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Wantze Tut · Post by **Wantze Tut** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 9:15 am

Which is the best priced CPU for using the DIVA without any problems?

Best reguards

exmatproton · Post by **exmatproton** » Sat Apr 23, 2016 6:44 pm

Wantze Tut wrote:Which is the best priced CPU for using the DIVA without any problems?

Best reguards

4970k core i7

RedChameau · Post by **RedChameau** » Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:44 pm

This is 2016. Diva was released in what ? 2012 ?
Any CPU, except maybe Atoms will do the job. Sometimes I use Diva on an old dell laptop from 2008 embedded with a Core2duo 2,0 Ghz and it runs just fine.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:50 pm

RedChameau wrote:This is 2016. Diva was released in what ? 2012 ?
Any CPU, except maybe Atoms will do the job. Sometimes I use Diva on an old dell laptop from 2008 embedded with a Core2duo 2,0 Ghz and it runs just fine.

It has seen a lot of improvements and optimizations since then though i think.

chilly7 · Post by **chilly7** » Tue May 03, 2016 11:42 pm

As far as i know there is no best priced CPU. It depends of you budget and horce power you need. The crap is that with Intel CPUs the price goes in geometrical progression more power you need. And Intel upgrade power of CPUs very slowly. But unfortionaly there is no beter CPUs then Intel. AMD is a loser as with video cards which running on the back of competitors which are not that great as well.
P.s.
I do not think there are any significant creativity obstacles but it is just an ugly bussniess where the main goal is not to make the best possible products as soon as possible but to make biggest amount of money as possible.

ATN69 · Post by **ATN69** » Wed May 04, 2016 1:04 am

From what I learned recently it all depends on how you run Diva. You can run Diva with fairly low CPU Power but when you start to do some serious tweaking of the filters and use the so called devine mode, then Diva becomes hungry. So if you really want to use the full potential of Diva you better get a good CPU. If not, then you can do it with most CPU's.

tttttom · Post by **tttttom** » Sat May 07, 2016 9:43 pm

By the way, there's something I don't quite get about the CPU consumption of Diva.
I've had Diva for a few years and it used to run perfectly with my McMini from 2012 (i7 quad core, but still from 2012).
Now I've upgraded my machine and switched to Windows, and everything is basically more powerful (i7 4790k, 16 GB ram, etc) and yet I can't even run one instance of Diva without my buffer popping/clicking. This happens even with a very very high latency (unplayable high). It gets a tad bit better if I set Diva to Draft mode, but then after one instance of Diva the trouble starts again. I can run tons of Aalto's in the same project and I'd never have that problem, although it's supposed to be a demanding plug-in too.
Is that an known issue with Diva and Asio or Windows? I don't quite get where the issue comes from here.
I tried in several hosts, so I don't think it's due to how Live manages ressources. Anyone had a similar experience?

EvilDragon · Post by **EvilDragon** » Sun May 08, 2016 7:43 am

That's certainly bizarre, especially since Aalto is a bigger CPU eater than Diva in fact. Don't think this has anything to do with ASIO though.

Are your power options set to High Performance? Also google a bit and disable core parking and Intel SpeedStep.

exmatproton · Post by **exmatproton** » Sun May 08, 2016 12:33 pm

tttttom wrote:By the way, there's something I don't quite get about the CPU consumption of Diva.
I've had Diva for a few years and it used to run perfectly with my McMini from 2012 (i7 quad core, but still from 2012).
Now I've upgraded my machine and switched to Windows, and everything is basically more powerful (i7 4790k, 16 GB ram, etc) and yet I can't even run one instance of Diva without my buffer popping/clicking. This happens even with a very very high latency (unplayable high). It gets a tad bit better if I set Diva to Draft mode, but then after one instance of Diva the trouble starts again. I can run tons of Aalto's in the same project and I'd never have that problem, although it's supposed to be a demanding plug-in too.
Is that an known issue with Diva and Asio or Windows? I don't quite get where the issue comes from here.
I tried in several hosts, so I don't think it's due to how Live manages ressources. Anyone had a similar experience?

That's indeed weird. I use a Core i7 4970K as well, Live (9.6) and Diva. No such problems are acting up on my end. I can run multiple instances (around 5) with devine settings and per instance 16 voices. With the cutoff open on Ladder and cascade, i don't have drop outs, popping and/or clicking. This is @ 44.1 kHz. Ethernet enabled, but no browser opened.

This is pushing the CPU to 91 to 96 %. Very high for sure, but no dropouts...

This is on my UR28M ASIO driver with a buffer set to 96 samples. I have multicore enabled in all Diva instances.

tttttom · Post by **tttttom** » Sun May 08, 2016 4:03 pm

Mmmh, interesting... Thanks for sharing! It'd be interesting if I could test Diva's behaviour with another soundcard on the same machine. Still, Diva is literally the only plugin that does that. Everything else runs like a charm. I've e-mailed U-He to see if they know anything about possible issues with Diva and my config. I'm having trouble adapting to my new life without Diva!

Wantze Tut · Post by **Wantze Tut** » Tue May 10, 2016 1:18 pm

At the moment I still use a 4 core from amd... changing to intel is very useful I think!

Thank you for your help!

All the best from Hamburg

bronxsound · Post by **bronxsound** » Tue May 10, 2016 1:19 pm

a really fast one

Jax Pok · Post by **Jax Pok** » Sun May 15, 2016 4:50 pm

I can manage three DIVAs + CPU intensive effects plugs on each with an i7 3Ghz from 2009.

david.beholder · Post by **david.beholder** » Mon May 16, 2016 9:51 pm

I use 3 years old I7-3930 (~$400 at that time) and it can stand anything still.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Mon May 16, 2016 9:55 pm

david.beholder wrote:I use 3 years old I7-3930 (~$400 at that time) and it can stand anything still.

Give it the ultimate stress test, and try Diversion.

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Best Price CPU for Diva?