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I will try to find a on-line shop that build it up from scratch for you…brands often have hidden limits as they have their own components that eventually block for further expansion. I think Kung Fu Fader would be the man to ask, he makes music and play games and have monster of a desktop.

In the mac world, their mac pro desktops are in between generations so it would be stupid to buy that now, but they run multiple platforms at the same time….( i know of some developers that uses mac to make microsoft os!?!) , imac could be an option but they are not to be trusted as a pro option and have limited expansion abilities(the mid 2011 editions are to packed to start with but U can get them custom made by mac if you order in mac-stor online, but that cost a bundle).

Remember to get a stand alone soundcard what ever you choose to buy, not usb 2.0 controlled, ok if usb 3.0 or firewire (rather 800 than 400)(intel(remember this when you choose brand or motherboard) they are now coming with its thunderbolt standard but options are still scars but some good hd screens are now aveilable with this….) and its own power-supply and some proper active studio monitors to go with that. I think raj could give you more info on soundcards, I have a t.c. electronic konnekt 24D(old) optical connected firewire 400 controlled which means it sets back my 800 connection to a 400 due to it have to stand first in the daisy chain….Use some time on this choice because there are many to choose from….

And another thing is sdd drive storage, its a rapid working storage used as a hd with no physical reading parts, and I will say that is a must to go with video editing.

Vidio editing you’ll want something like a nividia quatro. It has certain tech esspecialy designed for video editing where it renders on the actual GFX card it’s self taking a fuck load of stress off the rest of your system and speeds it up loads. you can get a software crack for other gfx cards what alow you to use the software that comes with quatro cards on other gfx cards … but it’s not ideal as it’s not optamised for this.

Almost forgot … what’s your price range?

First thing I do when we approach a custom build for a friend is to get a list of all the things they want it to be able to do as the uses often lock certain hardware options
The next stage is to find out which of those uses are the highest priority and what the price range is hoped to be

From there we go to research whats out there as the hardware market is pretty volatile and put together the list of options around the relevant price tag

My radio streaming tower is also a photo editing machine but will no longer play new games at max resolution though it does still play most of them {they just ain’t as pretty};
I have a pro videographer mate – want I should ask him what he is using for his editing machine? its a separate pc to the one he uses for everything else btw

Without all of the info above I would recommend a big processor and lots of memory for starters, a good graphics card, lots of fast HDDs and a high end soundcard At this point I would like to point out that a machine like this is likely to be pretty noisy without some fancy cooling devices – we have recently helped a pal rebuild a machine of similar specs and when its on there is no need to heat the room even in winter :laugh_at: and its not quiet; I am happy to do some poking around for you wrt system specs if you can give me some idea what software apart from windows7 you are wanting to run?

With regards to SSD … you’ll probably want this for loading the OS onto but for your storage you might be better off getting some 1TB Samsung Sata HD’s. Depending on how much it will all cost as Raj sais you’ll need min 2 HD probably 3 (one for windows/programs , one for music storage, one for gfx storage).

If you have SSD’s for storage disks then all it will mean is it can initialy load the sample/clip a bit faster this isn’t too important as once it’s loaded it’s in ur ram. Where as if you’re running programs off a dick there’s constant to a fro from the disk and ram so an SSD will give you a boost in program running speed here.

@General Lighting 447238 wrote:

I wasn’t planning on spending loads on it, maybe about £300-£400 but it looks like I will have to increase it a bit..

If I was going to build a machine purely for sound production, an entary level machine (that will do the job and not totaly flake out) I’d say the parts would cost around £400 – if you’re adding a good gfx card this will increase the price a little.

ssd now and earlier is two different things

All of this angst from users about drive slowdown comes as a result of the early SSD which didn’t support TRIM and/or idle garbage collection which was certainly a problem over the long haul.

have a look here on a the long term test;

Samsung 470 Series 256GB SSD – Long Term Test Results – Samsung 470 – Where We Started – Legit Reviews

(as you see in the conclusion is that os x does not support TRIM, that was back in 28th of may this year, on the latest update of os x ‘snow leopard’ (10.6.8) and the new os x lion(10.7) does support that, now you can get imacs and macbook pro custom made to come with only ssd. mac air is only issued with ssd)