Best Core 2 Series Desktops-Results and Specs

[Superclock]

Originally Posted by albee1952

Check out this alternative
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813121314
and remember that newegg open box mobo's usually come with absolutely nothing, including drivers and backplane so you might need to chase those down on ebay.

Didn't realize it was open box, no wonder it was so cheap! So will that board work fine with the Q6600 CPU? Can I use standard SATA drives with this system? I have several drives filled with sessions.

[sdre909]

Cool test.

I got up to 300 DVERBS and just stopped there

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 Quad Core Processor LGA775 2.50GHZ 1333FSB 6MB OVERCLOCKED to 3.33GHZ
• Heatsink: Katana II CPU cooler
• Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard
• Video Card: Galaxy GeForce 8800GT Overclocked 600MHZ 512MB 2.0GHZ DDR3 PCI-E DVI-I HDCP HDTV Out Video Card
• Memory: 2 X 2GB DDR2 OCz Raper 1066
• Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB SATA2 7200RPM 32MB and same specs 500 GB 2nd Drive
• DVD/CD burner: Samsung SH-S203B SATA DVD+RW 20X8X16 DVD-RW 20X6X16 DL 18X/12X
• Case: Antec Sonata Designer 500 with Sound-deadening side and top panels
• Power Supply: Antec Neo HE430 High Efficiency 430W ATX12V V2.2 Active PFC Power Supply Modular Design up to 85% efficiency

[isyournamechris]

Finally got my new build completed, installed XP Pro and 7.4, excited to see how many D-Verbs until I got serious hardware buffer problems during playback. I'm stumped.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 (Revision -E0)
Heatsink: XIGMATEK HDT-S1283
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P
Video Card: GeForce 7300 SE
Memory: 2 X 2GB Corsair TWIN2X4096-6400C5
Hard Drive: 2x Seagate 750GB SATA2
Case: Antec Nine Hundred

[Mike Bordello]

380 Dverbs (davec 2.0)

Intel i7 920
Asus P6t Deluxe
6 gb OCZ Platinum ram (XP only sees 3)
Seagate 500gb 32mb cache SATA 7200rpm Audio
Hitachi Deskstar 120gb 7200 IDE OS
Diamond Radeon HD 3650 video card
MBOX 2


The CPU had reached about 70% but the Hard Drives are what caused PT to stop.


I'm Happy...I bet in the right hands it could go farther.

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Mike Bordello

380 Dverbs (davec 2.0)

Intel i7 920
Asus P6t Deluxe
6 gb OCZ Platinum ram (XP only sees 3)
Seagate 500gb 32mb cache SATA 7200rpm Audio
Hitachi Deskstar 120gb 7200 IDE OS
Diamond Radeon HD 3650 video card
MBOX 2


The CPU had reached about 70% but the Hard Drives are what caused PT to stop.


I'm Happy...I bet in the right hands it could go farther.

Excellent. So you combined the Dverb test with the Davec 2 test?

Can you post us a regular Dverb stat on it's own? You'll get way more than 380.

The Quad Dverb Test (From the original Quadzilla page)

Set your Open-Ended Record Allocation Limit to 10 minutes in Preferences under the Operation tab and also uncheck Session File Auto Backup prior to starting.

Make sure that RTAS Engine Ignore Errors During Playback/Record box is unchecked in your Playback Engine.

Start the computer. Create a brand new 24bit/48k Session on your audio drive for the Dverb test. Open up the system usage window in PT. Create 32 tracks. Go to your buffer setting and select 64 and then 1024(CPU usage must be 95%). Since all your tracks are still selected, hold ALT(option) and click on the record button on one of the tracks, all 32 tracks will now be in record arm mode. Hold ALT(option) and insert the Dverb on the first insert. This will create 32 Dverbs all the way across. Repeat with the next insert. You want to be able to record with as many Dverbs as you can before your computer doesnt do it anymore for 5 minutes. Keep in mind that playback only will give you a few more Dverbs than record mode.

If you can make it past the 32 or 48 mono tracks, then start adding mono Aux tracks.

This is a quick benchmark stress test that can be done in a few minutes.

If you can do one test with a buffer of 1024 and then a separate one with a buffer of 64 that would help myself and Sunburst greatly. Thanks!

Oh...and you're on 7.4 I presume?...or 7.3?

Shane

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Mike Bordello

380 Dverbs

Once we get some more confirmation on these, we might have to declare the i7 quads with a new name.

The HDK Quadzilla

I'm sure a few can sort out what "HDK" means.

Shane

[Mike Bordello]

DVERBS

405@128 samples
390@1024 samples

Intel i7 920
Asus P6t Deluxe
6 gb OCZ Platinum ram (XP only sees 3)
Seagate 500gb 32mb cache SATA 7200rpm Audio
Hitachi Deskstar 120gb 7200 IDE OS
Diamond Radeon HD 3650 video card
MBOX 2
PT 7.4

[mano111]

Is this the first PT system to ever break 400? (stock speed )

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Mike Bordello

DVERBS

405@128 samples
390@1024 samples

Intel i7 920
Asus P6t Deluxe
6 gb OCZ Platinum ram (XP only sees 3)
Seagate 500gb 32mb cache SATA 7200rpm Audio
Hitachi Deskstar 120gb 7200 IDE OS
Diamond Radeon HD 3650 video card
MBOX 2
PT 7.4

Thanks a million for posting this Mike! There is one thing we find odd. A buffer of 1024 always gets more plug-in instances over lower buffer settings. Did you post the numbers correctly for the proper buffer size? Thanks.

Amazing stats by the way!!!

Shane

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Mike Bordello

DVERBS

405@128 samples
390@1024 samples

Intel i7 920

A quick 101 refresh:

1 HD Accel Card will do 38 Dverbs.

1 HD Core card will do 28 Dverbs.

A full blown HD 7 will benchmark 256 Dverbs.

HD 3 will benchmark 104 dverbs.

HD will always have the low latency with the hardware no matter what the H/W buffer is at. So, once we start seeing our results at a buffer of 64 with the LE firewire I/O interfaces(002, 003 etc) things will get interesting. There is one other factor we'll need to test that me and Sunburst will announce soon.

It's way past time we see a real Pro Tools Native system with more I/O and without these artificial limits. Time to wake up and smell the roses.

Shane