Hi
 
This is a specific question. Is anybody using an Intel Core Duo P8700 2.53 Ghz sucessfully with X2 64 bit? (Win 7).
Background - Digging out an old Dell Latitude E6500, might give it a whirl.
 
(Please no need to talk about other hardware specs, or Cakes recommendations, got that base covered, I'm after actual experiences with people who have this chip - thanks).

Thanks
 
Alex

Not the chip you want, but I'm pretty close, and X2 works fine: 

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00 GHz 

X2 seems to be a little lighter load than X1 was, but that's only intuitive. 

Coincidentally, I just installed Sibelius 7 last week. That was the first software I've encountered that listed Core 2 Duo as the minimum hardware requirement. Probably time for me to build another PC.

Thanks.

Anybody with the chip or am I being too specific!:)

I used Sonar 8.53 on a P8600 2,4 GHz (4 Go Ram, Vista 32) without any problem.
Hope it could help (but afraid it doesn't)...

Again - not an exact match
 
I am still running an Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 @2.79GHz with Windows 7 64bit , Sonar X2a and 8 Gigs of RAM
 
It still does the job quite well.  I don't have any of the crazy problems I've been reading about that some folks are having - but I don't do tons and tons of softsynths either.

I was using a Duo Core 3.1Ghz machine, with 1333Mhz buss and 8 Gig RAM. I had issues with X1 dropping out and the CPU spiking to 100% at times, depending on the number of plug-ins. With 20 channels and 2-3 plug-ins each, I started having major drop-outs. Moved to a Quad Core, 8-thread CPU and the only time I have drop-outs is switching screensets. I think just adding buffers, you should be ok.

It's not an exact match, but I'm using an Intel i5 Quad Core with 4GB RAM.

Works fine here.

No problems at all.

Before long we will have crays and AMDs listed cheers. And 8 cores ;)

Thanks folks..

No crays here Alex - we had a crayfish earlier on, if that's any help 

No problems with my bed, it works !