So if I was to buy 2000Mhz dual channel memory and put it in a Asus Formula it would work without messing around with the voltages and so on?
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So if I was to buy 2000Mhz dual channel memory and put it in a Asus Formula it would work without messing around with the voltages and so on?
well if u have 2000 memory and u put in formula u probably will need to go in bios and set it on 2000mhz but no u will not need to mess with voltages, but 2000mhz to expensive not worth small gain stick with 1600
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A few words of advice from a fellow music producer:
1. Forget AMD CPUs In music production Intel CPUs are much more efficient at low latencies (with ASIO buffers @ 128 samples and below). A quad-core i5 760 should give you a better performance than a six core Phenom. (In the realms of DAWs 'performance' actually means how many VST/VSTi plugins you can use at once without freezing tracks and keeping the latency as low as possible). It seems the the sweet spot for price/performance is Core i7 860.
2. Have a look/join the forums @ www.dawbench.com This is the only website that I know of that tests various CPU/OS configurations for music production. You can download the test suite(s) and try it yourself
3. Leave some room in your budget for a good audio interface - think about stable drivers and low latency operation. Unless you need portability, don't bother with external audio interfaces (Firewire or USB) and get yourself a decent PCI/PCIe one. One of the best (but expensive )choices would be RME (either HDSP 9632 for PCI or AIO for PCIe) but something like M-Audio Delta or Echo Audio should be fine.
4. If you want to use Win7 64bit make sure that there are stable and mature drivers otherwise you might get issues with Cubase (or any other DAW).
5. Leave even more money to cure your addiction when you start buying more gear/plugins to make music
1. Forget AMD CPUs In music production Intel CPUs are much more efficient at low latencies (with ASIO buffers @ 128 samples and below). A quad-core i5 760 should give you a better performance than a six core Phenom. (In the realms of DAWs 'performance' actually means how many VST/VSTi plugins you can use at once without freezing tracks and keeping the latency as low as possible). It seems the the sweet spot for price/performance is Core i7 860.
2. Have a look/join the forums @ www.dawbench.com This is the only website that I know of that tests various CPU/OS configurations for music production. You can download the test suite(s) and try it yourself
3. Leave some room in your budget for a good audio interface - think about stable drivers and low latency operation. Unless you need portability, don't bother with external audio interfaces (Firewire or USB) and get yourself a decent PCI/PCIe one. One of the best (but expensive )choices would be RME (either HDSP 9632 for PCI or AIO for PCIe) but something like M-Audio Delta or Echo Audio should be fine.
4. If you want to use Win7 64bit make sure that there are stable and mature drivers otherwise you might get issues with Cubase (or any other DAW).
5. Leave even more money to cure your addiction when you start buying more gear/plugins to make music
A few words of advice from a fellow music producer:
1. Forget AMD CPUs In music production Intel CPUs are much more efficient at low latencies (with ASIO buffers @ 128 samples and below). A quad-core i5 760 should give you a better performance than a six core Phenom. (In the realms of DAWs 'performance' actually means how many VST/VSTi plugins you can use at once without freezing tracks and keeping the latency as low as possible). It seems the the sweet spot for price/performance is Core i7 860.
2. Have a look/join the forums @ www.dawbench.com This is the only website that I know of that tests various CPU/OS configurations for music production. You can download the test suite(s) and try it yourself
3. Leave some room in your budget for a good audio interface - think about stable drivers and low latency operation. Unless you need portability, don't bother with external audio interfaces (Firewire or USB) and get yourself a decent PCI/PCIe one. One of the best (but expensive )choices would be RME (either HDSP 9632 for PCI or AIO for PCIe) but something like M-Audio Delta or Echo Audio should be fine.
4. If you want to use Win7 64bit make sure that there are stable and mature drivers otherwise you might get issues with Cubase (or any other DAW).
5. Leave even more money to cure your addiction when you start buying more gear/plugins to make music
Fantastic information. I was wondering how long it would be until a producer was to look at this thread.
Looks from those benchs that HT works fine with it, that would make i5 a really bad choice in here, maybe ur friend doesn't know as much as he thinks : ).
If you can point me out to benchmark that works under win7 i'll be more than happy to provide some results. I couldn't seem to start any of those on that website.
If you can point me out to benchmark that works under win7 i'll be more than happy to provide some results. I couldn't seem to start any of those on that website.
I do intend to overclock the i5 760 to 4Ghz would this still no be adequate for the job?
Even 50quid x3 will be fine.but if u're going to spend few hrs a day on it then an i7 will be anywhere up to around 40% faster than i5. Also if you can point me out to win7 benchmark, I can do a small test on the scalability of phenom cores.