The 98% Silent PC - DAW PC build guide for Music Production & Quietness

Did anyone notice me pulling a VERGE and installing the RAM in the wrong slots during RAM section? 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ HAHA, can't believe it! Well, that was the first thing I changed before booting as you can see from the B-Roll in the end :)

Really good video, thanks

loling at the SponsorBlock edits on this

Great build for music producers. I would've upgraded the GPU for video editing ang gaming just in case.

As an Audio engineer of 17 years and gamer, i appreciate this video.

Details like "a faster single thread for lower latency operations..." i have not heard from any other YTer and is good to get confirmation on.

Somethings ive had to be aware of for my build is a mobo with two ethernet ports. One for internet and another for Dante.

Also perhaps running 140mm fans as they run slower to push the same amount of air and resonate at a lower frequency?

I would certainly appreciate if you were to do an update to this as newer CPU technology comes out.

Hard to keep up with team red and blue throwing punches.

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You are Air Cooling in a Case that have zero (0) % Intake CFM Coeficient... 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️👎

I’m a music producer and build CPU’s for studio owners and friends and the industry’ and working with plugins, VST’s and anything RAM heavy’ most important’ people always come to me with laptops running cracked FL software / 4gbs ram 😂😂

I dont mind a lil fans, as long as it cant be heard when i record or stream or w.e but inprefer it cooler and push rhe limits then a quite computer

Why didn’t you use the 13gen intel cpu ?

And what’s this pc what about for aditivng vudei

90C on the cpu doesn‘t seem right even with an silent build.

Too much distracting B roll/inserts.

this doesn't right. most of the components are overkill

Awesome video!

kinda lame video :p
lot of general blabla and no mention of specifics that make it quiet.
Your best bet to have a silent computer is by having it in a walk-in closet or other room, so you only have keyboard, mouse and display in your studio.

I had to subscribe, you're so knowledgeable 👍🏾💯

The newegg side of your thermalright peerless assassin cooler affiliate link seems to be broken today!

This is by far the best DAW directed PC build guide I've seen on the internet so far. Your choice of motherboard was spot on, I would have also included that the ethernet ports can be used for audio over ethernet protocols like Dante, this gives you a lot of options for high quality audio interfaces without having to buy expensive option cards. I also liked that you chose an E-ATX board as PCIe expansion cards are very common for things like word clocking (a must), MADI/ADAT connection, as well as DSP acceleration so having those extra PCI lanes are very important. I do think your RAM choice was a bit overkill in terms of size, having more than 16GB doesn't really make sense for a singer song writer type, maybe up to 32GB would make sense for someone doing large projects but might still be overkill. But I wouldn't go up to 64GB unless you were recording orchestras with multiple mic arrays recording at 192kHz/24Bit for hours at a time

I don't think the noise is that important as professional production setups will try their best to put any noisy machine in another room. But for the home producer having their computer in the same room might be a must to avoid spending a lot of money on long cable snakes and KVM extenders. That being said I think it would have made more sense to go with the Noctua ULN specified fans. The 120mm NH-S12A ULN with the LNA attached produces only 6.7dB according to Noctua's website, which is astonishingly low. Along with that it could have been interesting to use the fanless CPU cooler from Noctua as well. Though with the current fanned cooler you have very low levels of noise, that low level can become more noticeable in a properly treated room with isolation from the outside and silent HVAC. For reference a professional control room's ambient noise level is about 20dB which is equivalent to the sound to a watch tick, which is why most studio designs place the computer in a completely separate room.

Does the pc have emi problems when recording guitar close to the pc via sound card and vst?

Electricity prices... and they want to force us onto using electric vehicles. Bullshit. These people are mad!

is hard Drive required in the system? if not how?. am new to PC and am planing to build one for my studio

im thinking of getting a I9 13900k, but will it get too loud and so on?

how much was this build?

I need something as quiet as a Mac Studio. Is this build as quiet?

