SonarX"n" -- Spreading Load Evenly Across Physical Cores

Would like to build a high-core Win7 or Win8 system to support high counts of VSTi plug-ins.  Feedback to date indicates whether high plug-in counts can be achieved or not depends primarily on how EVENLY Sonar is capable of distributing load across cores (whether multiple physical cores in a single CPU, or multiple cores across more than 1 CPU).  Anyone with empirical feedback on Sonar's core-load evenness capabilities?  Thanks.

If you currently have a multi-core CPU, you can download the X3 demo... and give it a whirl.
You should find that X3 is pretty well optimized for multiple CPU cores.
Noel/etc can correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe the GUI runs on one core... so it's normal to see a single core that's running a bit higher than the rest.  
 
FWIW, I use a six-core CPU in my main studio DAW.  
X3 spreads the load across all twelve virtual cores... with a single core bearing slightly higher load.

There is an excellent article on the Cakewalk site discussing Sonar's utilization of the Intel I7 features.
Google "Cakewalk DAW Labs Processor Spotlight: Intel Core i7 Processor"
and it should take you right to it..
 
Michael

This is a nice post Noel made in that massive thread a while ago. The white paper link is nice to read (since it was written by Intel), and this quote is a nice one "For 12 years, SONAR* has been the first workstation to support all Microsoft’s* operating systems, and the first to pioneer support for many Intel technology developments: hyper-threading, multiprocessor architectures, multicore processing and 64-bit processing."
 
Since it is 2 years old, I assume it could read "For 14 years..."

Jim Roseberry
If you currently have a multi-core CPU, you can download the X3 demo... and give it a whirl.
You should find that X3 is pretty well optimized for multiple CPU cores.
Noel/etc can correct me if I'm mistaken, but I believe the GUI runs on one core... so it's normal to see a single core that's running a bit higher than the rest.  
 
FWIW, I use a six-core CPU in my main studio DAW.  
X3 spreads the load across all twelve virtual cores... with a single core bearing slightly higher load.

Thanks, Jim.  I hope to have the hardware soon...hence my questions at this point.  Sounds like you are observing relatively even load across all 12 threads (consisting of 6 physical cores and 6 logical (hyperthreaded) cores).  Do you have any insights if X3 is capable of spreading evenly over two CPUs, each having multiple cores?  Thanks.