Hi guys, I’m in a process of building a new custom PC intended for music production.
My main dilemma at the moment is if getting Ryzen 9 3900X is an overkill?
Like everyone here, I use Kontakt libraries and other CPU hungry plugins, and I’m debating if I should go for the top or settle for “2nd best” with Ryzen 7 3800X?
Just to throw in some quick comparison specs for both:
But from that comparison table, it seems Ryzen 9 3900X is the most powerful between both and has much more ram ! so i think the choice should be easy ! or there is something i’m missing about ryzen 7 ? for me i will go for ryzen 9 eyes closed ^^ ! i think for music production the most important specs to look at are RAM, processor and GPU !
I would be temped to go for the 9 3900x - it’s got more physical cores (12) virtually 24 threads.
One think to check is your motherboard is not going to bottleneck your cpu or gpu. Get the best you can afford - if you can get newer chipsets that support PCIe 4.0 and DDR4 - AMD tend to rely on fast memory to reduce latency.
Kontakt wise ideally you want fast storage - if you can stretch to it SSDs or maybe hybrid drives it will help or a fast traditional HD. Get plenty of memory as well.
A multithreaded cpu will really be good good for plugins that are cpu hungry like synths and reverbs and it’ll mean you can run more tracks.
I helped a friend build a pc recently for 3d graphics and the ryzen are definitely more bang for buck than intel at the moment. Do your research and get components that work well together ( for example some motherboards will only support upto certain clock speeds for memory etc). Are you thinking of over clocking - if you do make sure you have a good power supply and cooling.
Getting a better cpu build components will future proof you to some degree as well.
I already have 1x m.2 SSD and 2x SATA SSD drives that help with library load speed A LOT. So I’m kind of set when it comes to storage, as I’ll transfer that to the new PC.
For the money the gigabyte board is really good - think you’d have to fork out quite a bit more to get better performance - really like gigabyte boards - well made and usually have plenty of features - only negative is it just has a hdmi but other than that as long as it has enough PCIe slots etc for you it should be good.
That’s what I thought, it should be fine for some basic overclocking but even then, I don’t think I’ll really have to overclock 12 cores for the purpose of music making. At least I hope I won’t have to!
think you’d have to fork out quite a bit more to get better performance
Do you have any suggestions, which one would be a better pick, performance-wise?
Aorus extreme but its really expensive and I’m not sure than you would really gain that much - it should have thunderbolt for this price as well which it doesn’t.
If you want lots of usbs and good connectivity then it might be worth looking at Asus ROG Crosshair 8 Hero WiFi
I think though the Aorus pro should be good unless you need more connectivity.
