mosspa

specsmanship.  
 

Great word.

Hi everybody,
I just have to agree with the i7, win7, and sonar 8.5 rocks statement. I have actually OC:d my i7 920 to 3.7GHz. I have the Megahalem monster CPU cooler with one 120fan. My CPU temps with Prime95 stress test go to 67-71 celsius. But using the machine for music production that kind of processor workamoun wont even happen. I have also 12GB of Mushkin 2000MHz DDR3 ram running at 1500Mhz. It's a monster. It's nice to work so that technical issues or restrains arent part of your composing work. I can use even 1ms latency quite long without any dropouts or pops. My audiointerface is the RME Fireface UC which totally kicks ass. :) Oh and dpc latency is about 7-10ms when the system is idle... :)
One thing that makes me wonder though is that the cpumeters in sonar seem to gather strain to only one thread. And when that thread reaches the top the combined CPU-meter in sonar shows also 96-100% CPU-usage and I start to get pops and cracks. When I check the taskbar in windows It shows that the CPU-stain is about 40-50% and it shows that the CPU-load would be more eaven with one thread just some more used. I have tested different setting and latencies and the same problem was eaven without OC:ing anythin on the PC. Does anybody know whats going on? I have set the thread option in the sonar initilation file to 2 as recommended for multicores.