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Posted by michael00elder on Aug-01-2006 11:49:

Dual Core machines - Question

I've just seen a really good offer on dual core pentium 4 machine.

My question is, if I'm using Reason 3, rewired to Sonar 5 and also a couple of VSTi's like Ansynth and FM7, will such a PC spread the load over the 2 2.66GHz processors.

At the moment I've only got a single core 2.4 GHz P4 processor machine, will I get far improved performance out of the dual core machine and also, do any of you knoew if the intel P4 dual core chips are any good?

Posted by DeZmA on Aug-01-2006 14:02:

question 1 : yes, sonar 5 supports multiple cores so it will spread the load
question 2 : depends on what application, for music production : yes. I didn't eat one yet, I wouldn't know if they are good.

Btw: i'd go for the dual 2.4, the price tag of the 2.6 is a little high, especially if you consider the extra power.

Posted by michael00elder on Aug-01-2006 14:18:

I forgot to mention that the dual core machine is only about �420 $700 brand new. That's for the machine with 500Mb ram, M-Audio 2496 sound card and windows xp home, keyboard mouse etc.

Posted by Low Profile on Aug-01-2006 16:57:

The Intel Dual cores (Pentium D's) are very good yes, and a dual core CPU will give you a very large perfomance boost using Sonar (since it's a multi-thread program with support for multiple CPUs)

However, be advised, that the new Conroe (Intel Core 2 Duo) CPU's that have recently gone retail are CRUSHING anything that the world has ever seen before. The cheapest conroe is around 200$ I think, and it'll tear apart any other CPU.... I just ordered me an E6600, cost me c.a. $350 but with a little overclocking this thing eats the $1200 AMD FX-62 alive
You can also get relatively high end models of AMD X2 and Intel Pentium D dual cores for about 100-150$ these days, since conroe is really pushing the market. Those are very good models, and the price is just rediculous (I'm actually thinking about buying a second desktop system, just because they're so cheap! you can build a great dual core 1 gig ram system for less than 400$ these days).

(btw, this post is not paid for or supported in any way by Intel inc. )

Posted by DeZmA on Aug-01-2006 18:52:

Thought he meant the core 2 type processor.. I would definately stretch the budget and go for that one right now. Like low profile said, it's the best on the market right now for the price. I would also go for at least 1 gig ram instead of 512 mb. 700$ seems low budget, where they tend to save on the power supply, the case, the fans, ... which isn't really a good thing for a DAW. Tbh you should double the budget to get a decent workstation, then again it's up to what you want to do with it.

Posted by No Left Turn on Aug-01-2006 19:09:

Is there a difference between the commercial Conroe's you can buy for PC and the ones that are included with the MacIntel's?

Posted by Chris Crossland on Aug-02-2006 04:03:

I was customizing a machine on dell.com and i had a dual core 3.2mhz 1gig ram, like everything top notch 2 monitors it was like 6 grand hahaha