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Any builders here tried one of these? https://www.newegg.com/p/0VE-01P6-00...9SIB7ZVK4M7506 Supposedly it lowers temps a bit.

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Haven't tried it, but it does look interesting.

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I'm sure it works, but to me it's adding your eggs into a single basket, and also hindering potential performance at least somewhat.

Much smarter and similar in price would be to have a 1TB Gen4 drive like that for the OS (easier to replace from a backup in case of a driver failure or OS corruption), and then 2 TB or so according to needs one drive each for audio and samples. I would personally go Gen4 for the samples, but Gen3 is really enough for audio, unless there is no price benefit.

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I've been experimenting with this 4TB PCIe4 single-drive-for-everything idea for a few months now ---> no issues & no performance hit or bottlenecking as far as I can tell. It's all zippy fast. I made 3 partitions - OS/sessions/samples - to keep things organized. To roll back the OS, I restore just the OS partition from my Macrium Reflect images. It all looks & works like 3 drives, & it's a clean/simple/fast hardware setup for my build. As far as "all my eggs in 1 basket", well I keep 2 (or 3) backups of everything on externals just in case my studio blows up!:D

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This ^^^ plus various external drives of course. The 4TB drive occupies the PCIe 4.0 slot on my MB. I have two available PCIe 3 slots. I'm considering adding another 4TB stick, even though it'll top-out at 3.0 speeds.

This one?
https://www.newegg.com/samsung-4tb-9...82E16820147879
or this one?
https://www.newegg.com/western-digit...82E16820250244
Here's a review:
https://versus.com/en/samsung-990-pr...ack-sn850x-2tb
Thanks!

I'm currently using the WD & it's great!

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Interesting idea. I am in the process..FINALLY...of getting my parts list together to have a new system built and I've been looking at your specs as my model. Will any of these PCIe4's serve for the OS? I still think I'd prefer to have separate drives just because that's how I like to keep track of things. How many PCIe4 drives can be put in the system, usually? Right now I have all spinners HDs, a 1tb OS, a 1tb session drive. a 500g catch all drive which I download everything to first, a 1tb Sample/patch holder drive, and an external USB3 1tb drive for all my E-W libraries. In the new system I want to have an OS drive, a session drive, and then everything else on 1 or 2 PCIe4s. I want to keep the E-W libraries on their own drive, I think.



Should I be thinking about this differently? And what MOBO would you recommend? I think the i9 CPU you have is what I want as well.

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14th gen i9-14900K, i7-14700K, or i5-14600K.
https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i9...82E16819118462
Start with the CPU choice, then MB & RAM. Search Google & YouTube for "gaming" PC builds 2024. I'd get a MB with Thunderbolt 4, lots of fast RAM, and as much internal NVMe storage as possible. Pro Tools does NOT need to run on an expensive GPU. With Intel 14th gen CPUs & DDR5 RAM, you can skip the GPU entirely (!) and use integrated on-board graphics to drive up to 4 monitors. (Extreme gamers & pro video editors might still want a dedicated GPU.)

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Hi everybody,


its time for a new PC. The following configuration should handle medium to large Dolby Atmos sessions. It will be used almost exclusively for mixing.
Its been a long time since I have configured a PC my-self so I am hoping to get some opinions on the chosen components regarding

- performance
- longlivety (>5 years)
- cooling
- noise emission

Some components I have not a lot experience with (coolers, chassis, mainboard). Especially no up to date experience.
This is the configuration so far:

• • Chassis Fractal Design - Define 7 XL schwarz | schallgedämmt
  • CPU (processor)
    Intel Core i9-14900K, 8x 3.20GHz + 16x 2.20 GHz, 36MB L3-Cache
  • Mainboard
    MSI MEG Z790 Ace DDR5 | Intel Z790
  • Graphics card
    None at the moment!
  • Memory
    64GB DDR5-5600 Corsair Vengeance | 2x 32GB
• Data carrier
  • SSD (M.2)
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO
  • 2ND SSD (M.2)
    1TB Samsung 990 PRO
• More components
  • Power supply unit
    850W - Corsair RMe 2023
  • Sound card
    HD-Audio Onboard
• Cooling
  • CPU Cooler
    Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black
• Software
  • Operating system
    Windows 11 Pro 64 Bit
  
  

What do you think? Anything missing / overkill / could be better / should be better?

Thanks in advance for your help.


Best regards
Daniel

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Does that MB have Thunderbolt 4/USB 4? For that CPU/RAM build, you can skip the GPU (!) & spend that money on a bigger 4Tb internal NVMe drive and partition it.

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I would always keep the OS on it's own physical drive.

Like I said on GS, the build looks quite good, although upping RAM to a mid-level higher XMP one is something I would do.

I would also get a separate GPU myself if only to drive 3+ screens, but it doesn't need to be fancy.