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Old 01-17-2017, 09:22 PM   #13
7string
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I did two builds over Christmas vacation. Agonized over the parts selection. One i7-6700K and one i5-6600K with Z170 motherboards. Both turned out excellent. The biggest mistake was not going microATX on both of them. My ATX case and motherbord is huge and clunky. My sons microATX i5 gamer is packaged perfectly. The Fractal cases are really nice.
An i5-6600K with a Gigabyte gamer motherboard is more than enough to get some work done in Reaper. Really low prices lately.
My old AMD X4-965 from 2009 still runs Reaper perfectly with amp sims and EZdrummer and a bunch of other VST with Win10 even.
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