Ray? Yes, ventilation will probably be required as they are often passively cooled rather than using a fan. It does keep them nice and quiet though. If you have room for ventilation they would be ideal for a small home "studio" corner. HP also do a range of mini PCs, but possibly not configurable like the PCSpecialist ones
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We’re running ableton lite on an old 2009 iMac with Yosemite and an Scarlett interface. It’s pretty good so far, but only just learning how to use it. Sounds like your bespoke computer will be a lot better. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
From reading yesterday I think I'll ditch my Presonus box and replace it with a better one. Mine is very slow USB 2 and a USB C box like a Motu 2 would be 20x faster and better DAC. I'm thinking this has been another part of the problem. I have to say I was almost completely happy with the old lappy and Presonus box until it quit on me but an excuse to upgrade can't be overlooked.
When I built my last PC, I found that selection of the case was the most difficult part. I also went mini ITX, if that helps? The other thing is not to limit memory and expansion, for what you're planning.
I'm hitting a few problems with this. They (on line build software) let me specify 3600 speed ram, but my research reveals the cpu chip only supports 2933. It makes me wonder about the rest of it TBH, more homework needed.
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Mine was a bit easier build to be honest, I wanted a music and photo server that was cheap to leave switch on all the time and could let me watch catch up TV. I did the build myself in the end.
I'm constantly changing what I think I want! That 10th gen i7 10700K chip is overkill I think, it has a rep as a space heater and requires a level of expensive cooling that's silly for me and probably stuffing in a small case on a limted choice of small motherboards would batter it's potential performance anyway. It's one of the best performing chips, about 12th of all current CPUs, the fasted i7 chip. Maybe I'd be better with the fastest 10th gen i5 chip which is rated at half the power consumption of the i7 one.
You need to work out if the fundamental differences between i5 and i7 actually buys you anything you really need. Some applications can't use all of the i7's features.
The presonus one does use all the cores up to 32, could be 48, it was a number I couldn't afford! While you were typing I was researching. The one in my now defuct laptop i5-7200u is the slowest performing i5 chip on the market, scoring 1757 compared to an i5-10600K at 8203 and that i7-10700K at 11238. But it's back to heat. Both those K versions are fast but 125w, they need infrastructure around them, both the cooling, case and board. An i5-10500 scores 7330 at 65w and would be 4.2x faster than my old one. The hot i5 and i7 chip would be 4.7 and 6.4x faster respectively. Conclusion K chips too much hassle. I fink I'll have another look at £1200 laptops. With this more reasonable attitude I might find one to suit but will they support a usb c device? Scores from here. https://benchmarks.ul.com/compare/best-cpus?search=
Power is a consideration (you live on a boat, right?) Lots of cores and plenty of RAM is good for your needs, raw processor speed not so much
The last time I looked, hyperthread cores weren't all they were cracked up to be, could be that things have improved, since then.
Everything I read for music production says go for speed and cores, but where there's a choice choose base speed above cores. I don't understand why you think raw speed is not so important when everyone else thinks it is.
The problem is, unless you have access to the code, you have very few tools at your disposal to figure out actually how well a given application is actually able to use those cores, or his well the memory access is written! And, not all cores are equal, it's creative marketing imho to call an HT core, a core.
