Rooey
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experience with dual core intel chips?
Hu all! Just wondering if anyone has a system using the new intel dual core P4 processors and what feed back you can offer regarding speed/conflicts etc as I'm looking at getting a new pc and want Sonar to purrrrr!!! (with oodles of plugins obviously!!!!!). It's becoming an interesting time for powerful DAWs n'est pas?
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cmusicmaker
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/14 14:07:13
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I would very interested in the responses to this thread as well.
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DonM
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/14 14:18:23
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Rooney:
I teach Sound Design at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh PA - tomorrow I will be building the image for my lab on brand new ultra high end HP workstations that are just what you are describing. I will be installing Sonar and Sound Forge on the workstatiions - I'll update you - we will be preparing a dual boot image of 32 and 64 bit versions of the OS - more on that later too.
-D
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Rooey
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/15 03:19:15
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Thanks DonM I'd really appreciate hearing your evaluations. Good luck!!
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Brandon Ryan [Roland]
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/15 03:30:13
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Hi Rooey,
I'm using a Dual Core "Extreme" 3.2. I've had no problems with it as far as conflicts or anything and perfromance with SONAR is excellent.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." WG SONAR Platinum | VS-700 | A-800 PRO | PCAL i7 with SSD running Windows 8 x64 | Samsung 27" LCD @ 1920x1080 | Blue Sky monitors with BMC | All kinds of other stuff
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Rooey
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/15 07:08:07
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Thanks Brandon. I'd expect Cakewalk are well on top of the new chips. Good to hear you're rockin' along nicely. Sounds like you have a very tasty set up! Cool! The future for DAWs looks bright.
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wogg
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/15 09:54:16
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Brandon Ryan [Roland]
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/15 13:26:30
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ORIGINAL: Rooey
Thanks Brandon. I'd expect Cakewalk are well on top of the new chips. Good to hear you're rockin' along nicely. Sounds like you have a very tasty set up! Cool! The future for DAWs looks bright.
 It does indeed.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." WG SONAR Platinum | VS-700 | A-800 PRO | PCAL i7 with SSD running Windows 8 x64 | Samsung 27" LCD @ 1920x1080 | Blue Sky monitors with BMC | All kinds of other stuff
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DonM
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/15 17:24:13
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Rooney:
I'm sitting on one of the dual proc xeon's right now - 10k rpm disks - very hot - I'm just locking up due to admin privledges but so far things are going fine.....
More later
-D
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wynnsong
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/15 18:11:49
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Hey Brandon,
Are you using Windows xp 64 bit/Sonar 64 bit or regular XP with Sonar 4.03????
Tim
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Brandon Ryan [Roland]
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/15 19:29:40
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ORIGINAL: wynnsong
Hey Brandon,
Are you using Windows xp 64 bit/Sonar 64 bit or regular XP with Sonar 4.03????
Tim
Hey there Tim, Well I was using XP64-bit with Sonar x64 basically just for testing and at shows. My 64-bit XP beta expired so I put the 32-bit XP version on with Sonar 4.03 which is what I'm currently using. This is working really well. I am in the process of acquiring a new (release) copy of XP (64 bit) at which time I will probably go back to playing with a fully 64-bit system. The only thing that really kills me about all this is the lack of 64-bit drivers for my beloved UAD1 card. 
post edited by Brandon Ryan [Cakewalk] - 2005/08/15 19:35:44
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cmusicmaker
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/15 20:59:49
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ORIGINAL: DonM
Rooney:
I'm sitting on one of the dual proc xeon's right now - 10k rpm disks - very hot - I'm just locking up due to admin privledges but so far things are going fine.....
More later
-D
How noisy are the 10K rpm disks. Obviously very fast but are they not too noisy?
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DonM
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/17 09:44:33
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Four fans, 11 inch long video card with it's own fan - The hard drives pale to that overall environment.
That's not to say the system is loud, but it is in a lab rather than a studio environment
-D
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Spartan
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/17 09:57:30
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hey rooey are you only intrested in the INTEL dual core? AMD are doing some good stuff to man.
SPARTAN.
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cmusicmaker
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/17 10:34:05
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ORIGINAL: DonM
Four fans, 11 inch long video card with it's own fan - The hard drives pale to that overall environment.
That's not to say the system is loud, but it is in a lab rather than a studio environment
-D
Thanks Don.
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/17 10:36:31
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RE: experience with dual core intel chips?
2005/08/17 14:18:12
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ORIGINAL: Spartan
hey rooey are you only intrested in the INTEL dual core? AMD are doing some good stuff to man.
SPARTAN.
I was reading abuot AMD's architecture on the new dual core processors. CNET tested them and they beat Intel's processors in every test. There are other things to consider, like compatability and stability, of course, but I'm looking at AMD too. Ken
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