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hollo · Post by **hollo** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 12:17 am

I am also canging my desktop, planning to get the 6 core i7 5820k. I really hope it will going well for todays CPU hungry synths.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 12:47 am

You'll be perfectly fine with that, hollo.

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 5:28 am

Great CPU hollo and Haswell-E work with the faster DDR4 RAM which isn't bad either.

hollo · Post by **hollo** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:42 pm

Thanks EvilDragon, and yes murnau, DDR4 RAM is planned.
My only concern is about my great sounding trusted E-MU 1616M - no PCI in the new motherboards

aaron aardvark · Post by **aaron aardvark** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 4:06 am

I don't think it covers Diva specifically, though what I think is the latest issue of Sound on Sound magazine covers this topic or similar. Skimmed over it today in a book store.

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:10 am

hollo wrote:Thanks EvilDragon, and yes murnau, DDR4 RAM is planned.
My only concern is about my great sounding trusted E-MU 1616M - no PCI in the new motherboards

Yes, i have the same problem. I need a PCI for my old PoCo.. Maybe someone have a working solution running already?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:57 am

PCI is pretty much dead at this point... So either keep a second machine with it or wave goodbye to your PCI hardware...

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 8:50 am

Yeah i know that but i'm here for solutions or alternatives: There are still Haswell (not Haswell-E!) MoBo with one PCI available so i could at least run a Intel Core i7 4790K if i want.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 2:52 pm

I've never used it but it might work:

http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/ ... d~PEX1PCI1

I'm pretty sure it'll mean that full height card won't fit in the average case slot anymore.

murnau · Post by **murnau** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 3:25 pm

bmrzycki wrote:I've never used it but it might work:

http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/ ... d~PEX1PCI1

I'm pretty sure it'll mean that full height card won't fit in the average case slot anymore.

Hey thats cool! Thank you for the link! Maybe someone here tried this out in the past? Would be great to hear from.

hollo · Post by **hollo** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:11 am

Thank you Brian!!!

Until now i only found some converter cable so the PCI card would hang outside naked.
Will check this out.

bmrzycki · Post by **bmrzycki** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:44 am

Joseph and murnau, you're both welcome.

As I said I have not used it so I can't give a first-hand recommendation if it works or not. If either of you do try it please post here, I'd be interested to know if it worked.

Good luck!

tedlogan · Post by **tedlogan** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:02 am

hollo wrote:I am also canging my desktop, planning to get the 6 core i7 5820k. I really hope it will going well for todays CPU hungry synths.

I recently upgraded my whole PC, going from a first gen i7 920@2.67ghz to a 5820k overclocked to 4.4Ghz (Corsair H80i keeps it nice and cool).

HUGE difference, as expected. I haven't tested Diva nor seeing how many tracks before it starts crackling (Ableton Live 9.2.2 64 bit), but previously I always had to freeze Bazille channels at 512 buffer, 38ms overall latency. Horrible.

Now I can run hugely complicated Bazille patches, HQ mode, 8 stacked voices with 16-voice polyphony and the CPU barely shrugs. Not that I ever really need to run Bazille in 8-stacked mode, but you get the idea.
Same old Edirol UA-25 (the ones from 10+ years ago) interface at 128 buffer , with extra small buffer size chosen,, for a really low latency (can't remember, at work)

The much more expensive 5930k is not worth the extra cash in my opinion, and the eight-core big brother above that is...out of my league at least.

5820k - very happy with it. I sometimes still expect those pesky dropouts, yet it never happens. Seems too good to be true, still getting used to it.

I wouldn't wait for Skylake - only the quadcore models will ship initially, and I highly recommend more cores. The hex-core ones only start shipping sometime next year I think. And even then, they probably won't be THAT much faster.

evilantal · Post by **evilantal** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 12:47 pm

hollo wrote:Thanks EvilDragon, and yes murnau, DDR4 RAM is planned.
My only concern is about my great sounding trusted E-MU 1616M - no PCI in the new motherboards

I had the same concern and got a 1616M PCIe second hand

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 9:18 pm

cron wrote:Consider waiting for the Skylake i7s to arrive. They're just a month away IIRC, and should give a nice boost in performance compared to the current Haswell/Broadwell architecture.

Consider buying an unlocked chip (chips ending in K - I 'think' Skyake will be keeping this naming convention) and 'overclocking'. I put overclocking in inverted commas as these chips are designed to be overclocked, and Intel's specification makes this clear. I've got an Ivy Bridge i5 overclocked to 4.5 GHz and I'm still well within Intel's specifications with regards to voltages and heat, so there's an argument to be made that I'm not 'overclocking' at all because I'm not exceeding the specification. I'm using a cooler the size of my head which is nice and quiet, but I understand 4 GHz on the stock cooler isn't rare.

just showed that it's not worth to get a skylake

http://www.gamestar.de/hardware/prozess ... benchmarks

u-he

KVR Audio

which CPU to get now for making DIVA and others shine?