Cubase - Quad Core twice as powerful as Core2duo?

Muser999 · Junior Member Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 81

Hello,

If I change my core2duo for a Quad Core of the same frequency (3Ghz for example)

will cubase be able to use twice the plugins it can use with a core2duo ?

Thanks

also, what difference between i7 and quadcore, they are worth almost the same sometimes...

Elien · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:17 pm Post subject:

I cannot quatify (nobody can) the number of additional plugins you can use in your szenario. But here is my personal experience:

The Quadcore was a big step... but i7 was a breaktrhough. It is not only because of the number of processors, but the architecture within the chip changed drammatically thus widening other bottlenecks.

With an i7 based machine I so far not a single time had to care about cpu load - and the latency in conjunction with the RME RayDat card is 3ms to 6ms maximum in the heaviest projects I have currently.

Sorry for not being more specific, I would never name a quantity without a clear setup /benchmark. It sometimes can depend even on the individual plugin you are using!

My advice in general: Quadcore is a big step, but get the i7. There DEFINITELY are WOLRDs between the two of them when running cubase on them.

Cheers, Ernst

matjones · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:25 pm Post subject:

Elien · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 2:47 pm Post subject:

Yes,... i7... the breaktrhough for daws on intel pcs.

Ernst
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HowlingUlf · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 5:16 pm Post subject:

+1 for i7

You pay a little less for those other ones that you mentioned but it's so totally worth it in the long run to have an optimized setup. And let's face it, the extra money can't be spent on anything remotely as vital as the hardware foundation of your digital audio workstation. It's better to make a stretch for a better processor at the start than pretending you save something when you'll just be stuck with a QuadCore for a few years, maybe several years of waiting and cursing and bouncing and compensating and cursing some more Wink

Come to think of it, when I bought my previous computer I actually bought a PIV when the rest of the world bought DuoCores Embarassed

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JimH · Junior Member Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 59

Remember that, as was mentioned recently in another thread here somewhere, it seems that all plug-ins for a given track run on one core. That's because the audio for one track has to be processed sequentially and so it can't be run in parallel. So if you're cramming a lot of plug-ins on to one or two tracks, you might not see that a quad-core runs much faster than a dual-core. But when you run more tracks it should spread out the processing better.
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bob1474 · Posted: Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:10 pm Post subject: i7

Went to i7 and have never looked back, even with Win XP and CS 5.2.2 32 bit (don't want to lose some of my 32bit plugs just yet nor goof around with bridges.) I even went with a system i could overclock , yet have backed it down to "normal" and still kicking butt. Howling Wolf is on it-spend the extra bucks for the very heart of your system. Smile

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Conman · Member Joined: 25 Jun 2010 Posts: 429

Me too. As soon as I saw the spec (by accident!) of the i7 I just bagged it straight away.
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Muser999 · Junior Member Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 81

Thanks guys,
a new I7 based PC is planned now ....
with what i can recycle from the current setup (HDs and peripherals mainly), the bill will be around 900-1000 euros for an i7-950+12GB ram, mobo and powersupply (or 800 if i don't take an SSD for the OS, which is w7x64....).
paid in 3 or 4 payments, it is not that expensive... (350/monthes for 3 monthes i guess it is manageable).