fillip

but when I don't get a new graphics card, I have money for moar power, same for the PSU and case. I'm sorry, but this does not feel really helpful

yeah fun trick but ... as I said, I'm not interested in a new graphics card, and I also don't need a new power supply or case, and also already set on a SSD and RAM. but I'm probably going to buy at mindfactory do you have any experience with the components in Ableton or Bitwig, or any other DAW?

https://store.nintendo.com it's HTTPS, so it must be safe

I'm from Germany

sooo after watching all the videos I finally decided to join the discussion, because I have this first world problem: my colony sims run too slow, my sound latency is too high, and I got a pinched nerve from waiting on my compiles in my IKEA Markus. I already know which chair to buy when the great sickness decides to make it available again, but I'm not set on a rig yet. rationally I should only base it's budget and featureset on it's capability to make me money (as in coding), but I also would like to reach Oxygen not Included endgame without 10x speed bringing it all down below 20FPS, and I like to mess around with hardware- and software-synthesizers and might replace my MOTU MicroBook II with something with a lot more channels to record, and ideally do that at 96kHz with a latency below 15ms, better below 10ms. now do know, everything modern would be better than what I experienced in recent years, as right now I am using a FX-8350 with 16GB DDR3 on a kinda defective board (which does 5GHz at ~1.5V, but not very ... stable) and not long before that a Xeon e5450 clocked to 3.7gHz with 8GB of "the most baller" RAM, which was actually better for music production if I remember correctly. both on Gigabyte boards, because my friends had good experience with those, bought used. The Xeon one I had to solder first, the FX one has a defective SATA controller and thus brings down the latency massively. or the drivers could be shitty, but I was not able to solve that. I build my GF a rig for homeoffice (being a MMORPG customer support rep) with a Ryzen 2600 on B450 and 16GB 2666/CL13 RAM and oh wonder, I got processor envy and wait for her to go sleep to game on her machine. I also liked Torvald's build, I just bought a silent base 801 for the new office/music room at my parents house in the country. mostly because of looks, to support "designed in Germany" and because I can invert it, I'm not so sure about build quality yet. the first one broke in transit. I'm also on the lookout for something modern a bit like my old and hefty chieftec case here in the city, any ideas where to look for that mid-naughties sheet-metal charme? it must be 15 years old by now, if not more. I felt a little bit too clumsy for the bequiet! one, while I have no inhibitions to put my 120+kg of weight on my old chieftec, at least the top. so all those things considered, or TLDR: ... I did a little project and should have a budget of about 1000€ for motherboard, CPU, RAM and SSD and I need a little multithreading for programming, low (memory?) latency for my DAW and high single-thread performance for simulating fun. We have a Gigabyte GTX1060/6GB OC and a Sapphire RX570/8GB Nitro, which should be fully sufficient for any usecase, and I think I'm going for a Transcend 220S M.2 NVMe SSD, mostly because it's 3D-TLC and does not come with a heatspreader, as those seem to come with most high-end mainboards. I thought about server motherboards and found the IO lacking for everyday use, so it looks like I need one of those "gaming" boards or one of the few designer/professional-varieties. I think the big question is, which ecosystem would be better for low latency music production? My "research", and comparisons on userbenchmark, seem to point to Intel usually having the lower memory latency, but I'm actually not sure if that translates to low audio latency. Preliminary I thought about buying the Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master (~270€) with either a 9100 (60-70€, to buy something better later, used, for a sensible price, when I have an otherwise known good system) or a 9600k (~200€), because that's the biggest in the budget with 32GB 3200/CL14 Trident Z of RAM (~250€) and that SSD (~140€) and a beefy aircooler (?€). But I read some really bad reviews about that board in the meantime, so I'm looking for experiences with my usecase(s). Any thoughts? They would be very much appreciated. I could settle for something TR4 if you got good experience with recording music on that platform ... Greetings, Philipp P.S: I just saw the workbench forum ... I'm sorry for the misplaced post