Dual Core Athlon 64 vs. Dual Opteron Rig?

HI Sean,
you can look here~

www.adkproaudio.com/benchmarks.cfm

the dual core (both Intel and AMD) outperform thier respective dual processor counterparts, and cost less.

2 things to consider however.

will you be adding multiple Audio interfaces (EG 2 RME madi cards, 2 multifaces, 3 lynx AES cards) along with DSP cards? you would be better
with a real dual cpu system. more PCI buss' vs a single system with a single PCI buss.

plus the dual opteron will stay in your studio longer, and at a later date you can upgrade the single core to dual core dual opterons (4 cpus)

Scott
ADK

From experience... I had a Dual Opteron 246 system and was having a lot of problems with it. My new system (below) blows it away. Dual core (in my opinion) is the way to go.

Yes, where it does blow it away is with respect to the UAD-1's. The UAD-1's are capable of running more plugs with less load on the the system cpu... Although I am having a problem with crackles and pops on the right channel only when exporting audio. If I raise the soundcard latency to 1024, or lower it to 128 it works, but more useable settings like 256 and 512 gives me the crackles on export.