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  1. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production/gaming PC

    Thank you! Changing it all around and making some upgrades has been my little project over lockdown and I'm really happy with it now. 😁
  2. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production/gaming PC

    Thank you, already in use though for backlight LEDs and cable to charge keyboard ☹️
  3. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production/gaming PC

    Cool, thank you! I'll take a look at iCue. I'll just keep an eye on it when the weather gets hotter too, see if it happens again. Perhaps it won't be an issue going forwards anyway if they need to embed properly as you say. My thinking on the hub was just connecting things like mouse...
  4. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production/gaming PC

    Just thought I'd update as I've had this a couple of weeks. System is running flawlessly, great performance for music production and also gaming at 1440p and on a Rift S headset. Temps seem reasonable too. Overall very quiet system, there was a slightly irritating noise I heard on a busy music...
  5. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production/gaming PC

    Nice, I need to get some good hifi headphones really for general listening too. That will have to wait for now though after this expense. To be fair I do like these for most general listening anyway. Yes I love the keyboard! Great to play and just being able to flick between all the NI tools at...
  6. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production/gaming PC

    Yes that was a nice surprise as my previous system had it on the top. I prefer it this way.
  7. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production/gaming PC

    Cheers, I have been giving it some love over Lockdown for sure. :LOL: The SRH1840's are fantastic aren't they, such a balanced clear sound. My only gripe is that I have a shaved head and after long periods having the two narrow bars rest on it they dig in on top a touch. Not too much bother...
  8. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production/gaming PC

    Define R7 case i9-9900K H115i cooler 2070 Super 32GB Ram (3000MHz) 1TB SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2, PCIe NVMe 1TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5" SSD CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS Very impressed with the quality of the build, cable management and everything seems excellent. I should point...
  9. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production / gaming rig

    "The earlier concerns about a limited number of incompatibilities have so far not grown and we’re aware that AMD have been working hard to help smooth these out". I don't believe anyone here mentioned pairing with a particular ram speed either so I could have easily just switched to AMD and...
  10. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production / gaming rig

    This is a pretty up to date article that covers the ram thing www.scanproaudio.info/tag/dawbench/. I know they got around this and ultimately testing did favour AMD but I really don't want to have to be worrying about that for a performance increase that I'm not likely to notice in my real world...
  11. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production / gaming rig

    I read something about memory speed needing to be tuned to sort out the latency issues and I know of people that have had issues with 3900 builds and compatibility running stuff. Which AMD processor would you recommend and why do you believe the issues have been resolved? I'm incredibly...
  12. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production / gaming rig

    Driver issues with certain hardware and issues running on low buffer settings from what I have heard. Perhaps it has been fixed, I don't know. Certainly feedback from this year though so it's not too old. Just not sure I want to risk it, and if it has been fixed now but later certain...
  13. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production / gaming rig

    OK I took your call on the drive in the end as it didn't make a huge price different considering I'll have extra storage on it too. So here's what I have now: Case FRACTAL DEFINE 7 BLACK QUIET MID-TOWER CASE Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i9 Eight Core Processor i9-9900K (3.6GHz) 16MB Cache...
  14. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production / gaming rig

    Thank you. Unfortunately though I have heard reports of incompatibility issues with the AMD processors in music production applications and for me that is very concerning and not something I really want to risk. I'm happy with the performance of the Samsung Evo's, I work with both VST heavy...
  15. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production / gaming rig

    As I'm kind of desperate to get the new system sorted I've gone ahead and ordered. I did tweak a couple of things, quiet fans on the cooler, second 1tb solid state drive even though I'm bringing some other drives in from my old PC, changed to 2 sticks of 16GB Ram as I read in a few places 2...
  16. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New music production / gaming rig

    Hey all, my old PC is having various issues with USB connectivity, and needing several attempts to get it to boot up. Guessing it's the motherboard (can't imagine PSU as it runs fine most of the time even in game or working on a big music project). I could just get a new motherboard and...
  17. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New X99 build is here

    My new PC has arrived and I've fit the first of my 2 x 980's (just waiting for sale of my last pc to pay for the second). PC: HAF-X, ASUS X99-S, i7-5930K, H100i, 16GB Kingston Hyper-X Predator DDR4 3000MHz, 250GB Samsung 840 EVO, 2TB Caviar Black, MSI GTX 980 (adding a second soon). Monitor...
  18. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST 2 x GTX 980 or 3 x GTX 970

    Which of these would be the best SLI setup? I can't make my mind up on this. It's to run at 1440p with all the bells and whistles and be future proof for a long while (hopefully). It's to go in my new X99 build: Case COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7...
  19. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST New X99 build for music production and gaming

    No GPU at present as I'm waiting to see if 8GB 970/980's appear soon. I'll be looking to run 3 of these in SLI to power a triple monitor set-up. May just order the PC and add these in myself on release. Case COOLERMASTER HAF-X FULL TOWER GAMING CASE Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Six Core...
  20. garamo

    PCSPECIALIST, PCSPECIALIST Yet another Vortex IV but this time with a HD 8970m

    I already have a pretty fast desktop (also from PC Specialist) but I needed to replace my ancient work laptop and decided I'd like something that I can also run my DAWs with and easily plug into the TV in the lounge or to take round friends houses and enjoy my game library wherever I please...
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