Lol, in my city in summer we have 36 celsius inside the rooms,

Yep need multi core but grunt as quite a few tasks are sequential and can't be divided up . Memory just fill it to the max with fastest you can get

- DAW PC build guide for Music Production & Quietness... follows color theme
- measures only temperature & noise
- noise measurement is: i can't hear it
- saying "maybe", "might", "you know" in a phrase shows that you are not sure what you're saying?
- not measured system latency
- many audio interfaces & DAWs recommend to turn off intel Hyperthreading, intel Turbo Boost etc. and put everything power related to maximum power (they even recommend disabling some CPU-C states)

Your splash screen had DIDGITAL (sic.) spelt wrong. It's DIGITAL

RE: Gigabyte Z690 Aero G DDR4
I have an older monitor that has a VGA cable, what adaptor will I need and which port on the Gigabyte Z690 should I use? Thank you!

super cool video!!!! Just to clarify terminology, a DAW is usually a software where we track or compose, such as Logic, Protools, Cubase, Ableton etc.... still learned a bunch as a computer tech noob and long time mac user! cheers mate.

this is a good budget silent case only 80 $

What about ASUS PRIME Z690-P WIFI and DDR5 should do the same at a bit more cost, but more power and faster.

Any chance for a link update on the components, it looks like some new fans have come out

Did you ever mention the total cost for this build

Perhaps I shouldn't ask for advice here but I'm going to try: I'm not even sure I need an Audio interface, I have happily used an M Audio Audiophile internal sound card for the last 20 years, first in a 20 year old PC then on my present build from about 10 years ago, I've just upgraded from Windows 7 to 10, and lost the software and drivers of the card in the process. I've been doing a littler research and it looks like my good old sound card is very dated. All I do is on Sibelius, DORICO, Vienna Instruments and Note Performer. All I really need is Sound quality, power to drive my Zennheiser HD 600 headphones well, lowest possible latency and no clipping. I like monitors with amps in them. Connecting an instrument or a Microphone is something I've never done, but it could be fun to do sometime maybe. Certainly not more than 1 instrument or 1 microphone. These are my two choices though I'm not sure they are what I need. MOTU M2 2x2 USB-C Audio Interface. M-Audio AIR 192x4 USB C Audio Interface. Hope you can help.

thanks a lot for the info... im planning to build a silent pc... your guide helps me a lot!!!

This was great! Maybe set up a deep dive interview with someone who really knows music studio computer requirements to see exactly how to configure the 3 types of music production computers: Home Studio, Project/Demo Studio, and Professional Studio. (Thank you for all you do!)

I'd like to use the Z790 ProArt Creator for my DAW audio production. I know the PCIe 5 on that board is designed for the GPU not the CPU,, I thought it was for the CPU. MY bad. What is the best configuration for NVMe SSD's in the Z790 for 3 Internal NVMe drives( I'm assuming they must all be Gen 4. and Possibly 1 Gen 3, I just want at least 3 Gen 4 SSD's). Also, since the TB4 goes directly to the CPU where the PCIe 5. card is,, is the Thunderbolt connectivity still fully functional for use with a THunderbolt Interface and a Thunderbolt Enclosure for an NVMe ssd(4TB)? THanks. I soo want to get started just can't seem to figure out the best configuration with the ProArt Z790.

and then all your hardware spit coil whine lika a train

Great video thanks. Sorry if I missed it but how much does this build cost in total.

Bro how about 9 7900x with msi b650 tomahawk and rtx 4070 ti for video editing 4k max 6k + plugins playback smoothly music production and gaming?

I really wonder is this case better than their define R versions? cause if you go for silent why get one with glass instead of fully closed body with full sound proof panels all around? Can u test it? Thanks in advance!

Alright man. I'm building this exact. It better be leaps and bounds ahead of my asus m32ad best buy box pc.

Should've gone with either radeon rx 6400 or 6500xt

What about the same build but with new amd? And usb4 ports?

Great video!
Great PC.
I love that it's quiet & without all of that RGB stuff.