[Rwp] Please Help me compare these specs

[Scott Chesworth]

My knowledge isn't current enough and I'm in the wrong part of the
world to comment price-wise, but two thoughts spring to mind. A 1tb
SSD for your OS drive is almost definitely overkill. Seeing as you'd
likely be keeping sample libraries, sessions and the like on separate
drives and even the messiest installation of Win 7 is under 30 GB,
what's the rest for? That said, on the cheaper model, the OS drive
being a standard HD makes no sense either. Having switched a few
systems over to SSD here, I can tell you that the difference in boot
times and overall responsiveness is like night and day, a bigger
difference than I've seen from any other upgrade.

Hth in some way

Scott

On 6/15/15, Jes via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
> Guys, I have narrowed things down to two configurations from studiocat
> in their project studio daw line. I need help understanding the specs,
> as I want to get the most bang for my buck but don't want to break the
> bank.
>
> Config 1:
>  - Case: Silent Mid Tower
>  - Power-Supply: 500w quiet
>  - Haswell CPU: 4790k @ 4.4GHz (8 th..
>  - RAM: 32GB DDR3/1600
>  - OS drive: 1TB SSD
>  - Audio drive: 2TB HD
>  - Samples drive 1: 1TB HD
>  - Samples drive 2: 2TB HD
>  - Burner: 24x DVD/RW
>  - Video: HD4600
>  - Add TI chipset Firewire: For all others. Will work with my Motu
> Audio Express 6X6 firewire/USB audio interface.
> Operating System: Windows7 home premium 64-bit.
> Cost: $2,164.00
>
> Config 2:
>  - Case: Mid Tower
>  - Power-Supply: 500w quiet
>  - Haswell CPU: 4690k @ 3.9GHz (4 th..
>  - RAM: 16GB DDR3/1600
>  - OS drive: 500GB HD
>  - Audio drive: 500GB HD
>  - Samples drive 1: 1TB HD
>  - Samples drive 2: 1TB HD
>  - Burner: 24x DVD/RW
>  - Add 2nd Burner: 24x DVD/RW
>  - Video: HD4600
>  - Add TI chipset Firewire: For all others
> Operating System: Windows7 64-bit home premium.
>
> Cost: $1,434.00
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