Hi all,
I’m looking to buy or build a new PC and I will be running Cubase Pro 13 on it with quite a heavy amount of tracks and presets. Can anyone recommend me something which will cost around £700? No graphics card necessary as I already have one.
Thanks
Hi,
There are companies building specialised DAW PCs for years.
I would order this kind of PC from a proven company.
Hello
I’m in the process of building DAW PC and I can tell you that 700.00 BP or $1,000.00 US wont buy you a lot , for $1,000.00 - we are talking entry level machine ,you have to double you budget to get middle shelf PC , and triple for a good studio worthy PC ,go to neweeg.com and check components prices I think UK components prices should be close to US prices
I’m uk and recommend looking at SCAN computers. Even if you build yourself you aren’t going to get something that will deal with big projects at that price. I spent about £1800 a couple of years ago and I can push that to its limits. I would say mine was a mid price pc. At SCAN DAW PCs start at £830 but that may not do all you want it to.
Hiya mkok,
Thx for the reply. I’m interested in what specifications you got for the £1800 PC? Also, when you say push it to the limit, what exactly is being used? CPU, RAM?
Thanks
I’d think twice about high-end Intel CPUs at the moment.
I also recommend Scan.
If you plan to use sample libraries, increase your RAM and storage. If your instrument are cpu-intensive, get a higher powered cpu.
I got mine from CCL at the time as it’s close to me. I have an i9 but one from three years ago. If you look at CCL computers now they do an audio machine which is similar to the kind of spec mine was at the time for £1800. So effect wise it’s not bad. I can get in hundreds depending on what type and there is no problem with tracks. The build up of vst instruments can hit the cpu hard. I use impact soundworks shredage stratus guitar and that alone in kontact stretches the cpu.
I’ve been using SCAN for 15 years. No problems, great support and a good range of specs and prices that would all work well with Cubase 13.
This is not what you want to hear and I’m not bias, I run both but Cubase on the PC has been very unstable since 11. I really wouldn’t go down this road just based on my experience and all the similar issues I read on the forum. My Mac mini cost less than half my PC and it’s got to be at least 5 times better.
hm… not here.
Not here either. Runs very stable
Obviously intended as a general comment, like I said I run both and have done forever,
For me, Cubase 13 has been the most stable version, ever. I have other issues with it, but that’s another novel.
Top of the range Intel i9s from the past 18-24 months have a lot of reported issues. There’s at least one thread on this forum.
This was a discussion some time ago to help me decide on a new rig:
The PC I ended up with is still going strong and is ploughing through CB 13 on Windows 11 using a Focusrite 8i6. Rock solid and has never got close to maxing out for me.
Ye it needs some knolage to make it run like a F1 car with 13/14 cpu and z790 platform its not like the normal tweeking
My DAW is equipped with a Z790 motherboard and an i7 13700KF CPU. I have invested in high-performance PC5-52800 (6600) memory modules (64GB) and in two 2TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 Gen4 NVMe drives, both of which are capable of high speeds. The operating system in use is Windows 11. I utilise a considerable amount of signal processing, employing substantial plugins and the spectralayers with no discernible issues. For mixing work, I am able to manage sessions comprising 60 or 70 tracks, a combination of instrument and audio tracks. CPU load is minimal. The sole challenge arises from ASIO guard load due to certain plugins, particularly those that process the spatial aspect of a signal. However, when a session is structured correctly, I am able to maintain an ASIO load below 80%.
I have very close to the same computer as Robert and I agree with him regarding performance. The one time I started having problems was when I put the Asio Guard to high (I think it’s called high; Cubase isn’t open). When I put it back to normal, things worked properly again. I think third party plugins influence the performance…just an opinion; I don’t really know that much about it.
You will want minimum Intel 7th Gen CPU, 16 gigs of ram, Min 4 Terra bytes SSD for storage + 1 Terra Byte SSD for the Windows/IOS drive that will hold your software and VSTS plugins… That is about $1000 USD. Hope fully you have your own monitor for the computer…
If you go the route of the laptop $1500 USD should get you the min requirements… but not be as good as desktop for the same money.