Smyles_ wrote:

I've built several workstation/gaming rigs for myself and friends over the past few years so should definitely be able to help. I'd recommend you go for an AMD Ryzen system over intel as intel are being made a laughing stock currently. Also, why 24GB of RAM, the most I could see you needing is 16 going off system requirements for Ableton 10 (plus, 24GB is rather inefficient if it's not 2 or 4 sticks of ram total, the logical upgrade to this would be 32GB ie dual 16 gig sticks).

My initial recommendation without knowing your budget and I/O requirements for your music kit etc would be a ROG Zephyrus G14 (can't remember if that's their latest or not, will check tomorrow cause it's 3 am as I write ). Very safe bet that's an epic little machine that can run games well and has 120Hz display that will make the entire system feel faster. 60Hz in this day and age is really not a thing anymore on mid to high-tier systems unless it's a 4k touch display.

Most of your display connections and other I/O can be supplied via a USB type C dongle as their incredibly versatile.

Feel free to PM me if you want to talk budget etc, but the bottom line is that Ryzen is what you want and need!

The 14 screen is tad small, but the specs look good I've got a Sony 14" laptop which is touchscreen and weighs the same as a damp teabag and runs games but fails on the Ableton front ( 8gb of RAM )

I purchased 32GB of Ram for the desktop, 1 module was RMA'd as it was defunct. I sent it back and they refunded me for the lot! ( purchased as a kit ) being stuck with 24Gb instead of 32gb hasn't been a problem at all and i never bought another module to make it 32gb

I'll look into the Ryzen laptops and see what's available in the new and in the 2nd hand market.

stew 46 wrote:

I have bought mine for work and personal from tier1 on line .co.uk over the last 25 years all refurb and been amazing

I'll take a look, cheers for the heads up