I need help from you guys

[Mendel]

Hello Sneapsters,

I am planning to get a new pc, A super powerfull one but what do you guys recommend. here we go...PC or Apple ?

I never worked with Pro Tools and working 5 years now with Nuendo.
I do a lot of midi programming ( Drums, Keys etc)

Now a lot of you would say that nuendo is better with midi but I see that a lot of bands use midi (wintersun example with the upcoming time) and they all use Pro Tools ( on macs).

I want the most powerfull of all so what would you recommend to built in my Pc/Mac ?

And does anyone have expierence with 64bit software as it can handle more Ram.

Now I have 2,5 gig ram and pentium 4.
And current project is 6x voxengo boogex, 1 x dfhs + eq's.
And when i am running it real time the cpu get's to 100.

Help me, tips, anything.

 

[beyond dead]

ohh man. wait till james murphy sees this thread! I would back out as quick as possible! lol quick! run! haha




























(buy a mac, girls will think your cool)

 

[Soundlurker]

I'm not going into the Mac/Pc debate again but I want to say the biggest culprit in your case is the CPU.

I used to have a Celeron @ 2.66ghz that ran on 100%. I bought a Dual-Core Pentium (E2180) which was one of the cheapest dual core intels at the time and @ 2.0 ghz it managed the same projects on 20-30%. I have it slightly overclocked (2.66ghz) and it's still not reaching 100% with tons of tracks and heavy plugins. And that's a cpu you can get for 50 euro.

For 250-300 euros you can get an I7 that will be super fast. You'll need another 200 euros for the mainboard.

What's your budget?

 

[kev]

As below

 

[nwright]

I'd wonder about other issues causing that usage percentage.

I'm working on a 3 song demo for my band that is up to 20-28 tracks with an additional 14 group channels (all running plugins) and at last count 36 plugins and I'm sitting at 50% on a Core 2 Duo T5200 with 3GB ram.

Boogex is a CPU hog IMO, running 4 instances at once I see a big jump. I don't have DFHS so I can't comment on it. I can run AD without it using too much CPU, and this is with aptrigga replacing the AD stock tones.

 

[Mendel]

My budget is around 1200 euro´s.
I was already thinking of that intel core i7.

So the proceccor has also a rol in the cpu i guess ?
I always thought cpu was about how much RAM you had. I am wrong i guess ?

 

[Soundlurker]

CPU and RAM are barely connected. Unless you have really insufficient and slow RAM the biggest difference you'll feel is the CPU. I have 2gb ram and a project like the one you described would probably be under 50%, simply because the dual core CPUs are so much better than a pentium 4.

 

[MetalJonesy]

want at least a top notch core 2 duo, or quad core as PT 8 is more of a cpu hog. also get a processor with higher multiplier values, allows for easy overlocking, and at least 2 gig ram, ideally 4