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Originally Posted by TOM@METRO
Another HDX on a six core here. And all is well.
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Hi Tom, I missed this one. what MOBO do you use?
Have you hear of good or bad results with x299?
It's unfortunate, it's VERY hard to find old boards in OZ...
Originally i was looking at an 8700K as i know it will just work, and i was trying to find a z170 or 270 board that has a prepared thunderbolt port, as that's all UAD guarantee functionality with on windows, they do not do so with AIC's. Not one board in all of australia of either chipset with TB3.. I searched every aussie on line tech store for *hours*. All i can find is one 370 board that has one thunderbolt port, a gigabyte board, but it's a $600 motherboard with a bunch of features i will simply disable.
The board i wanted was under 300 and perfect and i can't find one anywhere.
And that had TWO thunderbolt ports on it as well. Sigh.
there's also an asrock board that has 2 thunderbolt ports built on, and i can't find one anywhere, and it's been confirmed to work perfectly with UAD thunderbolt...
I wish avid were a bit more direct with what motherboard chipsets will work.
do you think it's worth me using my monthly support call to contact them, and tell them the exact model of board and ram, as well as the win 10 logical core limitation per process (app), or would i be wasting time expecting help with a specific motherboard question?
Look what i REALLY want is the 10 core 3.3ghz
64gb ram
it will outperform the imac 3 ghz 10 core, because it will not throttle and have adequate cooling as well as having a bit more raw power anyway.
Difference is, in AUD, to make a desktop PC with the 10 core 7900X, 64GB ram, a thunderbolt 3 299 mobo, FOUR 1TB ssd's (2 of them M2 very fast samsung, 2 sata), one 2TB 7200 RPM WD black, a 2560*1600 30" dell monitor, and even a blu ray burner (asus).. it was 6500 bucks assembled and shipped with warranty. It saves me putting it all together. All noctua fans, antec case, antex gold PSU.
To get a 10 core imac, with 64gb ram, and just a 2TB drive ( i believe it's 2x1TB ssd in raid 0 from factory)
is, drumroll:
$11, 139
The difference is mammoth.. i can buy a roadworthy used car with the price difference!
PLUS, the fact that i can disable ALL throttling in windows, disable turbo boost, and i will settle for a tiny overclock of say 3.5ghz.. so 10 cores, 20 threads at 3.5ghz permanently. No fluctuation.
I would then get a second hand HD native card and go on the HD software sub for a year..
i'd save another year, and then upgrade to HDX. *hyper excited*.
My main worry is the 10 core with windows 10 because of steinbergs findings.
See, you use HDX, which does the audio mixer processing on the card as well as many other functions.. so it might just be that this processor spike issue in win 10 with large multicore setups, only affects native.
or maybe it simply doesn't affect PT at all.
I know it affects VE pro and Cubase so far, and if i find that the other DAWs do it, then i'll hazard a guess that PT does too...
Does HDX go crazy with cpu usage when using an ultra low buffer to monitor, like core audio does?
Cheers! Thanks again so much, all your inputs are so valuable to me, as this is the single largest investment I will ever make or ever HAVE made as a single home studio user. I have to get it right the first time, i can't afford not to. :)