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| DJ Dowlz |
I'm thinking of upgrading my comp and was looking at the option of dual processors. Does anybody know if they work well with vstis? Eg if I'm running 10 vstis in cubase, will the processors be used to their full potential?
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| Scottaculous |
Depends on your OS. Production under the Win2k platform is significantly better under the dual processors b/c it uses a special method to handle interrupts (higher than 15, APIC), but on single CPU systems all devices will have the same IRQ (9.) Also read up on your soundcard's hardware compatibility.
And no I doubt 10 VST will use up all your processing. But I suspect the limiting factor is not processing in most cases. Physical memory and disk access speed are usually the limiting factors. |
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| kentylad |
Firstly, running a dual processor system is expensive business and is only supported by Win2000 or NT as far as I am aware. Secondly, Win2000 is not a consumer OS and in my opinion, if you want a gaming/production machine you are best sticking with Win98 and splashing out on a large capacity, fast hard drive running your games from a virtual disk on the drive.
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| Veverka |
WinXP also supports dual processors. BTW, XP is a fár better OS than Win98 when it comes to producing (well, in fact, when it comes to everything).
When you're going to use many VST-effects (like 20 reverbs at one time), it's a very good idea to use two processors, when you turn the dual processor optimize function on in Cubase, you can get up to 180% of the capacity of a single processor! Note that it's also adviceable to use twice as much RAM. |
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