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Hey Windows 7 shouldn't take up 30GB of space, I think you might have you pagefile on the SSD which you don't want, because it can take up a lot of space and it will write a lot to the drive which will harm performance, SSD are great for reading, so samples and OS, but are still having...

You should be able to get the system down to quieter then your MAC Pro to be honest, WD hard disks are good, you can put them in silent enclosures to make them really quiet. The PSU needs to be good and I haven't used the one you mention, Bequiet or Seasonic models will be very quiet, the...

The stock fan on the 980X is pretty decent, are you going to use that or put on a 3rd party one? I would probably just keep the stock one if I wan't OCing put it in quiet mode and you won't hear it. I didn't get a chance to benchmark that dual 6 core system properly, but I ran DAWbenchmark...

Yeah I get to play with all the new toys, can't afford one of those CPUs though! I'm going to load up my biggest project on this system, I reckon it will hit about 10-15% CPU usage.

a 4u rack will not be able to take the larger CPU coolers around on the noctua range you are looking at the NH-U9B as being the tallest one you can use, that will easily cool a 980X nice enough though. I've got the dual X5680 at home with me this weekend and will be benchmarking it, should...

I've had a fireface on the 980X although I've got a RME Raydat that I'll probably be putting in there, in my experience you won't find that much of a difference between them, the PCIe will give slightly better plugin load at the lower latency but both are good. Might be able to test the...

I've just benchmarked a 980X using that same DAWbench and get 192 instances at 32 samples and around 220 at 64 samples, I got bored after that so didn't do the other buffer settings. On the SOS the latest graph shows an 2.26 E5520 getting around 245 at 64 samples but this is slightly more then...

Hi, I'm not sure they can fully. I think to fully disable the C1E halt state and EIST setting this must be done in the EFI which can't be modified or you need an application like coolbook but that doesn't work on the new MAC PROs, would love to know if you have any proof different (I'm...

That is what I've just got in! Along with 48GB of RAM, I'll post some benchmarks using DAW benchmark when I get a chance (probably next week) PM me if I forget. Going to me used for the VSL samples and it's MIR mixing/reverb thing. As you showed the Mac PRO problems are mostly due to CPU...

Hi, lurked here a while but thought I would correct something as this is kind of my area of expertise! That graph shows the old Xeons which is why the new i7 chip beats it, the new Xeons (which are really just 2x i7s with another QPI enabled so they can talk) easily beat the i920 the 980X puts...