Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
Gordon.
(btw i enjoy our exchange of ideas,)
Yes, me too.

Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
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 .

As I mostly use Linux and BiaB in Wine needs .wav files, I need 2T for BiaB alone. That makes the SSDs a fair chunk of my budget, whatever. I am, though, weighing up the Audiophile edition as a consequence.

Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso

2..Selecting a processor with a single thread passmark score over 3000 is a good idea.
One of my candidate processors, i5-11600t is only 2885, but it's a 35W TDP processor that I could run fanless in an ultra-short 1U case if I wish. I probably won't.

Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
(my b’day is next week and my new studio..

My 70th is in a couple of weeks, but my 45th wedding anniversary is the week before (bad planning, that!), so I must be patient. Actually I'm still waiting for the short 2U cases to arrive anyway....

Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
... So i ponder how much am i gonna shave off the 4 secs.

I'm not too bothered about boot time. I often have a pause that long at the bootloader so I can choose which operating system to boot. I am quite interested in the time for Biab and/or Reaper to load up a project, but if I halve the 5G/second I'll be pretty happy.

Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
Frankly from my research for my needs a under 1k dollars or 800 uk quids
Sadly it's 1k UKP, too, as most things here get a 20% tax stuck on top.

Incidentally, it isn't easy to tell from cpubenchmark.net whether the results accumulated are baseline or "turbo" or overclocked. I think they just collate results from end-user tests, so I suspect many CPUs are running in the faster modes. I don't want to do that, which makes me wonder whether, for me, there's actually a benefit in using a 12-series CPU.

I'm suspecting that I'll likely end up with an i5-11600, 32G RAM and 2x2T M.2 SSDs. 64G RAM if I can find a suitable board that will take more DDRs. Most seem to take only two.

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
AVL:MXE Linux; Windows 11
BIAB2025 Audiophile, a bunch of other software.
Kawai MP6, Ui24R, Focusrite Saffire Pro40 and Scarletts
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