Its my Birthday in a day. PC specs please

[raisedfist]

So everyone is giving me money (including my own band account...)
Anyhow gonna get a new machine (PC, UK), and its been 5/6 years so whats the deal with new specs peeps. Help me out here. Looking at 2 grand or under....

 

[Damian B]

Are you looking to build or buy?

Go for an Intel i7 processor, at least 8GB of RAM (although you might as well put in 12 or 16 considering how cheap RAM is).

Go for a Solid State HD for the Windows drive, and then get 1 or 2 larger regular drives (7200rpm or higher) for storage, samples, sample libraries, etc.

Or, get a Mac! I just got a Macbook Pro and I've gotta say... I'm a convert. New Mac Pros are $2500, but you can get a certified refurbished one for less.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FD770LL/A/refurbished-mac-pro-32ghz-quad-core-intel-xeon-2012

 

[TheWinterSnow]

In the 2K range you can definitely look at the Second Gen Core i7 (Sandy Bridge) and look around on what else you need. You have lots of memory options as well and the capacity will be up to your budget.

I would look at this setup:

CPU
Motherboard
Memory
GPU
SDD
HDD
PSU
Optical Drive


Even though I used tiger direct, I think you are better off at looking at Amazon UK or Newegg UK as they can be cheaper.

The price before the case is about $2500 USD which is just shy of €2000 or about £1500.

The only think left is a case and I will leave that up to you. If you want it to be cheaper the best thing you can do is scale down the memory capacity, remove the SSD, lower the capacity of the HDD, and look at cheaper graphics cards if you don't plan on gaming, the one I listed will allow you to play all games at decent settings, but if you are just recording and surfing the net or using Photoshop (anything that isn't gaming) you could literally use a $30 GPU.

 

[Mutant]

Happy birthday

 

[ForHerDeadEyes]

I'm planning on posting my finished build on the latest G.A.S purchase-thread, recently finished it..
Here's the specs:

Intel Core i5 3570K, running it at 4,2GHz, with a Cooler Master 212 EVO
16GB RAM
Crucial M4 SSD 128GB for OS + Software and some VST/VSTi
Western Digital RE4 500GB for projects
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB for some vsts, samples, backups, random crap
Premier Pro 128GB SSD for samples, temp-files
PSU is a Corsair 430W v2

You could easily get a Core i7 and still fit the budget..
EDIT: The mobo = ASRock Z77 Pro4

 

[Clark Kent]

Times have changed in 5 years man. You can get a powerhouse computer for a little over 1000€ and you'll never run out of power at least for mixing and any computer game out there. My advice is that you use the other grand for something.. grand.

 

[Clark Kent]

But IT is actually the field that I study so I guess I can help. SSD hard drives all the way,

Go through these charts to see what the best hardware is performance-wise: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/

F.ex. the bang/buck ratio on the "Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz" processor is amazing so that would be the one to get started with.

 

[raisedfist]

Thanks for all the specs ppl. Its gonna rule! Just been doing some consolidating on my old machine and its slow.....Can't wait, I'll post up what I go for!