I thought about building my first PC. But before buying all the parts, I thought it would be great to get some feedback about the parts I've chosen. I will use the PC most of the time for music and photo editing. I might use it a little bit for gaming too, but that's not very important to me. I listed all the parts here:
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/19Hwu
I'm not going to buy new optical drives or HDDs since I already a few older ones.
So what do you guys think? Will everything be allright? Or do you think I should change something? I'd be glad to get some feedback and hear your thoughts.
What's your budget for this build? if you have a couple hundred extra you could turn this into more of a beast.
I would also like to recommend the NZXT Phantom case to you, it's amazing for cooling, looks great and comes in many different sizes depending on what you need.
There is also cheaper RAM you can get that will perform better than corsair vengeance, look into the Mushkin Blackline 16GB DDR3-1866.
Also will you be doing any overclocking? or just want to keep your system cool? I would recommend one of Corsair's Hydro Series water coolers, they range in price for everyone's budget.
I definately agree with the memory, the Mushkin-RAM seems to be a much better deal. But i like the Define R4 Case somehow better. I heard it is also pretty good when it comes to airflow and it's equiped with some noise cancelling foam to make it very quiet. But I think choosing the case is not that important since I do not plan to make a serious overclock. And that's why I chose an aircooled solution. I heard many good things about those Corsair watercoolers but I'm scared a watercooler could fail more likely.
And when it comes to my budget. Well... I basically can't afford much more. So I hope this would be a nice system in this pricerange.
Depending on how many processes you implement on your audio editing (vst plugins, effects, automation, mastering suites, etc) you may want to opt for a 16GB kit.
That's if you do hardcore production. I have 8GB myself and it serves me well for sample based production on Reason and recording on Cubase.
Of course, you can always upgrade down the line if need be I suppose.
I've been building for audio / video editing for a while, I personally use most of the main suites especially Ableton, and to honest you're pretty overspec'd as is. I'd rearrange the build to include as much SSD memory as you can buy. It's the only thing that's going to make a big difference.
For audio editing 8GB RAM is absolutely loads, though seeing it's cheap these days you might as well go for 16, with your programs set to load all clips into memory (which is a must for very large projects) 16 is still more than enough. I assure you 32 would be a complete waste of money.
The cooler's in question are overkill. I'm not going to lie, I have a really nice Thermalright in my computer, but unless you're looking to push a really high overclock something like an Arctic freezer 13 is amazing performance / value for money. (besides most audio software isn't the most stable on super high OC's)
Going with a 3570k won't really loose any performance but it'll save you half the cost of a good SSD. The best value for money SSD's I've been buying are the Samsung 250GB's (not the 256GB's).
Lastly I'm gonna have to mention the letters SSD again, I cannot emphasize enough the benefits of having a decent sized SSD! Don't worry about it being the fastest, that doesn't matter at all, just get the best €\GB you can.
Firstly I'd like to thank all of you guys. The advice is really helpful.
As I heavily use Software-Synths and Sample-Based Software-Synths, I think I won't compromise on the CPU. Especially becouse some of my VST-Synths put an imense load on my CPU.
When it comes to the RAM I think you guys might be right. And I can always upgrade if I need to.
And with SSDs it's basically the same. I already have one SSD and there would be no problem to buy some more SSDs in the near future.