I'm building a Windows 7 machine to be isolated from the net after it's all set up. It will run Sonar X1 and Mixbus. I will need to be able to mix in the box with good quality plug-ins. All this machine will ever be is a DAW. I just want to be sure I am not buying stupid crap that I don't need, or not enough power or speed to handle what I'm doing.
I ain't no genius about computers, so...
I have put together a Motherboard, cpu, memory and hard drive combination at Portatech.com that I think would work fine. But, like I said, what the hell do I know?
ASRock N68GS4-FX Motherboard, AMD FX 8300 CPU (8 core 3.8Ghz), 8 GB DDR3 -1600 memory and a SSD drive. Is that appropriate? Too much? Too little? This would run me about 350 bucks. Not sure if I'll reuse my case, PS, and etc yet, but that's just standard stuff.