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should i focus more on CPU or on RAM for music production, windows running system and mostly with Ableton?
 
depends on the person, but the most important things imo are ram processor hd space
I would reccommend atleast 8gb ram an i5 or above and atleast 1tb of hd and a ncie vid card wouldn't hurt

I had my computer built with all the parts i want for music production and video editing.
You want something not just to handle your workload today but something that will allow you to grow and still
handle whatever you throw at it.
I do a lot of traileresque type music so my sessions can get up to about 12-13gb or more if i want

i put my OS on a drive (120gb ssd) by itself so that if anything was to go wrong for any reason, i can just whipe that hd clean and reinstall the OS with no loss.
While my other drive (1tb) is for program installations and the other drive (2tb) is for backup storage purposes.

comp specs
Just yesterday i had a session that was 14gb and it ran like a charm at 96k
I''m going to eventually get 32gb of ram

CPU: Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge 3.4 GHZ


CPU COOLER: Corsair H60 Liquid CPU Cooler


MOTHERBOARD: Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD4-B3


MEMORY: G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR3 1600


POWER SUPPLY: SeaSonic X Series X650 Gold 650W SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS GOLD Certified Modular Power Supply


CASE: Antec Three Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower


VIDEO CARD: MSI Cyclone Radeon HD 6850 1GB


SOUND CARD: Firestudio Project


HARD DRIVE 1: Lite-On SATA III 120 GB SSD


HARD DRIVE 2: Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB 5400 RPM


HARD DRIVE 3: Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200 RPM


OPTICAL DRIVE 1: LG 10X Blu-ray Burner


OPTICAL DRIVE 2: LG 22x DVD-RW


OS: Microsoft Windows 7 pro
 
Focus about this order if possible: power-supply, motherboard, CPU, RAM, SSD, peripherals.
Why? PSU = energy, might be good or bad energy and may do bad things to your PC parts about higher ripple and 80+ Gold means less heat only... but sure Titanium if you can..
Motherboard: connections, stability, cooling things like VRM dissipation, way it generates energy about socket, RAMs, support;
CPU: cores, GHz, cache memory, nm process will lead to better flow management. At least 6 cores/12 threads, I recommend Intel Core i5 at least;
RAM: dissipation options about G.Skill, Patriot, Kingston, Crucial I like, at least 16 GB nowadays, but check timings too about latency, they matter like 7-7-7-21 (just an example);
SSD: WD Red supports entirely RAID-0/RAID-1 and is great; you should prefer RAID-1 because if one unit is faulty you won't lost your projects;
Good case and cooler for good air flow & cooler should be low-profile to not mess up your motherboard about being heavy, but copper styled one...
Cases: larger better, but mini-ATX might solve the issue, I like one called Cube, but I don't remember the brand, might be CoolerMaster, it's really a cube.
I also would add one NIC (not so expensive, about Intel with dissipation), might free up CPU usage about ethernet signal flows.
Good luck for those needing a nice PC, I prefer PC, but Mac rocks, laptop rocks.
 
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