FredericBernard
Active Member
Hey Guys,
As my main studio PC just died a few weeks ago, I am in need of a new powerful configuration. Mainly for running Cubase and a few VSTs (like East West Products and Omnisphere), but also for a bit of video cutting with Magix.
Certainly not an AMD CPU, but Intel (experienced a lot of trouble with my last PC build, which had an AMD CPU). Of course SSD (at least 500 if not 1000GB) for quick response time and at least 16GB Ram. Don't know much as for the graphics card, but would love to hear your advice on it. I really don't plan to do heavyload video-cutting, but just rather descent projects with Magix Video (possibly 3-5 minutes length each).
My main questions:
1. Would you generally rather build your own PC completly instead of buying a prebuild one?
2. Is a mini PC usually much more expensive than a normal PC?
3. Is a good graphics card any important for my usages?
4. Would you use rather Windows 7 or Windows 10? (of course 64 bit!)
5. I have been using Cubase 5 for ages on my old machine. Would you update rather to 10?
I plan to move away to a new flat soon, and as I plan to travel too while working, a mini PC sounds somewhat like a comfortable solution. Or should I rather go with a normal PC (kept in studio) and buy another DAW laptop just for traveling?
The budget would be about 600 up to 1k USD – if you think that would be realistic.
Thanks!
-https://fredericbernardmusic.com (Frederic)
As my main studio PC just died a few weeks ago, I am in need of a new powerful configuration. Mainly for running Cubase and a few VSTs (like East West Products and Omnisphere), but also for a bit of video cutting with Magix.
Certainly not an AMD CPU, but Intel (experienced a lot of trouble with my last PC build, which had an AMD CPU). Of course SSD (at least 500 if not 1000GB) for quick response time and at least 16GB Ram. Don't know much as for the graphics card, but would love to hear your advice on it. I really don't plan to do heavyload video-cutting, but just rather descent projects with Magix Video (possibly 3-5 minutes length each).
My main questions:
1. Would you generally rather build your own PC completly instead of buying a prebuild one?
2. Is a mini PC usually much more expensive than a normal PC?
3. Is a good graphics card any important for my usages?
4. Would you use rather Windows 7 or Windows 10? (of course 64 bit!)
5. I have been using Cubase 5 for ages on my old machine. Would you update rather to 10?
I plan to move away to a new flat soon, and as I plan to travel too while working, a mini PC sounds somewhat like a comfortable solution. Or should I rather go with a normal PC (kept in studio) and buy another DAW laptop just for traveling?
The budget would be about 600 up to 1k USD – if you think that would be realistic.
Thanks!
-https://fredericbernardmusic.com (Frederic)