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Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:44 pm

yes, im considering getting a new cpu (or some more hardware cause my old motherboard wont carry the new cpu i guess!), cause my projects are stuttering when having sometimes some instances of DIVA with great quality set and also when i use Wave Arts TubeSaturator etc.?

is there a cpu or hardware config which can handle such plugins (many many instances?)

J.Hartmann · Post by **J.Hartmann** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:35 pm

Maybe wait for the next generation, I believe they come out next year.
Have you tried using Diva in a lower quality setting? I only use the higher ones when I mix or export.

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 9:50 pm

J.Hartmann wrote:Maybe wait for the next generation, I believe they come out next year.
Have you tried using Diva in a lower quality setting? I only use the higher ones when I mix or export.

yes then it works better of course, but i thought maybe there is some cpu which can handle more instances in real time

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zvenx · Post by **zvenx** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 10:13 pm

Depends how many you want to handle.

I have an intel 4790K I think on a gigabyte board and I can handle quite a lot, and the newer generation the 5K series I hear handles more.
But yes next year supposedly the real boasts come.
rsp

xx JPRacer xx · Post by **xx JPRacer xx** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:45 pm

Just don't go with AMD!

rod_zero · Post by **rod_zero** » Thu Dec 11, 2014 11:46 pm

The 5XXX i7 have 6 and 8 cores, they can handle quite a few.

Fritze · Post by **Fritze** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 11:55 am

What to look for is (in this order): high clock rate (many voices on one core)and a big cache (many plugins at the same time). The rest is a question of how many cores you can afford.

Ah, it has to be an Intel as the AMDs aren't rocking in this category. Cinebench is the real world benchmark that gives you correct numbers for DAW performance.

exmatproton · Post by **exmatproton** » Fri Dec 12, 2014 12:30 pm

Caine123 wrote:
J.Hartmann wrote:Maybe wait for the next generation, I believe they come out next year.
Have you tried using Diva in a lower quality setting? I only use the higher ones when I mix or export.
yes then it works better of course, but i thought maybe there is some cpu which can handle more instances in real time .

I use a Corei7 920 @ 3,5 GHz. I can Run 6 Diva's at Divine quality with 6 voices poly @ a latency of 5 ms (FL Studio, ASIO UR28M) (effective 14 ms latency). Not that bad i think. Ofcourse with Multi CPU enabled.

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 1:34 pm

it would be great to read a reply from U-he directly?

thanks a lot for all the replies!

my current old cpu is an Intel i5 -2320 @3 GHz and it gets knocked down after 2-4 instances with great sound setting.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 4:21 pm

Caine123 wrote:it would be great to read a reply from U-he directly?

thanks a lot for all the replies!

my current old cpu is an Intel i5 -2320 @3 GHz and it gets knocked down after 2-4 instances with great sound setting.

If I recall most of u-he develops on Macs where you can't really select your CPU.

Stick with Intel. Next, decide if you are going to overclock or not. If you are you'll need the chip with the (K) suffix.

Stick with i5 or i7 parts. I'd recommend the i7s. The extra cache is useful for dsp-intensive applications keeping their datasets close to the CPU. HyperThreading will help if your DAW/plugs are written for parallel execution too.

Tom's hardware CPU guide recommends the Core i7-4790 or the Core i5-4690 as the best value per performance metric today. This guide focuses on video games but there are parallels in some datasets between audio workloads and video game calculation workloads.

Finally, I'd recommend waiting a bit if you can. Intel is set to release a new pair of architectures at CES this January: Broadwell and Skylake. The big change here is a move to a 14nm process which reduces power and thermal output. This means Intel can crank the clock higher on these parts for even more performance than today's 22nm Haswell parts.

Kaboom75 · Post by **Kaboom75** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 6:09 pm

Haswel-E CPUs are the best there are.
Try raising the buffer and latency in the DAW or ASIO options.

BBFG# · Post by **BBFG#** » Sun Dec 14, 2014 6:50 pm

I'm quite pleased with my Xeons (E5-2690)

Technology seems to be moving faster these days for now so it would be easy to get caught in the 'wait until' paralysis of not jumping in. Waiting for it to plateau long enough can keep you from doing anything. We just have to find a place we're comfortable in jumping in without banging our head constantly for the latest, greatest, fastest on the market today (because at this rate, everything is outdated in 6 months to a year anyway).

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KVR Audio

which CPU for multiple (GREAT quality!) instances of DIVA?