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Old 02-08-2020, 03:44 AM
Digit Al Digit Al is offline
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Default HD Native Card-Motherboard Compatibility

My System

Hackintosh. If this makes you nervous. Don't read.

Asus Rampage 4 Gene. i7 3820 3.6 ghz 4 core.
HD Native card - Madi - RME ADI648 - Aurora - Big Ben Clock.
All works great. PT 11.3.2 8 instances of VePro 400 patches and running 30 instances of Lexicon PCM. All peachy.

Bought a Gigabyte Z390 M Gaming and an i9 9900k Cpu at 3.6 ghz.

Both run 10.14.3 Catalina or 10.13.6

Using the 12.6 HD driver.

With the Asus, Pro Tools CPU meter shows 4% when playing back.
With the Gigabyte, Pro Tools CPU meter shows 16% when playing back.

In Geekbench the Asus clocks at 13k, the Gigabyte at 35k, so the gigabyte is clearly faster. But Pro Tools performance is clearly slower.

Could this be a HD driver issue?

Using Pro Tools with a MOTU PCIe 424 card both computers have the same performance.

Again, exact same SSD with the exact same software, drivers etc.

I can't find it, but it seems to me that at a certain point Avid upgraded the HD native card, and I'm wondering if it's a compatibility issue with the new mother board, an issue with how Gigabyte deals with PCIe vs Gigabyte, or something like that.

The new system is way faster, but if the CPU load is already higher just playing back, I don't think it will do well with the patches playing through VePro on top of it.

Any thoughts?

Last edited by Digit Al; 02-08-2020 at 04:06 AM.
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