puremusic
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Well, it's toast. When the video card went out I thought that was the only problem, I switched to integrated graphics and put getting a new on my list.
I was just taking notes the other day on which of my vst licenses require activation/deactivation as I did an OS reinstall when the video card died. Anyway I do have a backup, and I believe it is OK so there is that.
But now I have to plan out a whole new PC to be my main system for programming and DAW work. It's been I'd guess over 4 years since I built a system by hand, so I'm just using this itty bitty laptop that doesn't want to connect to my big monitor to read up on what the latest parts and possibilities are.
While I search through Newegg figuring out what parts to pick I thought I'd ask for any recommendations for PC builds for DAW work, as my previous PCs were built for programming purposes rather than great DAW performance. I'd just been planning to buy some 2TB SSDs, now I have to consider whether to go M2 or not, I know there's a discussion about that here.
It looks like 64GB is the max for typical consumer PCs these days and the top of the line is the i7-8086k. The PC I built that died had an Asrock motherboard, never was happy with it, the USB on it was always flaky, so I won't go that brand this time. If anyone has a newer I7 and LGA 1151 motherboard combo they're thrilled with for DAW tell me about it.
Can you even run Windows 7 on these new setups or am now finally forced to go Windows 10?
I suppose I should be considering a workstation build instead of a consumer build, so I could use more memory. Never done one of those before.
I was just taking notes the other day on which of my vst licenses require activation/deactivation as I did an OS reinstall when the video card died. Anyway I do have a backup, and I believe it is OK so there is that.
But now I have to plan out a whole new PC to be my main system for programming and DAW work. It's been I'd guess over 4 years since I built a system by hand, so I'm just using this itty bitty laptop that doesn't want to connect to my big monitor to read up on what the latest parts and possibilities are.
While I search through Newegg figuring out what parts to pick I thought I'd ask for any recommendations for PC builds for DAW work, as my previous PCs were built for programming purposes rather than great DAW performance. I'd just been planning to buy some 2TB SSDs, now I have to consider whether to go M2 or not, I know there's a discussion about that here.
It looks like 64GB is the max for typical consumer PCs these days and the top of the line is the i7-8086k. The PC I built that died had an Asrock motherboard, never was happy with it, the USB on it was always flaky, so I won't go that brand this time. If anyone has a newer I7 and LGA 1151 motherboard combo they're thrilled with for DAW tell me about it.
Can you even run Windows 7 on these new setups or am now finally forced to go Windows 10?
I suppose I should be considering a workstation build instead of a consumer build, so I could use more memory. Never done one of those before.
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