Gordon.
(btw i enjoy our exchange of ideas,)

From what ive researched so far ive concluded the following for music production.

1..M.2 is a no brainer . uber fast and dirt cheap. Eg 256 gb. I’m getting 2 .
2..Selecting a processor with a single thread passmark score over 3000 is a good idea.
In case you havent seen this at passmark, and for any 3rd party reading this…
Heres the pass mark table.as of today.
(my b’day is next week and my new studio
Gadget from amazon just arrived , but my lovely wife wont let me open it…till b’day…lmao.)..

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

As one can see from above the i5 cpu’s prolly offer the best price/performance ratio.
my only concern with 12th gen cpu's is reading net articles re'heat'.
3..I think it is important to keep things in perspective..viz my current old i5 refurb normally boots into win (from cold) or biab or realband or reaps in around 4 secs.
So i ponder how much am i gonna shave off the 4 secs. And biab stereo mixes that take 40 secs.
As to performance diffs tween ddr 4 and 5 , i havent come up with anything definitive.I surmise this topic might increase more in importance if one goes bonkers on huge song Projects. As i normally do a song with max 40 traks, and often way under with asmattering of plug ins…i dont think it will affect moi.
4..For more info on cogent articles bout music production on a pc , slick audio has some interesting articles. …

https://www.slickaudio.com/music-production-blog/

Also lots of interesting info on gearspace.com . loads of posts like this big long thread.eg

Build a pc…..for music production....


https://gearspace.com/board/music-computers/560019-quot-today-we-build-our-studio-pc-quot-thread.html

re above go to the latest dated posts.

Frankly from my research for my needs a under ik dollars or 800 uk quids pc with fast
i5 on the single thread passmark , 2 m.2 ssd, pcie4 or later, lots of usb and other ports and 32 gigs ram ddr4 or later will more than fill my needs…till 10 ghz cpu’s and pcie version 99 lol comes out.

re 'tails' of course eddie is right.

Best

om

Last edited by justanoldmuso; 07/16/22 07:00 AM.

my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..)
https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs
(90 songs created useing bb/rb)
(lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)