Recent content by Matttt

Hello and thanks for the reply! Do you have any suggestions what components to upgrade to? I was looking at an AMD Rayzen 5 3600 with an ASRock B450M Pro4 Mobo and 8-16GB of RAM. PCParts is unsure about the combination of a lot of those parts with the case and the mobo bios. It also...

Hello! Hope you all are doing well. With your help, about 5 years ago, I built my first PC! I've upgraded it piecemeal over the years, but I'm at a point where I'd like to do a bit more of a substantial upgrade to it. I have a feeling the processor and motherboard are due for an upgrade, but I...

Thanks for the clairifiation on your comment! I wasn't sure if it was just an opinion or if you had a reason. You are correct, the drive appeared in BIOS and device manage, but not disk manager. HOWEVER! I was using the computer and suddenly it wanted to restart. Comes back on, disk is...

Thank you for a reply. Could you elaborate why you wouldn't use one? Seems like an odd comment. As I said in my OP, the drive doesn't show up under disk manager, only device manager.

Hello, Just finished up my first build and almost everything went very smoothly. I have a 120GB SSD that I am using for Windows and a few other programs, but I also installed a Western Digital Green 1TB HDD to use for storage. When accessing My Computer, I have the SSD, but no access to the...

Thank you for the replies! That's what I was thinking madmatt30, thanks for support! Martin1982 and James Mason - I had read that mixcraft does utilize multiple cores pretty efficiently, which is why I was leaning away from intel in my price range. I had looked at the i3-4170, but I had read...

As I had said, I'm not planning on overclocking. I would also like to stick with AMD as Intel is out of my price range. Good call on the upgrades MOBO Martin1982, but if I don't plan on overclocking, are the 8 power phases necessary? Madmatt30 - as I said, not looking into overclocking. If...

I'm in the throes of putting my first computer together and I just can't nail down the CPU. I've decided to go with AMD to keep costs down and I think I've narrowed it down to the 4350 or the 8350. I can get the 8350 bundled with the ASRock Extreme 3 R2.0 ($185) or the ASUS M5A97 for a bit more...

Lets give this a go: PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QmV9RB Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/QmV9RB/by_merchant/ CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($169.98 @ OutletPC) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler...

Excellent, thank you. I will replace the board I had in my build with your recommendation. Also, thanks for the heads up with the case! I will find another and post back with an updated parts list.

I've put together what I think should do for a PC for home studio recording, plus a bit of normal usage (word documents, perhaps netflix). This is my first build, but I did most of my research on CPU and have determined that my DAW (Mixcraft 6) can take advantage of all 8 cores, so I reasoned it...