Had problems sourcing the parts, ended up with a Define Mini C and some Corsair 3000mhz ram - Thank you for the advice, Abula! The motherboard was flexing a bit and was slightly bent from the start, so much for Ultra Durable... I wrongly installed the mugen backplate, so that made things worse, but ...

I'd retest temperatures with no overclocking first of all, then check for dust, bad fans, reversed airflow, and then the actual seating of the cooler. I know of a system that ran with the stock intel cooler, but one of the 4 pins holding it in place was broken and it didn't really hold it tight enou...

Internet says you need an i9/dual xeon/threadripper setup, because you probably need it to be realtime. I've seen this video on linustechtips, he's got the big/powerful/noisy server in the next room with some thunderbolt gizmo that allows the monitor+io to be near him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Case: Fractal R5 PSU: Seasonic Focus+, 80+ Gold, 550W CPU cooler: Scythe Mugen 5 Rev.B CPU: i5 7600 Mobo: Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H Ram: Corsair 16GB 2400MHz CL14 Storage: Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SATA-III All just under USD $1000, shipping included, thanks to some discounts on various components, includin...

I think the case is BH-02B-B-B (or something very similar to it), this is the closest link I could find, mine has purple plastics instead and no filter, but the same layout, all the rage in 2005: https://www.mindfactory.de/product_info.php/Chieftec-Uni-BH-02B-B-B-Midi-Tower-ohne-Netzteil-schwarz_139...

Audio recording needs a lot of fast I/O when you're recording multiple things at the same time, and needs a lot of CPU power when you're adding effects live, while recording. For a single (probably mono) track with no live effects, that's not a problem for any pc, even your smartphone could do it, i...

Hello CA_Steve! Case prices, converted to USD, tried to select most talked-about models: https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/25950431/ Some are more expensive than the motherboards. I can get a good used case for $30-$35, maybe less, but replacing the fans will add to that. I'm in Romania, the major e-taile...

Greetings, silence lovers! I've been visiting your website for a few years, but I never got around to building a new PC, until now. Warning, wall of text follows, here's the tl;dr version: 1) is there any motherboard in particular that has better fan/temperature control and reliability than others, ...