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Discussion Thread ๐Ÿ“š Saturday 23 August 2025 (aussie.zone)
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[โ€“] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hooray just ordered the bits for a new 'puter for a DAW.

Upgrading from an old 2600k lol. That kicked the bucket about a year ago so a good 12 yrs of service. Using a shitty slower (but newer-ish) one since it died. I miss that rig. It became very temperamental, suffered water damage from water cooling mishaps, and spilt wine on it accidentally a few times..

New one will be quick but it won't have the same battle scars or charm :(

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Fuck yes!!!!! What are you getting and does it have a million gigs of ram lol

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Eee 64gb of ram so look out kontakt! bit of a jump from the 16gb in the old one lol.

    Going for the 9700x. Don't need gfx thankfully. mb just entry level gigabyte eagle ice. Nothing crazy.

    Also have to get a new audio interface as the old RME one is legacy PCI and I think that kicked the bucket too :( Tempted to try and swap out a few caps and try a PCIe -> PCI adapter but honestly I have no idea what I'm doing there.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    9700x with 64gb is unstoppable lol

    You had an internal PCI? I've never seen one in the wild.

    The saffire claret is a really decent interface. Beats out the standard saffire by miles if you don't mind focusrite. But admittedly RME are absolute beasts.

    I'm the same with graphics card I think it's a super old 2070 but I don't game on PC so no great loss considering how expensive new cards are these days.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ooh that does look like a good interface. Heard good things about focusrite's drivers too.

    Yea it was an old RME 9632, so stable (and took a bit of the wine I spilt lol, kept working though). I will miss it if I can't give it life again.

    I'm starting to look at the Scarlett 4i4, SSL 2+ mkII or the MOTU M4. The MOTU does have pretty levels leds on the front heh. Bit of a step down from the RME but practicially probably doesn't matter.

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