vdamir78 wrote:I thought ddr5 already has ECC capabilities by default?
Only on-chip; they don't have ECC for inflight errors with a dedicated parity chip.
I simply cannot afford a superexpensive motherboard.
They are not. In fact, they are often cheaper than consumer "enthusiast" boards due to not having tons of useless onboard features. And you pay for what's really needed.
The system will not be overwhelmed all the time, only in hybrid-mixing combined with higher oversampling on the gate/clip/limiter plugins when an initial mix for drums + rest of the song is being put in place.
After that's been printed, there could be some
rare realtime outboard mixdowns, but for the most part, the latter stages of the mix will remain ITB, and only so much loaded with plugins.
And still, nobody would like to have their project ruined because of an onboard Wi-Fi driver freaked out or due to a BSoD caused by an ECC error (much more likely with large RAM sizes).
My current computer cannot handle this, so I need something better, but not NASA-better, to handle stuff when it becomes demanding.
Then I say, invest in a previous-gen workstation-class hardware, not necessarily top-end. It will bring you peace of mind and you will know that you got covered for at least next several years.
I would get something with no more than 6-8 fast cores from Intel's Xeon E or lower-end Xeon W lineups, with a decent MB from Supermicro without any additional features like Wi-Fi, RGB lights, fancy integrated audio etc., and with ECC memory modules. No need to buy a kilowatt PSU or a top-end GPU. It's a working tool that you buy, after all.
Fireface UCX II + ARC USB > ADI-2 Pro FS R BE > Neumann KH 750 DSP + MA 1 > KH 120 A
