Need computer recommendations

[Manu]

I just bought an Mbox 2 for a ridiculous price, bundled with Protools.... That should be the next thing you should purchase, if you feel like that is needed of course...

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I just bought an Mbox 2 for a ridiculous price, bundled with Protools.... That should be the next thing you should purchase, if you feel like that is needed of course...

I've already purchased an m audio c series 2x2m.

It came with a bunch of software , mid in and out and 2 channels in and out. Works great and I love the huge volume knob.
My computer had no real audio outs so I needed something asap and it was $99. I love it.

[KLH]

I found a 2 year old dell with an i5 , 16gb ram and 500gb hard drive with win10 installed for $200. I went ahead and bought that. If I need to upgrade it I have a good bit of room. Figured I couldn't beat the price.

Daym son! That's a great deal! As was mentioned, throw in a 200+ GB SSD (for Windows and apps) and you'll be set! I'd keep the 500GB HDD for samples and data since that won't benefit from an SSD.

Congrats!

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Daym son! That's a great deal! As was mentioned, throw in a 200+ GB SSD (for Windows and apps) and you'll be set! I'd keep the 500GB HDD for samples and data since that won't benefit from an SSD.

Congrats!

I've already got a 1tb external that all my komplete 11 content is stored to.
I loaded up like 30 different plugins.
Kontact
Massive
Fm8
Battery
Absinthe

You get the picture.

At max I was using 32 percent of the cpu and the task manager say a I was using about 4 of the 16 available gigs of ram.

Also piled on a bunch of effects.

Seems ok. It was freaking at first but I forgot fl studio opens with a limiter on the master. Once I turned that off all good.

I need to streamline , excuse me I want to stream line the computer for audio. Haven't done that in about 8 years. I'll need to watch some videos.

[efinque]

I think 16Gb is a bit of an overkill.. although RAM is fairly cheap these days as well as storage space.

If I were you I'd look into a setup that has a 2GHz+ quad core (I remember reading somewhere that 2,4-2,8GHz dual/quad cores provide the optimal performance, anything above that doesn't really provide anything useful), 4 or 8Gb of RAM and a minimum of 160-200GB HD space (7200rpm, unless you insist on using SSDs; I have no experience with them in audio/production use)

SSD's, EEPROM and similar emerging storage technologies can be unreliable and cause problems in the long run no matter how non-volatile they're marketed as so I wouldn't just yet put my money on them.. they may be ok with laptops and stuff where a lot of backups are made regularly.

EDIT : As for manufacturers I'd go for Intel unless you plan on gaming.. the AMD's were already falling behind in benchmarking some odd 10 years ago.

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My cpu is an i5 quad core with 4 virtual cores at 3.3 ghz ore turbo though actually performance shows 3.7ghz.