Berikco wrote:I tested a dual quad core xeon last week
8 cores
Not only does this look nice in taskmanager.
It realy is the only way to go for future OS and software.
Read about one using one of those for music production hehe
(suppose it was Darren Tate.)
Blueznl: For games, at the moment, you will do better with a big dualcore because of the games aren't really made for quad. I do suspect though, that they are playing with such stuff.
But whatever, I don't play games on my pc (that much.. ok a little racing now and then)
My intended use for my PC is general purpose, but with an eye towards good game performance.
So for me, I think a dual core AMD with Geforce 8800GTS or 8800GT will do just fine.
Since my preference for Windows is the Home editions wich from what I understand will only support up to dual core going any higher would be a waste.
And I have no interest in SLI, I'm not that much of a game player to be willing to go the expense of two graphics cards. For that reason I've specifically chosen motherboards that don't support SLI. Why waste the motherboard slot space with a slot I'll never use?
Tipperton wrote:Since my preference for Windows is the Home editions wich from what I understand will only support up to dual core going any higher would be a waste.
Home will support any number of cores. Only one physical CPU though!
Personally I prefer ATI. I just recently replaced all my Nvidia's with the MSI RX2600XT Diamond PCI Express with 512 MB, best card I ever had and it beat my Nvidia's (GE Force 8600's) hands down on World in Conflict, Crysis, and COD 4.
thefool wrote:YES quadcores make a huge difference.
The CPU has been the limit long time if you want fast responce from your audio interface and the effects/instruments. They are power hungry.
The modern DAW's can spread the load over all of your cores, hence you can run many more instances of the things you want to. For example i have a 3.3 ms buffer, and i get NO glitches even on huge tracks.
We also had a little testing going on at the Ableton Live forums. The quadcore 2.4ghz kicked the hell out of the 3.2 ghz dualcores, obviously. So yes, quadcore makes a hell of a difference :)
3,3ms ASIO? I can only get up to 5ms with ASIO drivers for my Sound Blaster Audigy 4 >_<
What sound card do you have?
I personally don't like both of them for something, although I prefer ATI. I've seen too many "cheating" from nvidia to be able to trust them, and I got proofs myself about that.
You can score higher with nvidia cards often, but the level of detail is simply a joke.
Plus their cards are often oversized, overpowered and overnoisy that I won't buy one of them just to get a few more 3dmark points that can't even be seen by the human eye on real games.
