Threadripper or skylake i9 for vsts

[HcDoom]

I have i7 6700k and I can throw almost anything on it and it doesnt break a sweat! Ofc, this also depends how good your asio drivers are...its not all in cpu either!

[Synthman2000]

I am optimistically aiming for 10 year PC cycles now. 2 reasons allow this to be reasonable

SSD's and PSU's with 10 year warranty.

And it is simply not necessary anymore for a home music PC.
(Of course there will be exceptions)

There is no music I make that needs the latest CPU.

What I would like now is more time, I need to upgrade to high performance time.

[mrj1nx]

Interesting thread! Regarding add on dsp cards, is there any developments on that happening? Im assuming we dont have it yet because all the possible players want to have the whole cake. The UAD addon hardware, why not open it up to all plugins? And so forth...

[ekwipt]

Jeff Kampman at TechReport has stated there are issues with ThreadRipper for audio workstation use. Not that it can't, but that it seems to perform poorer than it should.

With TR and Ryzen it would be worth waiting for platform issues to be resolved before building a system around them.

I read about this on Gearlutz as well, i'd wait for some audio reviews first

[david.beholder]

Opinion 1 - original tests with DAWbench:
http://www.scanproaudio.info/2017/08/14 ... 20x-1950x/

Opinion 2 - on fruity loops it's performing as it should:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6 ... uction_on/

Some explaination on opinion 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/6 ... n/df8bzw9/

http://www.anandtech.com/show/11726/ret ... erformance

But still no test valid for me: Ableton + Divas

[DJ Warmonger]

There is no music I make that needs the latest CPU.

I don't think it's the music as such, but the speed. Loading stuff, uninterrupted performance and respinsiveness, and of course rendering and mp3 conversion. Unfortunatelly Ableton is very slow at rendering as it only uses one thread for this.
Other than that, I can certainly feel the improvmeent over my old Xeon ans simply DAW is there always when I need it. I don't need to wait forever until something loads or just reacts to new plugin dropped. Also I don't hesitate to load multiple synths, duplicate channels and keep them running as much as I want. I think I could even go work on multiple projects at the same time - didn't need that yet.

[egbert101]

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