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Originally posted by Diginerd I've been running a dual clovertown system for nearly a year now and certain applications scale much better than others. Cubase is horrible at it. It does use all the cores, but if you have many live inputs the amount of "Baseline" CPU that gets chewed up is horrendous. If I have 32 I/O running, I'm at 1/3 CPU load. Doesn't sound so bad until you realise that on a standard core 2 duo CPU the load is around 15% doing the same thing... To put that in perspective, I have 8 cores accross the 2 clovertown CPUs running at 2.4GHz on a 1006Mhz Bus (No, they're not "Release" parts for those trying to work out what chips I actually have), the core 2 Duo has 2 cores running at 1.86 GHz! Bad bad bad Steinberg! Pro Tools on the otherhand is awesome. Very very well handled multi threading. I can run flat out with no problems and the amount of plugins I can have running is insane. So now I write & sequence on the core2duo, and record and mix on the clovertown machine.. I don't know about other apps as I don't use them.. Your Milage may Vary..

Heh. I was just looking at purchasing two E5335s, with a SUPERMICRO X7DAE. So Cubase doesn't handle Quad's so well does it eh? Good to know. Although like you, I was mainly interested in boosting the performance of my LE system. Most of us don't have the money for a HD Digidesign setup, so I'm going to build an "8 core" system.

Hmmm. I think I'll PM you.

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Originally posted by soundrush Ok, had some extensive producing sessions with this baby First of all, my system runs pretty stable (Windows XP SP2). As i sayd im running a Core 2 Duo E6850 on an Asrock ConRoe1333-D667 mainboard. 2 Gigs of 800 Mhz Patriot ram ..

why do you have 800mhz memory on a 667mhz memory supported board ?

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Originally posted by damnuok hey mate, that's exactly what im going to get! just wanted to know, what cooler do u have? im probably going to get a NOCTUA NH-U12F or a SCYTHE NINJA PLUS REV. B, but I'm not sure yet... any other suggestions? i want smth not that big, not that hot and not that noisy :P ohh, also, what soundcard do u have?

i have a scythe ninja rev b, it`s pretty good, don`t even have the fan mounted on it and it cools an e6850 very good, mine in an antec p182 case, around 30 degrees idle, and i gues not more then 55 stressed.

also have an emu 1820m, works pretty well, even on 24/192
the e6850 can handle a lot.

edit, mobo is a gigabyte 965p ds3, cheap but good.

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Originally posted by Massive84 439 euro for the Mobo ,cpu, and the ram.

newprices
e6750 164 euro
4gb geil ram, cas 44412 800mhz 178
mobo, ds3 80
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i would rebuild your pc for free if i could sell my secondhanded stuf for those prices.
but you have a different mobo probably, diff. mem.

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Originally posted by -_1_--Ben--_1_- why do you have 800mhz memory on a 667mhz memory supported board ?

wow, thats a good question i never realy thought about

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Originally posted by Massive84 Hmm so what does support Duo cores? As far as i can tell from your post. massive, zeta, vanguard?

i think it deppends if your host software supports multicore.

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Originally posted by -_1_--Ben--_1_- why do you have 800mhz memory on a 667mhz memory supported board ?

wow, thats a good question i never realy thought about

is it possible to increase the mhz by bios update?

don`t know, but isn`t bad if it works fine, in case you buy a new board someday you allready have 800mhz memory and it doesn`t cost much more then 667 memory.

I will check my mobo when i get home. But if i recall correctly i had the P5B from Asus which is 119 euros in a shop i just saw few minutes ago
Will check the ram brand as well.

As in why 800mhz? Because of the fronstside buss speed of the processor. The Exx50 series run @ 1333, while the Exx00 series run @ 1033. The advantage of this is that the cpu works faster with the memory. Disadvantage is you need more expensive memory to overclock it.

This makes the Exx00 series easy overclockable with 667mhz ram, while the Exx50 needs 800mhz or higher

The E6600 running @ 2.4, can be easy overclocked with normal cooling to 3 gighz with 667mhz.
While mine The E6750 running @ 2.6 needs 800mhz ram is currently clocked @ 2.96.

This gives it the same speed as E6850 and cheaper price which was
my intention to get . I got it clocked with just a normal cooler , so nothing special

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i would rebuild your pc for free if i could sell my secondhanded stuf for those prices.
but you have a different mobo probably, diff. mem.
As far i read the the E6750 seems to be a good overclocker. Currently the world record is 5.12 gighz
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I am not sure what you mean with this ben

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Originally posted by Octanesyco Greetings. My name is Casey. You can call me Moose. -Moose

i just thought maybe someone ripped you off for those prices, but didn`t know all your hardware, mem and mobo, so that`s all.
p5b deluxe is more expensive then ds3 so the price you`ve paid may be not to bad.

Last edited by -_1_--Ben--_1_- on Sep-22-2007 at 20:15

Dont think i got ripped off. The dude took 90 mins to rebuild the pc haha. he expected 15 mins.

But i have Aerocool tower and my old AMD had a big ass Artic ORB II cooler and it was a pain to get everything out and then inside. In the end he said next time he charges people more for rebuilding.

Wish i could see which brand of Ram i have. But i think i have a decent one. At least when i called him he told me he didn't have 800mhz cheap ram left.

As far as i know this PC runs very smooth

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Originally posted by Octanesyco Greetings. My name is Casey. You can call me Moose. -Moose