ACE- CPU, MOBO = My PC re RE build

[abstractcats]

Fellow U-He-ians And Urs of course.

I've come to realize I need to rebuild my PC, I'm going for a new CPU and MOBO.

What is your CPU hit from using ACE and what CPU/MOBO are you using.

I'm looking at CPUs at about $200 and MOBOs at about $100-$150, any ideas?

Thanks guys

[raikard233]

For that price a cpu that i can advice you is the intel i7.
Then we have to consider one relevant thing:
from what i know atm, every single plugin will be "assigned" to a single core, so if you have a 24core cpu at 1.5ghz, you will have a limit to 1.5ghz per single instance of ACE.
So, about cpu i advice you (besides that you choice a dual, quad, etc core cpu) to pick a cpu with high clock frequency, as a single instance of ace will not be splitted over (example) the four cores of a quad, but will be loaded only on a single core, and then the limit will be the clock speed of that single core.
When you load a second instance of ace probably it will be assigned to the second core, with the same limit and so on.
Perhaps someone can correct me, that's only what i know but can be wrong.

PS
Intel Xeons cpus are very good, but very good will be also the weight loss of your wallet.

[ford442]

ACE does not max out its core on my Q9650 3.0ghz Core2Quad - i have not tried heavy layering more than the included presets.. i can also run it on my 1.2ghz dual core celeron laptop - just no complex patches..

if i were buying right now i would go i7 also..

[MitchK1989]

You can get a hexcore phenom 1055T now for about $200 which comes stock at 2.8 but people have no had problems overclocking them to the 3.5 to 4.2 range on air cooling alone. I myself am building a computer around the new 1055t, in no small part thanks to ACE not really being that much of a "polysynth" on my 2 year old macbook pro

[monsterbeetle]

I just built a configuration using a core i7860 and a GA-P55A-UD4 motherboard, 8 gigs or ram and a passive Radeon graphics card. I'm really happy with itn and added a cheap Acer T230H multi-touchscreen that works like a charm under win 7 64bit (actually it can run OSX too, the gigabyte mobo and radeon 4*** series gfx are required for this to be possible).

My new machine smokes my old core2Duo by a great margin.

If you budget is tight, you could go for a core i5 and an ASUS P55 board and it would still smoke.

By all means stay away from AMD!!! they under perform.

[abstractcats]

By all means stay away from AMD!!! they under perform.

Hmmm, yeah, one of the reasons I'm looking at a re build as well is that the desk to I do most of my work on is what I re built about two years and I'm running a 2.30 gigahertz AMD Phenom 9600 Quad-Core and PCChips mobo with 4 gig ram and XP Pro x64 and its much slower using things like ACE, and my music programs over all than my Toshiba laptop which has a Cure2 duo 2 gig ram and Vista x32.

I still have the last set up for the desktop which is a cheap Core2Duo and Biostar mobo which I'm going swap and see what happens.

Thanks for the info

[monsterbeetle]

Actually the ASUS P7P55D is quite a good mobo, the only thing that kept me away frmo it was the VIA firewire chipset. I went for the gigabyte because of the Texas Instruments Firewire, and it cost me 50€ extra

Here in europe you can get a P7P55D + corei5 750 + 8 gigs of CAS 7 ram + 550W modular PSU for roughly 800 €. This kind of machine will let your run literally a hundred VST/VSTi in your DAW. This is crazy

[kennyda]

I just use an imac. Some sounds on ACE dont use too much, eg 5% of CPU, but a few are really heavy, using up to 20% so you cant have too many of them running. But you wouldn't really want loads going on at the same time anyway would you?

I can run a few ACES typically in a tune using 20-40% of CPU. I rarely have to worry too much.

Oh, except for the fact that I still don't have the faintest idea how to programme ACE!

[MitchK1989]

By all means stay away from AMD!!! they under perform.

My guess is that you had bad bios settings, or a bad mobo + cpu compatibility issue, or you're talking about realllly old AMD processors from back in the day where your statement would have some ring of truth to it.