sharonzaz wrote:
5K gets you just over entry level today, and im talking decent parts
not the cheapest.
for recordings and some VST, considering how you would (like everyone else)
wanna avoid maxing your PC very early into the production I would recommend
atleast an i5, 2 HD's and 8 gig ram running a 64 bit system.
+1. 8GB's RAM is not essential, but it would give the system a lot of headroom, especially using VST's. It's so cheap that it's worth doing anyways. I think you will need to spend about R8k to be truly happy with a setup that will last for a while - and that R8k is just for motherboard, CPU, RAM and harddrives.
(Remember too that a lot of great records were made ten years ago on systems that would seem like stone-age machines today, but with the increased use of VST's, the more RAM, the better).
CPU clock speed isn't as important as the amount of cores. I would much rather go for a lower speed quad core than a higher speed dual core. And with most i7's, you get hyperthreading which gives you another 4 virtual cores, taking the total to "8" cores.
