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Robocop2

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Hi, i'm new here, and i would appreciate some help.

Basically i'm gonna be building a pc for music production, and have about £90 to spend on a cpu.

It will be either be a Intel Core i3 2100

or this a AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Socket AM3 3.2 GHz 6MB L3

what do you think, bearing in mind i have little knowledge in this area.

thanks
 
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Posting competitor links is against the rules.
That said, those CPU's are completely different platforms, what motherboard do you have?
Or, total budget?
 
i took off the urls, but all this is only in the planning stage, and i'd rather tailor the mobo to the cpu that i get. btw the budget is £400.
 
Yeh, you edited after I posted.
I'd say an i5 2300.
The i3 versus the 955 is pretty much, the i3 winning, but 955 taking the edge in heavily multi threaded apps
 
sorry for the noobishness, but what implications would that have, bearing in mind i might be doing some gaming and a bit of light video editing
 
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sorry for the noobishness, but what implications would that have, bearing in mind i might be doing some gaming and a bit of light video editing
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i3 2100 will deliver higher frame rate than Phenom II X4 in games (even more so in games that use less than 4 cores); Phenom II X4 at 3.2GHz MIGHT finish encoding tiny bit faster (when you AFK :D), but it is around twice the power consumption of the i3 2100 when under load and hotter running (CPU cooler fan spinning faster=noiser).

Another thing to consider is if you are getting the budget sub £50 1155 H61 motherboard, you'd still be able to stick 1155 i5/i7 Quad-core onto it as upgrade in the future, whereas the sub-£50 AM3 board, they are not gonna be compatable with the AMD Bulldozer CPU.
 
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When it comes to video encoding with HandBrake my Core i3 2100,a 3.2GHZ Athlon is around 25% faster and a 3.3GHZ Phenom II X4 is around 34% faster. These are comparisons I done myself on another forum. My Q6600 at around 3GHZ is around 16% faster and a 2.9GHZ Phenom II X4 is around 18% faster.

When it comes to games any which can use 4 threads will have comparable performance between the processors. Any games which use two or three threads will be faster on the Core i3.

For music production the Intel processors tend to do better. However,if you go onto the forums of some of music production software companies it seems there are some issues with Sandy Bridge ATM. Maybe they have been solved but I would do some research.

I would consider getting a secondhand socket 1156 Core i5 750 or Core i5 760. On the famous auction website they are going for around £90 to £100 last time I checked.

Also,the H61 motherboards only have two RAM slots,no SATA 3.0,no USB3.0 and ACHI support. If you are going with a socket 1155 based system I would at least get an H67 motherboard.
 
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With reason, well, I was running it on a P4 with next to no issues. I would go for the 955, as you have plenty of overclocking potential.

But one thing I MUST stress is get a decent sound card. Xonar D2X or similar :)
 
Not attall Mike,no was just seeing if anyone uses that feature,the DSP meter seems to go crazy when i rewire,although that was on a 8200 chip.


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About the DSP meter in Reason 4
In Reason 4 the CPU meter (in the lower left corner of the Transport panel) has been replaced with a DSP meter. The DSP meter does not display the computer's total CPU load, but reflects the load that Reason's sound generating code puts on the CPU. The meter does not capture the extra load coming from other programs, nor does it display the load coming from Reason's user interface.
 
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