Intel Core i5 vs. i7 - Avid Pro Audio Community

10-22-2019, 03:56 PM

ramonetl

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Re: Intel Core i5 vs. i7

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Originally Posted by Prabha

i7 is obviously better, but I do run a commercial studio everyday on an i5 6600K.
It runs smooth and solid when tracking 17 musicians and doing 7 monitor mixes plus the studio mix at a buffer of 64 samples. no hickups.
I do also mix large (+80 tracks) sessions with plenty of plugins, at a 256 buffer at most.

What OS and PT version are you running on that? Just curious where your sweet spot is.

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