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Deej [5]
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Registered: March 2008
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I've been spec'ing out processors. It's been a while since I've done
anything like this but I got curious. there are some monster performers out
there by Intel now.........truly supercomputer stuff and price tags of
$1800.00 per CPU, but it seems like the Intel Q6600 which costs around
$250.00 and can be clocked to in excess of 3.5GHz per core, is an incredible
CPU for audio because the mainboards have chipsets compatible to most
audio/DSP hardware. AMD seems to have recently come out with a CPU called a
9850 that is a quad core that is about the same price as the Intel Q6600 and
performs at roughly the same level.
It's a whole 'nuther world out there since I built my last DAW.
If I can get Chris to build me a DAw that can run my UAD-1 cards and my RME
hardware and I work at 1.5ms latency while tracking (which I can do now on
my current Opteron 185, though once the track counts get higher, it starts
to ping the CPU meter in Cubase so I have to go to 128k buffers.
I just want something that can sorta' loaf along at low latency like Paris.
I'm not too worried about using UAD-1 plugins while tracking anyway. It's
looking like a Q6600 on the right mobo might do just that.
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