Music PC (also used for small amount of Video Editing). Is this quiet enough? and is it overkill?

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thetomcon

New member
Took some pointers from previous threads, but if anyone has any opinions of this spec? I have other ssd's that will be going in this machine to hold libraries.And another for a couple of games (guilty pleasure)Don't get much time for it so I haven't gone wild on the GPU, But I do do some video editing so wanna check I'm covered there too. The NVMe is for operating system , Daw and plugins.

Is it quiet enough? Have I got any areas of overkill? etc. I understand what all these things do but very out of the loop on current gen.

Cheers

Own gear:
Running Studio One DAW
Mix of VST's Spitfire audio/Native instruments etc
2 screens
Komplete Kontrol Mk2 Keyboard
Focusrite Digital Audio Interface

Case
CORSAIR CARBIDE SERIES™ 275Q QUIET CASE
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.4GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® ROG STRIX X570-F GAMING (USB 3.2 Gen 2, PCIe 4.0) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
8GB AMD RADEON™ RX 590 - HDMI, DP - DX® 12
1st Storage Drive
NOT REQUIRED
1st M.2 SSD Drive
500GB SEAGATE FIRECUDA 520 GEN 4 PCIe NVMe (up to 5000MB/R, 2500MB/W)
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
NOT REQUIRED
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H115i RGB PLATINUM Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Wireless/Wired Networking
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT (Wi-Fi NOT INCLUDED)
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
 
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Bukky

Member
Well, some very good points there :
_Going full AMD (especially the gpu) is good for DPC latency
_PC should be silent enough
_Processor has both good single-core performance (when you work on few tracks but with a lot of heavy plugins, like for broadcasting) and good multicore performance (when you work on projects with many many tracks if your DAW handles multicore well)
_Gigabit LAN and not Killer LAN (very important for DPC latency too)

However, if you use huge Kontakt libraries (and I see you mentionned Spitfire Audio) I believe 32 Go of Ram would be much much better.
As for the main drive, I always go for Samsung Evo, especially M2 (and btw these also have drivers that go well with DPC latency), and especially if some of my plugins are sample-based (like Trillian for example).
Also, the lack of thunderbolt might be a problem later on, but that's more about future proofing as far as audio interfaces are concerned.
 
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