Question Trying to upgrade PC for Music Production

[angwww]

Hi everyone
i have a i5 2400, 8gb ram, 500gb SSD with 500gb HDD, 760 GTX, 750w b2 evga PSU

I want to upgrade my pc for Music Production i already have a 750w PSU and case but I'm on a small budget
I was looking into motherboard CPU RAM kits for xeon on Aliexpress and they had very good prices but FL studio and daw production apparently need good single core performance like games, but xeon is different because it doesnt really have good single core performance.

i have 100$ maybe 150$ if im really really trying.

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256...652892!sh!US!4363171484!&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

2680v4 16gb ram 120

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256...677237!sh!US!4363171484!&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa

2682v4 16gb ram 107


from an i5 2400 to 2680v4 it should still be an upgrade
is there anything else good for Music Production / DAW at this price point?

i checked cpu benchmarks, it has nice scores but its maybe the single thread performance of about 2000, thats apparently not super amazing for DAW
might still be okay, but is like a i7 with lower overall benchmark but better single thread performance better?

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+E5-2682+v4+@+2.50GHz&id=3081

i5 2400, 8gb ram, 500gb SSD with 500gb HDD, 760 GTX, 750w b2 evga PSU

Thankyou very much for reading

 

[lvt]

500GB HDD doesn't seem right for music production, it should be something like 2TB or 4TB with another HDD of the same capacity for automatic backup.

 

[angwww]

500GB HDD doesn't seem right for music production, it should be something like 2TB or 4TB with another HDD of the same capacity for automatic backup.

I'll try to upgrade that next I'm running out of space right now for sure, right now I'm struggling a bit to even finish the project I have due to the cpu

 

[lvt]

According to this page, FL Studio should run fine on your current system.

https://medium.com/@raheemahmad1/fl-studio-system-requirements-2024-dae7e44198f7

 

[Anomaly_76]

Your money would be best spent on storage. Audacity is an excellent (and free) multi-track music recorder software interfce with a lot of features and effects that can export to MP3. And an i5-2400 is plenty for it, I know someone running it on an i3-2100.

I honestly wouldn't waste time on anything from AliExpress. You can buy used components and sometimes entire platforms for very reasonable prices if you know where to look, and you can get a brand-new WD Blue SN570 1TB for $100 or less most of the time.