Hi all, building a PC for a friend whose going to be using it for music production in his bedroom for the next 6-12 months before moving into a proper studio space so it needs to be up to the latter task when the time comes, even if that means by upgrading at a later date. It will need a firewire port for the audio interface. I would like to make it as quiet as possible also, but I have little experience of this requirement in selecting components...
CPU: Intel i7 930 £216 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/Intel...io-130W-Retail
CPU cooler: unsure, want something quiet! perhaps this? Prolimatech Megahalems Rev B £42 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Proli...-%28Fanless%29 plus a generic fan
Mobo: Asus P6X58D-E £150 (for now!)http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asus-...-SATA-RAID-ATX
RAM: 6GB (3x2GB) Corsair XMS3 (1600) CAS 9-9-9-24 £122 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/plus-6GB-%283x2GB%29-Corsair-XMS3-DDR3-PC3-12800-%281600%29-Non-ECC-Unbuffered-CAS-9-9-9-24-165V
PSU: 450W Corsair CMPSU-450HXUK, Modular £54 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/450W-...-year-Warranty Unsure on this component, I want reliable and quiet and not sure how much power he'll actually need seeing as GPUs are the main guzzlers these days and his is a low power one
GPU: 512MB XFX HD 5450 £37 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/512MB...-DL-DVI-I-HDMI chose this as its passively cool, hopefully it will run 2 monitors, can anyone confirm?
Case: Silverstone Precision PSO5B £41 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/Silve...SU-Best-Seller went for this because I like the look and it has "Vibration dampening mounts for hard drives" which I imagine would reduce noise but I am unaware of its real world performance in terms of keeping things quiet, open to suggestions
1st HDD: OCZ 60GB Vertex 2E SSD 2.5" SATA-II Read 285MB/s Write 275MB/s £130 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225415 Not sure if SSD is necessary but seems a great price for a great bit of kit
2nd HDD: 1.5TB Samsung HD154UI Spinpoint F2 £59 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/15TB-...ache-89-ms-NCQ is there a 7200rpm version of this?
Monitor: LG 21.5" W2246S-BF 16:9 Wide LCD Monitor 1920x1080 £115 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/196524 Only chose this cos its Hi-res, quite cheap and seems to have a thin bezel if he wants to add a 2nd one when he moves into the studio, but open to suggestions here if people know of any better (thinner bezels etc.)
Optical Drive: LG GH22NS40 22x DVD±R, 16xDVD±DL, DVD+RW £15 http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/LG-GH...M-inc-Software
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium (student offer) £30
Total: £1011
Might also include some of these to keep noise down:
AcoustiPack™ ULTIMATE
http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/pro...sories/ap-kits
and some of these: QUIETDRIVE - Scythe "Quiet Drive" Internal HDD Silencer for 3.5" HDD on 5.25" bay http://www.scan.co.uk/products/Scyth...HDD-on-525-bay
Any thoughts greatly appreciated!