I'm likely going to be buying a new pc sometime this month, this will be used purely as a DAW.
My most used music apps are reason 3 & Ableton live (prolly use 5, waiting to see how 5.02 is).
My question is this, i'm definately going to put 2 gig of RAM in but would I get any benefit at all from going up to 4 gig?
From discussions I understand that you can mess with windows settings, some kind of ram switch for individual programs, but that a lot of music apps cannot take advantage of this anyway.
Would these 2 apps, together or seperately take any advantage from 3-4 gig of ram?
On a related note would it be advantageous to build the pc around one of the dual-core amd64's?
Reason, Ableton Live & RAM.
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- KVRAF
- 3617 posts since 26 Sep, 2003 from Bradford - The Armpit of Britain
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- Banned
- 1648 posts since 11 Sep, 2005
2 Gig should be plenty. Don't bother with a dual core as it doesn't bring as much performance gain as they like you to think. Just get a single beefy CPU with appropriate cooling, it'll be just as good and lots cheaper.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3617 posts since 26 Sep, 2003 from Bradford - The Armpit of Britain
yeah the price for the athlon 64 3500 is around £160, 3800 dual core is around 260 - another £100, wasn't sure whether the benefit's are worth the price.
I've got the money to play with, but being tight-fisted & trying to get the best value for money is part of my nature, that's partly why I was wondering whether the extra ram would have any discernable benefit, as it's around £100 per 1 gig stick.
I've got the money to play with, but being tight-fisted & trying to get the best value for money is part of my nature, that's partly why I was wondering whether the extra ram would have any discernable benefit, as it's around £100 per 1 gig stick.
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- KVRist
- 259 posts since 12 Jan, 2005 from Germany
Hi,
if you are going to use Live5 you won´t benefit that much from buying
a dual-core CPU (as me).
Using SX would make a big difference e.g.
I actually don´t know what happens if you use Live5 as a rewire client inside
an application that supports multiple CPUs.
http://www.adkproaudio.com/benchmarks.cfm
Cheers
c1c2
if you are going to use Live5 you won´t benefit that much from buying
a dual-core CPU (as me).
Using SX would make a big difference e.g.
I actually don´t know what happens if you use Live5 as a rewire client inside
an application that supports multiple CPUs.
http://www.adkproaudio.com/benchmarks.cfm
Cheers
c1c2
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3617 posts since 26 Sep, 2003 from Bradford - The Armpit of Britain
i'm going to be use live as the rewire master & reason as the rewire slave.
A guy on the ableton forum advisd me that he does the same & using a dual core amd benefits, as live & reason appear to each use a seperate processor/'core'.
A guy on the ableton forum advisd me that he does the same & using a dual core amd benefits, as live & reason appear to each use a seperate processor/'core'.