Ane Atsuko Sobreira Minato

On 1/8/2020 at 7:58 PM, azslow3 said:

Intel is "stuck" with current technology for a while. Till your friend is going to use advantages of current top mobos immediately, I do not think it is wise to  make investment into the "future" (the next generation can bring new USB/thunderbolt standards and current trend is making all new incompatible with "old"). There is some "basic" level of bios tuning which is nice to have for audio PC and exists on gaming boards (but not on "office" boards). Top end adds last percents in overclocking, multiple graphic cards compatibilities, third M2 (while even the second is already limited on 24 lines CPUs, so all current except X and server CPUs) and fancy light (with build-in LEDs and extenders). F.e. that can be effectively useless for a system with one M2, one graphic card and not overclocked (btw overclocking above automatic turbo mode is not really working on normal i9, it start consume above 200W under specific load just with default settings...).

I have considered ~€200 Z390 MSI Mobo, i9 and middle range M2 (Evo Plus). I am happy so far, but I have not managed to tune it down to some (rumored?) system latency numbers. It works fine without any tuning under low load, with lowest settings my audio interfaces support (48 samples by 48kHz, 3.1ms RTL). In case of big real-time load and top end latency requirements (under 2ms) more effort should be made to select exact MoBo, Memory and all relevant settings. In such case simpler solution is contact Studiocat (Jim) and get proved as working for the purpose complete system.

I do not need extra internal disk for the moment, but I will try to avoid any HDD inside my home computer in the future. I mean I prefer 3x 2TB SSD instead of one 6TB HDD, when possible. Price difference still exists, but it is no longer factor 10. SSD is silent, HDD is not.

Do not forget about powerful while silent PSU and cooling. After many "iterations" (at work), I have considered PSU+Cooling approximately as expensive as MoBo+RAM for home.

Hi, Azslow,

he left the HDD idea and he's going to buy 2 SSDs (m2).

Thanks for all the information!

Umu2002, 

I think you didn't read it correctly.  I'm not spending my friends money! He chose the pieces, I'm just helping him.  You don't know what are his future plans for his studio so, it'd be better be more polite with your comments.  Thanks anyway.

14 hours ago, BRainbow said:

I use an Asrock Z390 Taichi which works great with an Intel Core i9-9900K.  It has Thunderbolt and 3 M.2 slots.  A great combo and the MOBO is $229. vs $289., at least on Amazon.

Thanks, BRock, this is going to be a very good competitor for the Asus Rog.

17 hours ago, mettelus said:

+1, I have the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X HERO (WI-FI) (previous version) in this machine with an i7-8700K. Back then it was pretty much splitting hairs on performance above a certain level, so deciding was based more on the feature set on the board. You can easily disable hardware without issues, but depending on what he will be doing, an i9/64GB of RAM could easily be overkill for audio work. You have to be pulling some fairly hard-core VST(i)s to require that, which is hard to imagine with someone starting out (it would save money initially to only get a pair of 16GB (32GB total) and see if he actually uses it - then could add another pair later). Audio is not overly stressful to a system, but video work and gaming would be (why MB manufacturers to not target the audio market). Also, for either of those he will want to get a dedicated graphics card (but shouldn't need it for audio only).

Thanks, Mettelus.  I think it will be his choice, good to know that you aprove this board.

Hi, guys,

I'm helping a friend to build a computer to his first homestudio.  He wants a Intel I9, motherboard with chipset Z390, 64GB RAM, 1SSD and 1HD, to start.  We found the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XI HERO (WI-FI) has all he needs but the fact that it's focused to gamers, make us wonder if there's a similar more focused for audio...  Can you give some advices?

Thanks and happy new year!

My condolences for you and your family.

Thanks, Panu!!  

Thanks!!

Thanks, I just got mine.

I like to use iZotope Insight 2.  It's very complete!

6 minutes ago, msmcleod said:

Are you running CbB and BandLab Assistant under different users (e.g. one as a normal user, one as administrator) ?

I'm the only user.  But, oddly, without doing anything, I've just opened  CbB and it's ok!! Thanks, anyway.

28 minutes ago, Chuck E Baby said:

Im not sure if this still works or not but I do seem to remember someone suggesting to - Try logging out and then back in again of the Bandlab Assistant.

Hi, Chuck, I already tried this with no sucess...

Thanks!

Last week, I installed CbB on my notebook without issues, now, trying to install it on my PC is being a PITA...  After several attempts to download and install, and the Assistant stucking in the install process, I decided to run the exe directly from the installation folder.  The process seemed to be fine but I end up in Demo Mode.

The message error asks for activation via BandLab Assistant but this option doesn't exist.  Checking for updates is not a solution because I'm already updated. 

Is there anyone that can help me?

Thanks!

I also want my count posts....  😜