Audio PC Spec

[Scott]

You can install Windows 7 on anything that will run. The difficulty is knowing what will work and what won't. It depends whether the manufacturers of the hardware have created compatible drivers.

For the most part the answer is likely yes, but there will be the odd limitation. The most dangerous aspect is the chipset, if you can't get decent drivers for it your system will be completely hamstrung.

With that all being said, installing Win7 on a modern system is a VERY bad idea. Win 10 should be able to do everything you need with no need to downgrade to an older OS.

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

Hi Folks just a query

I saved a quote based on Spydertracks recommendations, however when I checked my specs PC specialist advised not to install Windows 7 as its no longer supported and I may not be able to install correctly. They advised to buy Windows 10 and let them install it. So question is Will i be able to install Windows 7 on the following spec

Case
FRACTAL FOCUS G BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Six Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.2GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® STRIX B550-F GAMING (DDR4, USB 3.2, 6Gb/s) - ARGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
32GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2400MHz (2 x 16GB)
Graphics Card
2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 1030
1st Storage Drive
512GB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 450MB/W)
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
USB 3.0 EXTERNAL SD/MICRO SD CARD READER
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100x Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Firewire
2 Port IEEE 1394a Firewire PCI-E Card (2 x 6 pin)
Operating System
NO OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIRED
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
NO RECOVERY MEDIA REQUIRED
Office Software
FREE 30 Day Trial of Microsoft 365® (Operating System Required)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 12 to 15 working days
Welcome Book
PCSpecialist Welcome Book - United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland
Price: £954.00 including VAT and Delivery

Thanks for any response in advance
Pkev

As we advised, you don’t want to install windows 7 at all. Windows 7 has been end of life for over a year.

You want to upgrade your existing windows to 10 so that you can transfer it over. The links show you through each process.

 

[pkev]

Hi OK!

If i had a brain I'd be dangerous!! doh I should try that first obviously

Thanks again
Pkev

 

[Mashup47]

@pkev
IF you already have/own win 7 you do not need to pay £80 for win10 from PCS. You can still install win 7 on your new PC and then upgrade it to Win 10 for FREE. here is an up to date guide on how to upgrade from win 7 to win 10 :https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-upgrade-from-windows-7-to-windows-10.2364162/

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

@pkev
IF you already have/own win 7 you do not need to pay £80 for win10 from PCS. You can still install win 7 on your new PC and then upgrade it to Win 10 for FREE. here is an up to date guide on how to upgrade from win 7 to win 10 :https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/how-to-upgrade-from-windows-7-to-windows-10.2364162/

That’s a very backwards way of doing it though as once you’d upgraded you’d then have to clean install all over again.

Makes sense to upgrade in the old system and create digital license, then install win 10 on new system and sign in with ms account to apply the license.

 

[Mashup47]

That’s a very backwards way of doing it though as once you’d upgraded you’d then have to clean install all over again.

Makes sense to upgrade in the old system and create digital license, then install win 10 on new system and sign in with ms account to apply the license.

May seem a little Backwards and take a little bit extra time. But i think the saving's far out way the cost of buying Win10 considering Windows 11 is due for release this year.
oh you mean upgrade on old system first then move the harddrive to the new PC,, yea totally agree with you there.

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

oh you mean upgrade on old system first then move the harddrive to the new PC

No, just upgrade on the old machine, convert to digital license, then install 10 on the new machine and log in with Microsoft account attached with license.

 

[Mashup47]

Yea that's a better way of doing it.

 

[pkev]

Hi Just a quick query - I ordered a desktop PC on 19th June - As of today the status of the order is in pre-production for 19 days. Its been going up a day everyday for the past week or so I'm not clear now as to any timescales at all. I understand my order is in a Q, just that the Q appears to be getting longer!
Any ideas...anyone

Thx
Pkev

 

[rouchie]

Hi @pkev

The counter is just telling you how many working days you have been waiting and what stage your order is. The main decider in how long you will be waiting for is the Graphics card you selected, so for example the RTX 3080 queue is roughly a 100 days wait

If you put your spec up other posters might be able to give you an idea on queue times for other cards

 

[pkev]

Graphics card is 1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 710 - DVI, HDMI, VGA

Its not really a high spec machine

 

[Martinr36]

If you post the spec as described here, we'll be able to assist better as we may see something else holding it up

How to Post Your Specification to the Forum - Check this Spec

When creating a forum post looking to discuss a PC spec there's a really simple way to post the spec in question here. IF YOU HAVEN'T ORDERED ONE YET AND ARE LOOKING FOR ADVICE ON A BUILD follow this step. IF YOU HAVE ALREADY ORDERED AND ARE ASKED FOR SPECS follow the next post. Click the...

