Pc build for composer

[Superted]

Hello

 

I'm building a workstation computer, it will not be used for gaming, but for music production.

I have very little knowledge about computers, so I'm asking you guys here if you could possibly help me build a functional and stable computer.

I working a lot inside Cubase and have big orchestral templates that draw very big chunks of ram.

That's why I want to have 128GB of RAM.

Cpu speed is also quite important to run plugins, but RAM is the most important for me.

 

Here is a list over parts I picked out:

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/JQrTD3

 

Cpu: Intel Xeon E5-1650 V3 3.5GHz 6-Core OEM/Tray Processor

Cpu cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler

Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard

Memory: 2x Crucial 64GB (4 x 16GB) Registered DDR4-2133 Memory

Storage; 2x Samsung 850 Pro Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive

Video card: Asus GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card

Case: Corsair 300R ATX Mid Tower Case

Power supply: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 10 850W 80+ Platinum Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply

OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro - 64-bit (OEM) (64-bit)

 

The case and video card I already have, but since I don't play video games I don't mind having a bit outdated grapichs card.

But everything is up for switching out if it is necessary.

 

I've asked around a bit, but there are very mixed responses when it comes to having this much RAM on one computer. Some say you should have 2 computer, master and slave. Other say 128GB ram on one computer is going to be very unstable.

There are some who have this amount or ram and it's working fine.

This is quite confusing, and I need some input from people who know this stuff very well.

 

Do you think this build would work?

What would you done differently?

 

Thank you!

[JeffreyEagan]

The actual frick? What's your budget here?

[Prastupok]

I don't even use 128gb on my studio PC. You won't use it unless you're loading in more than 150 tracks into Protools with Ableton, Reason, and then some in the background.

 

That is gonna be overkill for music production unless it needs to be rigged to several boards and many effects loops, both sending and receiving, manual per track. Trust me, I do this for a living

[Ahaber]

I personally think that you don't need that much ram, but I would recommend that you get ecc (error correcting) ram for this. This seems extremely over the top and expensive to me as well.

[nj4ck]

so you're building a $4000 workstation for music production, did I get that right?

[Superted]

so you're building a $4000 workstation for music production, did I get that right?

Yes

[Prastupok]

Yes

 

Trust me... unless you have a contract to do it, you don't need ECC, and for personal use not NEARLY that much.

[nj4ck]

Yes

its music production dude, not 4K video editing. You could easily get away with a 4790K and 32GB of RAM. I don't know how big your templates are but 128GB is very hard to fill up with audio files.

[Superted]

I don't even use 128gb on my studio PC. You won't use it unless you're loading in more than 150 tracks into Protools with Ableton, Reason, and then some in the background.

 

That is gonna be overkill for music production unless it needs to be rigged to several boards and many effects loops, both sending and receiving, manual per track. Trust me, I do this for a living

 

Well, it's the entire orchestra (large modern) + hybrid stuff and sometimes synths.

I currently have a little over 1700GB of sample libraries, and want many of them ready to go when I work.

I just don't want to compromise when it comes to what kind of sound and size I want to write for.

But I understand that you are a professional and take your word for it

Some of the strings take over a gig per patch and almost always I layer diffrent libraries on top of eachother to create more realism and character.

[Prastupok]

Well, it's the entire orchestra (large modern) + hybrid stuff and sometimes synths.

I currently have a little over 1700GB of sample libraries, and want many of them ready to go when I work.

I just don't want to compromise when it comes to what kind of sound and size I want to write for.

But I understand that you are a professional and take your word for it

Some of the strings take over a gig per patch and almost always I layer diffrent libraries on top of eachother to create more realism and character.

 

Trust me here. You won't need that much for orchestras either. Audio is audio, what it is is irrelevent. The audio resolution and bitrate is what controls size. But those applications are very intelligent at loading and dumping from ram when needed. Promise

 

We have somewhere around 200TB of samples, all remote.

[Superted]

Trust me here. You won't need that much for orchestras either. Audio is audio, what it is is irrelevent. The audio resolution and bitrate is what controls size. But those applications are very intelligent at loading and dumping from ram when needed. Promise

 

We have somewhere around 200TB of samples, all remote.

Wow, 200TB of sample libraries!

Do you work at remote control maybe?

[Prastupok]

Wow, 200TB of sample libraries!

Do you work at remote control maybe?

 

I work at one of the big 3 labels, suffice it to say that.

[Superted]

I work at one of the big 3 labels, suffice it to say that.

Thank you so much for your input, I guess I will have to reconsider what to build

Have a nice day!

[Prastupok]

Thank you so much for your input, I guess I will have to reconsider what to build

Have a nice day!

 

I'll leave this here for you. Wrote this a few minutes ago. http://linustechtips.com/main/blog/338/entry-493-1-what-does-a-daw-really-need/

 

This is my experience. You will see some people argue about it, but this is my experience with the systems.