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david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 6:54 am

Intel 3930 (6-core) -- never have any hiccups with lovely Diva and Tyrell

I think 3930 and 4930 are already old but LGA 2011 motherboards have PCI and I tested EMU was working. Altho I switched to Focusrite Saffire PRO 40 shortly after upgrade.

Also, water cooling like http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... -_-Product are good for keeping noise down

cron · Post by **cron** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 3:00 am

Caine123 wrote:
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

I can't read German so apologies if I've misinterpreted what I'm seeing, but these look to be game benchmarks where I'd assume the graphics card represents the main bottleneck.

You're absolutely right that the performance improvements on Skylake haven't turned out to be fantastic though. This link puts the processor through its paces on a variety of workloads, single threaded, multithreaded etc.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9483/inte ... neration/9

The performance jump is a little underwhelming, but perhaps this will change if developers start taking advantage of the new instruction sets Skylake brings to the table.

There's also the fact that Skylake requires a different motherboard, supports faster RAM etc, and so may be the more futureproof option should you upgrade in the future. On the other hand, Broadwell prices may drop soon as a result, although I didn't find this was the case (in the UK) with Ivy Bridge when Haswell came out.

Nevertheless, Skylake is here, so it's worth thinking about if you're building a machine.

Arrested Developer · Post by **Arrested Developer** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 9:22 pm

Will there be any 6 core i7 skylake CPUs ?

if not, i guess the fastest 6 cores / broadwell will remain the better choice.
(please correct me if i'm wrong...)

rod_zero · Post by **rod_zero** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 1:47 am

Arrested Developer wrote:Will there be any 6 core i7 skylake CPUs ?

if not, i guess the fastest 6 cores / broadwell will remain the better choice.
(please correct me if i'm wrong...)

There will be extreme versions but they are going to be released until next year.

hollo · Post by **hollo** » Sat Sep 12, 2015 4:26 pm

Finally my new PC is running (i7 5820k running on 4.40 GHz, 16GB Ram)
It was really difficult to fit the E-MU 1616M PCI with a converter, but after all the hassle it's working fine.

The PC is running with incerdible speed, doing everything fine except Cubase 8 VST performances.

I was able to make Spire, Spectral, Serum soundsets on my Q6600 on Win XP - it was cracling and
i could use only a few voices but worked. On Cubase 5 with HIVE the performance meter doesn't
reached 10%.

On the new PC even Hive can run up to 60%, Serum and Diva still hitting the cracle level - ok i can
play some more pad type voices (6-7).

I am totally underwhelmed with the VST performance. I am checking the Windows CPU meters
and barely reach 10% when Cubase is already cracking.

I started win 8 now i am on Win 10 (i know Steinberg is not supporting yet, but it is just the same
performance like i had on win 8 - no dropouts )

Do you guys have any Windows or Cubase tips on what i can do better?
I am going to install Cubase 5 32bit and curious about the performance meter in there.

I was sure if i run Hive on the new PC, the VST performance meter would show MINUS 90%

Cheers,
Joseph

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sat Sep 12, 2015 4:45 pm

Core parking is likely enabled, you should disable it (google about disabling that, needs a registry tweak).

Also set Power Options to maximum performance, it might be throttling the CPU.

hollo · Post by **hollo** » Sat Sep 12, 2015 5:33 pm

Thanks ED, I will try Core parking. Power Option is already there i guess.

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sat Sep 12, 2015 5:35 pm

Also perhaps check how the CPU holds out with Reaper, for example. As for C8, play with ASIO Guard options?

hollo · Post by **hollo** » Sat Sep 12, 2015 6:53 pm

You said many times about Reaper i will try it. Also thanks for Asio guard tip!

Caine123 · Post by **Caine123** » Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:35 pm

i didnt follow this topic lately, pardon me

im planning to get a new setup in october, did anything change so far? i wanna pay for a cpu $300 - (if it really is a great value!) $500

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Wed Sep 16, 2015 9:37 pm

Check out i7-4790K.

kyhon · Post by **kyhon** » Wed Sep 16, 2015 10:47 pm

Yesterday I worked on Intel I7-6700K (not on diva but other synths) and it was very ☀☼shining☼☀
But of course it depends on more factors (ssd , ram , motherboard , keeping the processor at low temperatures ect.)

And of course it sounds different from monitor to other monitor and also from audio interface to other audio interface

Elektronisch · Post by **Elektronisch** » Fri Sep 18, 2015 6:52 am

EvilDragon wrote:Check out i7-4790K.

x1 Using this for almost a year, no struggle.

sqigls · Post by **sqigls** » Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:03 am

hollo wrote:Finally my new PC is running (i7 5820k running on 4.40 GHz, 16GB Ram)
It was really difficult to fit the E-MU 1616M PCI with a converter, but after all the hassle it's working fine.

The PC is running with incerdible speed, doing everything fine except Cubase 8 VST performances.

I was able to make Spire, Spectral, Serum soundsets on my Q6600 on Win XP - it was cracling and
i could use only a few voices but worked. On Cubase 5 with HIVE the performance meter doesn't
reached 10%.

On the new PC even Hive can run up to 60%, Serum and Diva still hitting the cracle level - ok i can
play some more pad type voices (6-7).

I am totally underwhelmed with the VST performance. I am checking the Windows CPU meters
and barely reach 10% when Cubase is already cracking.

I started win 8 now i am on Win 10 (i know Steinberg is not supporting yet, but it is just the same
performance like i had on win 8 - no dropouts )

Do you guys have any Windows or Cubase tips on what i can do better?
I am going to install Cubase 5 32bit and curious about the performance meter in there.

I was sure if i run Hive on the new PC, the VST performance meter would show MINUS 90%

Cheers,
Joseph

Disable WiFi and Ethernet?

ezelkow1 · Post by **ezelkow1** » Fri Sep 18, 2015 3:28 pm

themachinelt wrote:
EvilDragon wrote:Check out i7-4790K.
x1 Using this for almost a year, no struggle.

Id also say go with this one. Im still using a 2600k (which me and my friends that own one see lasting at least another 2-3 years even though its already over 4). IMHO the 4790k is basically another 2600k. The skylakes have yet to show any noticeable improvement over the 4790k in any benchmark. So for the money the 4790 is probably the best one you could get at this point and should last you a good long time. The only reason to go skylake is more if you want to future proof your motherboard chipset as that is where the real enhancements have come so far

u-he

KVR Audio

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