www.pcspecialist.co.uk

 

[pkev]

Case
FRACTAL FOCUS G BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 3500X Six Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.1GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME B450-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.1, 6Gb/s) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2400MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 710 - DVI, HDMI, VGA
1st Storage Drive
512GB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 450MB/W)
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
USB 3.0 EXTERNAL SD/MICRO SD CARD READER
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100x Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Firewire
2 Port IEEE 1394a Firewire PCI-E Card (2 x 6 pin)
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
Microsoft® Office Home & Student 2019 (1 Digital License)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 14 to 17 working days
Welcome Book
PCSpecialist Welcome Book - United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland
Logo Branding
PCSpecialist Logo
Price: £0.00 including VAT and Delivery

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

Case
FRACTAL FOCUS G BLACK GAMING CASE (Window)
Processor (CPU)
AMD Ryzen 5 3500X Six Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.1GHz/35MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard
ASUS® PRIME B450-PLUS (DDR4, USB 3.1, 6Gb/s) - RGB Ready!
Memory (RAM)
16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2400MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE 710 - DVI, HDMI, VGA
1st Storage Drive
512GB PCS 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 450MB/W)
1st Storage Drive
1TB SEAGATE BARRACUDA SATA-III 3.5" HDD, 6GB/s, 7200RPM, 64MB CACHE
DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM
Memory Card Reader
USB 3.0 EXTERNAL SD/MICRO SD CARD READER
Power Supply
CORSAIR 550W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET
Power Cable
1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead)
Processor Cooling
Corsair H100x Hydro Series High Performance CPU Cooler
Thermal Paste
STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING
Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)
Network Card
10/100/1000 GIGABIT LAN PORT
Wireless Network Card
WIRELESS INTEL® Wi-Fi 6 AX200 2,400Mbps/5GHz, 300Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD + BT 5.0
USB/Thunderbolt Options
MIN. 2 x USB 3.0 & 2 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL + MIN. 2 FRONT PORTS
Firewire
2 Port IEEE 1394a Firewire PCI-E Card (2 x 6 pin)
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence [KUK-00001]
Operating System Language
United Kingdom - English Language
Windows Recovery Media
Windows 10 Multi-Language Recovery Image - Unlimited Downloads from Online Account
Office Software
Microsoft® Office Home & Student 2019 (1 Digital License)
Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE
Browser
Microsoft® Edge (Windows 10 Only)
Warranty
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)
Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)
Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 14 to 17 working days
Welcome Book
PCSpecialist Welcome Book - United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland
Logo Branding
PCSpecialist Logo
Price: £0.00 including VAT and Delivery

Unfortunately the changes you’ve made are going to make this a pretty poor build for audio, B450 is awful with regards to audio work and would t be recommended at all.
Do you realise you’ve ordered a 2 year old system?

 

[pkev]

Hi there

Thanks for your reply spyder, I'm not really computer savvy, my last PC was an M2V Mobo with a socket AM2 i think, that PC lasted me for maybe 15+ years. The reason i went to PC specialist was because i would have thought the builds offered would be upto date.
The other point is, I have limited funds and fortunately I don't have to depend on PC for all my audio. I need a decent basic general workstation. Anyway what i can do now that ive bought the thing is to live with it for a while then if needs must i can change it.
I need to stick with some kind of build within my budget as I dont have a spare £1200 - £4000. My wife isn't that generous!!

Thanks
Pkev

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

Hi there

Thanks for your reply spyder, I'm not really computer savvy, my last PC was an M2V Mobo with a socket AM2 i think, that PC lasted me for maybe 15+ years. The reason i went to PC specialist was because i would have thought the builds offered would be upto date.
The other point is, I have limited funds and fortunately I don't have to depend on PC for all my audio. I need a decent basic general workstation. Anyway what i can do now that ive bought the thing is to live with it for a while then if needs must i can change it.
I need to stick with some kind of build within my budget as I dont have a spare £1200 - £4000. My wife isn't that generous!!

Thanks
Pkev

Unfortunately the changes you've made means that you can't upgrade it, that's kind of the point.

Have you actually received it already or is it in the queue?

 

[pkev]

Hi it's in the Q 20 Days now in pre-production

 

[BlessedSquirrel]

Hi it's in the Q 20 Days now in pre-production

You can still make amendments without affecting your place in the queue. I would strongly recommend getting so advice on something more suitable.

 

[pkev]

Any suggestions welcome!, I do need to keep Windows 10 and Microsoft Office and also firewire for my presonus FP10 anything else I would consider

Thanks in advance of any suggestions
Pkev

 

[Scott]

What was wrong with the system specified previously? Was it too expensive? You seemed pretty happy with it but then reduced a lot of the main parts to the point of no return.