I decided to rummage thru the Cakewalk effects.
CA-2A asked for activation which I had to go to the old site and do an offline authorization.
Are there any others that I would have to activate?
It's the pricing that was the issue.
If I do another budget AMD build it will probably be an APU. I'm still using a 9800GT in my FX3600 system. I have a Geforce 210 somewhere but I can't seem to find it.
As for gaming I'm starting to replay games that came out during the XP/W7 era. I'm not too fond of newer games as many are reaching 100gb. Most games I've come across on forums often have a 1TB OS drive.
I would imagine those are more in demand than people buying boards.
I built my 9900k system for around $800 and I only used the previous drives. That included my nVidia 1660. This was during the Covid summer when prices were low.
How are MSI boards? I've only used Gigabyte, Asus, and AsRock. I think the last time I had an MSI board when AMD came out with 2 different sockets of their 1st 64 bit CPUs.
One could buy Spire, Sylenth, Serum presets along with sample packs and not dent that price.
I still haven't upgraded to EZD3. I guess it's time to use those kits in Komplete, Modo Drum, ect.
Add ons get expensive when they are separated by genres and styles.
Did you ever build an Athlon system? I damaged 2 boards trying to install a CPU cooler. I fried another board in assembly which was the ECS brand which I stopped buying. I built a P4 Prescott system and ruined that board because of a drop of sweat. Lucky for me I bought the parts from a local shop and Intel sent a board the next day and he let me build it in his shop. There use to be an onine place you bought components and they assembled and tested for $20.
I moved where there is no humidity and I don't have carpet. I've built all of my systems since the turn of the century and I still have this paranoia pressing that power button.
I guess there is potential of shorting out a system when blowing the dust out and the fans can create static charge of spnning too fast. I use an air compressor instead of those air cans.