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Here's a synopsis of a PC build pretty much everything is modular, you just plug in the cables and connect
The components together . This guy has decided not to put his build in a case . As I say the hardest part to building a PC is loading the software.
http://youtu.be/5FEIcx5Z-RM
P.s Use anti static earthing cable , and make sure your power is off while working on any computer build
But where do the pickups go?
How long you been building guitars now . Lol
Building a PC is dead simple, in a way it is like building a guitar kit, you get everything you need and everything fits in its own special area. As long as you have the essentials (case, power supply, motherboard, cpu, storage, graphics card if your motherboard / cpu has no graphics or want to game on it, monitor, OS etc.) then you are all set to go!
Lol no pickups
My two cents worth......
When you go shopping for the hardware to build your new PC, whatever you do buy the best quality hardware you can afford since bad quality hardware is only going to create lots of headaches for you when you go to do your troubleshooting to find out why your new PC is randomly Blue-Screening (usually right in the middle of that important recording project-and you've forgotten to save/backup all the hard work you've done), something that's happened to me in the past and caused me a lot of frustration.
Also you want a CPU that provides a decent amount of processing power, the Intel i5 and i7 multi-core CPUs are good, get one that runs at a clock frequency of at least 3Ghz or so, be careful with Overclocking because you gain processing power but you may wear out the CPU and other hardware faster, if you can afford a motherboard that supports a decently fast Bus Speed definitely buy it (my motherboard supports a Bus speed of up to just over 2Ghz), the Bus speed determines how fast your Ram runs (the faster the Ram runs, the faster the data can be read into and out of the Ram, helpful when working with audio samples), you don't necessarily need to use a high-end Gaming graphics card when building a PC for a Studio, I seem to remember reading somewhere that some Digital Audio Workstations would crash if certain high-end Gaming graphics cards were used, maybe that's an issue that's been fixed lately.
Also anyone looking for a cheap but awesome Intel based CPU for the LGA1150 socket, I'd recommend the Pentium Anniversary Edition G3258, I've had one for about a month and I love it to bits! it's a beast of a CPU, I have ASUS AI Suite III which DrNomis, allows me to safely overclock as far as it goes without crashing every 3 seconds but I back it off a bit to extend the life a bit. Paired with my Corsair H100i (uses water, not air to cool the CPU for better overclocking) I got it over 4ghz and it's nuts when you factor in the price....
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Originally Posted by keloooe
That's cool that you've been able to get your system to run at over 4Ghz, as long as it's stable you should be fine, I'm using a Gigabyte GAZ68XP-UD3 Motherboard in my current PC, I think it has overclocking settings in it's Bios, I should have a good read of the user manual.
I've also got a couple of old Mac G4 computers, I've managed to get an old version of ProTools running on one of them.
I've built dozens of PC's. It's not the first open air "case" I've seen. I liked that CPU cooler, it was Umm... Cool.
M/B temp only went up 3 deg after he overclocked it. I'd expect it would double under some high end graphics load.
Overall a pretty nice package if you don't live a hair shedding critter. I can just imagine getting home from work to see a fried pussy sitting on top of it.
I had to use my magic touch on one of my PC's on Sunday. I'd set up the PC next to the TV with Poxtell Go running, so I could watch the F1. ten minutes in the PC says Nay FEKU. Had to watch the GP on my main PC. then went back turned on the dead one, Award Bios 1 long Beep repeated. That should be CPU. So I wriggled the CPU(Intel Dual Core) cooler, pulled the two DDR2 memory Sims out swaped their slots, changed the Graphics card from a N9500-512 to an Asus G9500 1Mb. Power up and away we go.... :D The PC Maestro does it again....
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I've been looking at building a desktop for recording recently. Only ever bought complete systems before. Putting it all together seems easy enough and I've installed os before, but the world of pc parts is mind boggling!