hi,
can anyone tell me where i can find some useful cpu benchmarks/informations of the lastest cpu's regarding music production?
cpu benchmarks
This is just from personal experience but i would go with a 64bit system just to keep it more useable in the future. Currnetly the only multi-tracker that that is capable of 64bit production (that i know of) is Sonar, but soon everybody else will jump on. It really doesn't matter how fast the chip is so much because you will find ways to work with what you have no matter what. The best test of a computer with music production so far that i'v found is if it can run Native Instruments Electric Piano really cleanly. That program will eat up resources like what.
AMD is what a lot of software manufacturers recomend.
They have traditionally been really powerful and stable for music applications.
However, in the last little while they've been concentrating on their new path, so they have yielded the top spot to Pentium etc. btu that's only the top spots.
Depends on your budget, maybe let us know how much you have total, and what you are after (ie. monitor etc). then we can see how much is left.
Remember that CPU speed isn't the only thing that will give you a powerful computer, if you scrimp on other parts you will loose performance.
They have traditionally been really powerful and stable for music applications.
However, in the last little while they've been concentrating on their new path, so they have yielded the top spot to Pentium etc. btu that's only the top spots.
Depends on your budget, maybe let us know how much you have total, and what you are after (ie. monitor etc). then we can see how much is left.
Remember that CPU speed isn't the only thing that will give you a powerful computer, if you scrimp on other parts you will loose performance.
r.i.
let the music talk
let the music talk