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ECC: Music Production
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| Timothy |
What's the added value of ECC in music production?
The only added value of Server CPU's I see is the ability to use multiple CPU's such as in the Mac Pro? |
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| DJ RANN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Timothy
What's the added value of ECC in music production?
The only added value of Server CPU's I see is the ability to use multiple CPU's such as in the Mac Pro? |
The short answer is no. ECC is really also designed when massive number crunching is involved (i'm talking super computer or whole super networks) and also in very confined spaces and/or areas that are prone to interference causing data errors. Basically ECC Ram is more obviously accurate but when you do the math it makes no real world difference at all. I can't quite remember but one (data) bit of error is something like 4% distortion per sample (not in audio terms, but differentiation from the original data) but that is per sample (as in 44,100 of them) so in one second the relative data distortion is 1 divided 24*44100, which is 0.0000009 of deviation from the original, which in real terms in completely inaudible.
Go with non EEC. |
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| Timothy |
Ok thanks :)
I'm still debating what to buy next year. The new Sandy Bridge i7 27" iMac or a 16-core Sandy Bridge Mac Pro. Hard choice.
The 16-core Mac Pro is definitely going to be very helpful when doing simulations. But maybe I have to explore CUDA a bit more, especially on how to write code that make us of it :p I might not need 16-cores if CUDA works perhaps.
But on the other hand, I save alot of money if I go with the 27" Sandy Bridge i7 iMac. :) |
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