PC for multimedia/music making

Mat_Lock

haha yeah that article is dated and ridiculous for what any home pro would need.

Even my flatmates Mac Mini 2.5ghz beast lets him create trance music to the highest quality.

hubb

Mat_Lock wrote: »

Will use a cheap motherboard, even cheaper PSU and a nasty plastic case, cheap ram too. There's a reason they're cheap and it will probably go pop after 6 months.

If you seriously want a Lightroom/DAW capable PC you will need to spend money

I appreciate that but you did agree my first post was competitive but the second was too overpriced. Both were from Dino PC. They do have a good reputation.

Ok, could you at least give me a rough list of what I would need for my requirements ?

hubb

Mat_Lock wrote: »

haha yeah that article is dated and ridiculous for what any home pro would need.

Even my flatmates Mac Mini 2.5ghz beast lets him create trance music to the highest quality.

I was about to ask if you think a Mac mini would be a good idea. I have an ipad and the music making quality is stunning.

Cisco001

I purchased from ebuyer many times. No problem at all.

What is your budget? I am getting confuse. The initial AMD is £460 while the new intel is £670.

Would you consider to build one yourself?

hubb

I was around £400-500 but am willing to go higher if needed.

Mat_Lock

hubb wrote: »

I appreciate that but you did agree my first post was competitive but the second was too overpriced. Both were from Dino PC. They do have a good reputation.

Ok, could you at least give me a rough list of what I would need for my requirements ?

It was competitive in the fact I built a similar specced one from scratch. I went over by £20 not including OS where as they had it all in one price. It's still an unknown entity what quality some of the parts they'd use.

Well he had the top spec Mac Mini from last year (he had his old one stolen and upgraded with their settlement fee plus a few hundred more). I think his would be about £900 in todays world.

It runs Logic Pro 9 with no qualms at all. I'd say it was a very capable little machine however you have to buy everything for it on top the software, sound card etc

I just specced one on Apple site and even the minimum I'd get is £759 and that's without all the 'necessary' cables to get it to work with a screen etc

hubb

Mat_Lock wrote: »

It was competitive in the fact I built a similar specced one from scratch. I went over by £20 not including OS where as they had it all in one price. It's still an unknown entity what quality some of the parts they'd use.

Well he had the top spec Mac Mini from last year (he had his old one stolen and upgraded with their settlement fee plus a few hundred more). I think his would be about £900 in todays world.

It runs Logic Pro 9 with no qualms at all. I'd say it was a very capable little machine however you have to buy everything for it on top the software, sound card etc

I just specced one on Apple site and even the minimum I'd get is £759 and that's without all the 'necessary' cables to get it to work with a screen etc

3 year warranty as well as listing all the parts they use. Surely that's got to be good ?

Cisco001

If it is £400 - 500. The initial dinopc option is not bad.
But I would change slightly.
CPU to FX6300
RAM is a bit slow. Personally would go for single stick of DDR3 1600 8GB such that you would have one empty RAM slot for upgrade in future. But unfortunately you don't have such option. Just leave it as it is.
GPU - AMD 7770
case - personally would get Zalman Z9 plus

Or alternatively you can consider this as you don't need to wait. But it has one year warranty only.
http://www.aria.co.uk/Systems/Gaming+Range/Next+Day+Gaming+PCs/Gladiator+X6300-HD+Piledriver+Six-Core+Next+Day+Gaming+PC+?productId=53180

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Software/Operating+Systems/Microsoft+Windows+7+Home+Premium+SP1+64-Bit+DVD+-+OEM+%5BGFC-02050%5D+?productId=38272

Cisco001

hubb wrote: »

3 year warranty as well as listing all the parts they use. Surely that's got to be good ?

3 year labour and one year part for sure care.

hubb

So for the money what would be best out of the Dino PC and Aria PC systems ?

Not sure why you say the 8gb of ram is a bit slow. It says its for high level gaming and multimedia viewing and creation.