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Sound engineering PC

  • 13-01-2011 11:42AM
    #1
    Phobious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭Phobious


    Hey Guy,

    My Friend wants to some sound editing for a student movie and is interested in doing it regularly enough to invest in some hardware. He has turn to me to build him a PC but I normally only build Gaming PC's. What aspects should I concentrate on?

    Thanks,
    Fenlig


Comments

  • #2
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,946 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    Darian Witty Sonar wrote: »
    You wont need anything spectacular if its for audio only.

    +1

    The most likely bottleneck is HD latency\throughput and thats not at all common, you'd need to be working 100+ tracks to touch on what.
    Slap a single 10K RPM drive in there to prep things up a bit if you want, but its not needed, just "nice". Otherwise the spec isnt going to mean a lot. Hold off on any soundcard decisions until you find out what he's using first, he may in fact not be using a PC soundcard in the traditional sense (M-Audio or whatnot) so there might be no point in putting anything fancy in by PC terms.


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