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Eckhard Doll
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Mauri
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Hello Eckhard,
Good work, that's a nice, concise guide which will help many get their systems together very quickly. If only they will read it!
Just a lil' nit pick here, the english link takes you the "deutsch" page and vice versa  .
Cheers,
Mauri.
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Eckhard Doll
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Ok Eckhard, shows you're human too.......... !
Mauri.
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Christian Dettner
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Hi...
Just a short note we updated the CPU lists today (thanks Ed). Intel-based Macintosh computer performance rating will be included as well shortly. But it should be already known now that these Macs are as fast and performing as their PC counterparts.
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| looking to upgrade my system to C4. found the charts very helpful for my next purchase of hardware. thanks |
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JoeNovice
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The page is very helpful, especially for CPU options. It would be IMO greater help to have some motherboards from the top makers rated. ASUS, Abit, Gigabit, etc.
Perhaps just one or two Steinberg uses for their test machines?
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why are the dual 2 extreme (quadcores) not recommended?
and it would be very helpfull if u could list some of the good chipsets.
eg is the nVidia nForce 680i SLI a good chipset for cubase4 or not?
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Christian Dettner
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Hi...
The price-performance ratio is a bit iffy, for the moment at least. I guess the next round of Intel quad cores expected at Q2 will have a recommendation then. The list will be updated soon again and is in a constant flow anyway.
For chipset questions we can not really make recommendations without knowing the exact hardware setup, therefore the audio hardware manufacturer is the best address to get more information in this regard.
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hi chris, thx alot for the quick reply.
good to read that about the quadcore. in that case it has nothing to do with any incompability issues with cubase4?
so using a kore and rme, i would have to contact native instrments and rme to tell about the chipset? did i understand that right? |
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Christian Dettner
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No, there is no incompatibility for the quad cores (assuming you use at least use Cubase 3.1 SL/SX or higher, older versions are only dual core but but multi core aware). The recommendation is estimated by us by taking price/performance also into account, but it is not set in stone. How could we, in these days with new CPUs every month.
And yes, for audio hardware <> chip set issues please contact the audio hardware manufacturer.
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| okies, thx a lot! |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 4:38 am Post subject: Re: General hardware recommendation guide |
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| Eckhard Doll wrote: | If you need general information on how a well working Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) should look like and what to keep in mind, this DAW components guide from our webiste might be helpful:
DAW guide [English]
DAW guide [German] |
Since AMD X2's are OK, is it safe to assume that AMD Opteron dual processors are also OK? I have no probs running C4 on my Core 2 Duo laptop but it crashes on startup on my desktop rig (Opteron 170 / DFI CFX 3200 / Mushkin 2x1GB DDR500 / ATI 1900XT / WD Raptor 150GB / XP Home). I've got an excellent power supply and the rig is super stable at high CPU load applications like video rendering, benchmarking dual Prime, Photoshop large image batches, etc.
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Eckhard Doll
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| Eckhard Doll wrote: | | Opterons are perfectly fine. If Cubase crashes on startup this is rather related to faulty drivers or plug-ins. |
Thanks for the reply. If you have a link to the fix for driver problems, please post it. If you don't have time, that's OK, I'll look around the site. I have not yet installed any 3rd party plug-ins on my Opteron box. It has Sony Soundforge, Sony Acid and Sony Vegas, all of which were installed before Cubase 4. I have not installed any other software that would have audio drivers that I know of. I'm also wondering if the problem could be with the motherboard's onboard audio - I think it's called Realtec. |
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Pascal Kulman
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hi
what do you think about figuring out some nice daw-setup presets for nLite? => http://www.nliteos.com
that would make it very easy to everyone seting up winxp on a daw, isn't it?
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Both of these links are currently broken (404). Could we get them fixed?
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