Computer hard drives Computer hard drives, another important piece of your recording studio. Buy as big of a hard drive as you can afford. SATA drives are now the common drive and prices for these types of drives is coming down everyday. You should try and budget in a second hard drive or a DVD burner for backing up your recording works. To many times people don’t back up there music and loose it over a simply step that could have saved them hours of re-recording the music. a 16 or 32mb cache in the drive is best.

Monitors Computer monitors. I can not stress this enough, buy the biggest monitors you can so you have plenty of viewing space for your daw software. Make sure your video card supports dual monitors. It is so much nicer recording with two monitor screens up. you can widen the view of your daw which makes tweaking your tracks so much easier. no less then 19's I would suggest.

Computer case fans When buying case fans be sure to read everything you can on them, This is one of the most important parts next to the chipset and memory you buy. You want whisper quiet fans running in your case But you also want maximum airflow going thru your computer case Max speed again is want you want. keep your drives and cards and chipset running cooler and your system should run trouble free for years.also consider buying a fan contoller unit for your computer. Don’t forget to update your drivers for your computer as they become available.