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2017/11/23 13:31:15
macman70
Any thoughts on the following configuration, I will swap in SSDs and up the RAM to 16GB
I have been running my Sonar professional on an at least 5 year old acer i5 laptop, and seems to have been fine.
Would like to switch to a desktop again and was wondering thoughts on the processor in this desktop, details below.


7th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-7400 processor (6MB Cache, up to 3.50 GHz)
Operating System
Windows 10 Home 64bit English
Memoryi
8GB, 2400MHz, DDR4; up to 16GB (additional memory sold separately)
Hard Drive
1TB (64MB Cache) 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s
Video Cardi
NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 730 with 2GB GDDR3 graphics memory
Wireless
Dell Wireless 1707 Card 802.11bgn + Bluetooth 4.0
2017/11/23 13:37:22
TheMaartian
I'm running on an early 2012 Dell XPS 8500. I've had to replace the power supply and the video card (for Win10). I also upped my RAM to 16GB. Runs great. You should be fine with that config.
 
I would leave the spinner and add the SSD.
2017/11/23 13:46:27
macman70
Great idea I was also thinking to keep the spinner and add SDD, thanks for feedback!
2017/11/25 11:43:28
fireberd
I have a recent (this past summer) Dell Inspiron 15 5577 (7th gen i5) that came with a 256GB M.2 SSD.  Dell sells this as a "gaming" PC.   I bought it to use for on site recordings.  I used it and had some problems with dropouts, even after doing some tweaking and Latency Mon showing no problems.  I installed a second (conventional) SSD and installed a clean Win 10 on that and have it set as dual boot.  If I want to use the laptop for recording I boot into the clean Win 10 that has Sonar installed.  
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