Experienced PC Builders in Ireland???

grindle

1440p as a main screen is the ideal (beginner screen as an all-out in-one - 3 x 1440 is the true ideal). 1080 w/tablet screen (if you own one) as a delaying measure to buying another screen is great. That's the good thing about a PC's modularity. If you have equipment that is very important (speakers) the other stuff can be delayed and everything is still workable.
720 is terrible in DAWs nowadays though. Borderline unworkable unless you love switching between different production screens and VSTs. And constantly scrolling up and down.

TerrorFirmer

satguy wrote: »

720p is grand if money is tight,, that is what I said..

When editing a timeline is just that "a timeline" it makes no sense to go for 1440p if the guy is working on mostly audio ..

If money abounds,, then 4k is even better..

No offence but I think you're trying to dig yourself out of a hole here...he has a budget of 1.5k I don't think pinching penny's and buying 2nd hand monitors for €20 is on the cards.

720P is almost unusable for proper editing, it's a total pain in the ass. No different than telling someone that 720P is grand for video editing.

Meek

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

That advice doesn't really make sense, editing audio is a visual interface in the same way video is, so saying that 720p is grand for 'just sound' is totally illogical. The higher the resolution the better, I would aim for 1440p at 27" or so.

No problem. All advice appreciated. Thanks.

grindle

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

..he has a budget of 1.5k I don't think pinching penny's and buying 2nd hand monitors for €20 is on the cards.

For a DAW where the price is for the whole PC complete with an i7, a fair bit of RAM, multiple storage drives, a midi port solution, decent speakers and hopefully at least one good screen - the budget is definitely in the realm of pinching pennies.

So I set about pinching pennies:

From mindfactory:
Mobo @ €100
CPU @ €333
CPU Cooler @ €50
32GB RAM @ €131
2 x 250GB SSDs = €177
1TB HDD @ €44
3TB HDD @ €91
PSU @ €56
Delivery + PayPal = ~€45
Mindfactory total = €1027

From Amazon:
Case @ €82
KB&M @ €13
Speakers @ €233
MIDI I/O @ €43
Monitor (from Amazon's Warehouse Deals) @ €103

Amazon total (after they've worked their conversion trickery) = €504

Drop the 3TB back-up HDD and change the 1TB HDD for this 2TB drive if you want to live dangerously and squeeze under budget with a mind towards buying a back-up drive soon(er or later) ಠ_ಠ

Meek

Hi again, everyone.

Many thanks for your messages already. It's all been interesting. I was wondering about whether you might be able to recommend a retailer that would sell me a build like the one I mentioned at the beginning of this thread. I need to have one soon so as to know how much of a budget I have left to play with to get sound-libraries and other equipment like earphones, speakers, etc.

All helpful advice greatly appreciated.

M.

Lu Tze

Meek wrote: »

Hi again, everyone.

Many thanks for your messages already. It's all been interesting. I was wondering about whether you might be able to recommend a retailer that would sell me a build like the one I mentioned at the beginning of this thread. I need to have one soon so as to know how much of a budget I have left to play with to get sound-libraries and other equipment like earphones, speakers, etc.

All helpful advice greatly appreciated.

M.

If you have your spec set, have a look a PC specialist website, you should be able to make up the equivalent spec there and see how much it would cost to be build and delivered approximately

Lu Tze

Lu Tze wrote: »

If you have your spec set, have a look a PC specialist website, you should be able to make up the equivalent spec there and see how much it would cost to be build and delivered approximately

Just follow up, I meant it would give you an approximate cost to have it built, not that the delivery would be approximate as I seem to have implied above, though it might make your neighbours happy!