix it instead of him mailing it in. He does not play ANY video games on pc, and all though he has a monitor already I think it would be good for him to have another for more space when he has alot of work up. I want to keep this build as low in cost as possible, 1500-2000 is the budget. He uses Pro Tools for all his recording and production.

cpu- AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

sound card- M-AUDIO Delta 1010LT

I haven't a clue for anything else and am open to suggestions

[Khalil]

SSD for your main drive. Even a 128GB, enough space for the software and main track recording work and a 2TB WD 7200 RPM hard drives to store finished songs, you can always add more, I am up to 6 1.5TB drives already on my recording rig.

For a motherboard ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX

Don't mess around with the Memory and get quality tested RAM, I would definately go with Crucial or Kingston to avoid brain damage when recording the tracks.

You will also need the right power supply SeaSonic S12II 430B 430W to elliminate the possiblity of electrical noise interference.

[hyg71886]

Ok got that, what do you think about the sound card

[Khalil]

Originally Posted by hyg71886 Ok got that, what do you think about the sound card

Great!

[hyg71886]

dvd- LITE-ON CD/DVD Burner

case- COOLER MASTER COSMOS 1000

OS/Pro tools work hd- Western Digital VelociRaptor 300gb

Storage hd- HITACHI Deskstar HD32000 2tb

mobo- ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3

sound card- M-AUDIO Delta 1010LT

psu- SeaSonic S12II 520 Bronze 520W

ram- Crucial Ballistix Tracer 6GB (3 x 2GB) ddr3 1600

cpu- AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

ups- Cyberpower CP1500AVRLCD

lcd- Hanns·G HH-251HPB Black 24.6

total(no shipping)- 1,779.88

What do you think?

[ryuk999]

Originally Posted by hyg71886 Storage hd- HITACHI Deskstar HD32000 2tb ram- Crucial Ballistix Tracer 6GB (3 x 2GB) ddr3 1600

Those 2 things I would reconsider...the ram is incompatible and a Hitachi drive is not known for staying "a float" for very long.
This ram is compatible.

[Khalil]

Both hard drives you chose have problems, the Velociraptors are the worst thing WD ever made, those things failure rate is super high.
Hitachi don't fail as much but they are loud and tend to generate errors which makes them in my opinion unsuitable for this application.
I would go with an SSD drive for OS and apps. and a WD 2TB Green for storage.

[hyg71886]

really I had the last series rapto before the velociraptor drives and i rma'ed about 4-5 so I see your point. What about seagate for the 2tb drive? What size solid ssd drive would you recommend?

[Khalil]

I think a 100 to 128GB SSD is sufficient, I am using this one in my Audi Production rig and I am very happy with it. When recording tracks you want the best possible write speeds and mechanical drives generally can't keep up.
For the storage drive stick to WD Green, I do not recommend Seagate at this time.

[glc]

That's a dual channel mobo, not a triple channel. Get either 2 or 4 modules, not 3.