I want to be able to make larger patches as at the moment it really struggles when I get close to being able to make a full track in Rack. This is the spec I am looking at for the desktop:
AMD Ryzen 7 2600 (think this is labelled incorrectly and is a Ryzen 5)
Memory (RAM)
8GB RAM (will add more of this later on)
SSD 240GB
Hard drive capacity 1TB
Graphics card GeForce GTX 1660
Will I see much of a performance difference with this?
As others have said: Get 16GB of RAM on a new machine today. Apart from that you should read my summary here:
Bottom line: If it’s a laptop good cooling is critical, but I see you’re going for a desktop, good. A good graphics card is also important, and then high single-core CPU performance. Good luck!
I’m struggling to decide on graphics cards, how to define a good graphics card? I’m looking at Radeon RX 570 but maybe 550 would be sufficient or do I need better then these?? I don’t do any gaming so rack is the only thing I need it for really and don’t want to spend too much on it.
I build my own desktop machines. Current box includes the following specs:
AMD FX6300 6-core CPU 3.5 GHz (at performance setting)
16G memory
fast hard disk
nVidia GeForce GT710
ALSA/JACK sound system (M-Audio Delta 66)
More importantly, everything on my machine has been selected for quiet performance. The CPU cooler is a quiet model, as is the power supply, and the video card is fanless. The case is an old Antec Sonata II, very nice for quiet running.
I can run some fairly sizeable patches, but too many CPU-eaters will give it some grief. Since you’re running Linux you can tune your system for optimal performance by using a low-latency and/or rt-enabled kernel, setting your device and i/o priorities, disabling unnecessary services, etc. FWIW I run VCV Rack with rt priority enabled, for a single core, with a 15 Hz frame rate.
Hello,
I just build a desktop with the following specs:
AMD Ryzen 2700x,
MSI motherboard B450,
16 GB RAM 3200mhz,
SSD 250 M2 pcie 3x,
HDD 1TO 7200,
AMD rx570,
Bequite ! Fans and ventirad.
I’m using VCV as a DAW with Digitakt/Overbridge as a sound card/sequencer/drum machine. I Also use Reaktor 6 in VCV Host.
Everything is running super fine at 48000hrz/128 buffer.