First thing is you don’t buy computers on Amazon unless you really understand what you are buying. Remember, Amazon specs are well, er, often less than hones. After all, fanless doesn’t mean silent, it means it generates heat convection cooling can manage, and that usually means low power, slow speed processing. Water cooling doesn’t mean silence either. My son has a gaming computer and while it looks pretty it’s noisy. Bigger fans, lower speed rotation is the key to lower noise, but I’d not factored in how noisy my graphics card would be, and it’s noisier than the cpu fan! You’ve also got to realise that audio computing means big storage requirements, both in RAM and drives. Two at least. Even a 500gb c drive will get full with each application you install nowadays being bigger and bigger. Only last week, I had to add another 4Gb drive for yet more samples. RAM wise, my 16Gb struggles now when you load a few sample packages. My drum needs as Dave mentioned, are actually a middle use instrument, but loading some of my latest native instrument stuff can take 30 seconds to load, and during that time, I have to wait. Once this happens a few times in a project, your available memory starts to shrink quickly. A good trick is to go to a computer shop and listen to various computers they have built for sale and see which are quietest. Find out what their cooling is that will give you a steer.
