first PC since 2004, excitement levels are through the roof!

[luke m8]

Hi guys

I have been reading this forum a lot whilst waiting for my custom build, and really like the friendly and quality feedback given here.

I haven’t bought a PC since 2004, as I had switched to Mac to use Logic after Apple bought out Emagic. I have now ordered what I consider to be a beastly machine (in all but GPU) for music. I need the build to smoothly run large projects (i am a heavy user of samples and drum breaks), rewiring of Reason with Ableton whilst having WAV editors etc running the background.

Here is what I went for:

Intel Core i7 Quad i7-6700 (3.4GHz)
ASUS Z170-P: ATX
16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB)
1GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 740 (all I need)
250GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD
1TB WD Blue WD10EZEX
CORSAIR VS-350
Corsair H80i GT Hydro
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME
CORSAIR SPEC-03 CASE
BENQ GL2250HM LED 21.5"

Any comments or suggestions welcome! I did hours of reading over a few late nights, but I am still a novice.

Very excited for this build, PCS have a great record and I patiently await the finished product. It should be here this week, but given the time of year I am not banking on it too much!

 

[Stephen M]

A WD Black 7200rpm would be a better HDD, fast and very reliable. I guess you have gone for 16GB RAM.

 

[luke m8]

oops! thank you, yes 16 gb ram: 16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB)

i got a good deal on the 1tb blue during black friday but will def consider a WD black for a 3rd larger drive

 

[ubuysa]

Welcome to the forums!

You need to contain your excitement level, I'm pretty sure that roof damage caused by elevated excitement levels is not covered by standard home insurance.

:whistling:

 

[luke m8]

Welcome to the forums!

You need to contain your excitement level, I'm pretty sure that roof damage caused by elevated excitement levels is not covered by standard home insurance.

:whistling:

thanks ubuysa I ought to get that covered, the build is in testing...

 

[ItsPhire]

Hope you enjoy it mate.