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Old 09-29-2020, 12:48 PM
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Believe it or not, I overload the middle core due to the plug-ins on my 2 bus if I go lower than 512 (primarily CPU hungry Acustica products). I'm still working on experimenting with moving some of the load to parallel sub-busses. While my middle core overloads, the rest are very low percentage. If I run more traditional plug-ins, I can definitely run at a lower buffer, however there's some magic with these plug-ins that is hard to beat.
I was really hoping you would have better buffer settings. My AMD loves 512. @ 256 I see errors a few times a day and at 128 I can't really work. Now I'm really curious if it's the 3960x or pro tools. The 3960x seems to really crunch the crap out of most things. If I offline bounce I get between 20 and 50 x speeds but can't run at low latency. I can encode an hour long QT from H264 to prores in under a minute. So the 512 buffer seems nutz. Maybe Avid will work on the Pro Tools code and latency will fall in line with performance.
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Old 09-30-2020, 07:33 AM
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I did some very brief testing using ASIO 4 All before installing my HDX card and when running Native, it seemed like it could take anything I threw at it. Even @ 64... I'll disable my 2 bus processing today and see what happens with lower buffers under HDX.
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Old 10-01-2020, 10:26 AM
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I did some very brief testing using ASIO 4 All before installing my HDX card and when running Native, it seemed like it could take anything I threw at it. Even @ 64... I'll disable my 2 bus processing today and see what happens with lower buffers under HDX.
MAn I just tested a RME USB Babyface Pro on my system. I can run it at 64 samples!! Thats crazy. It's the HD Native and or HDX card
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Old 10-02-2020, 02:18 PM
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I'm starting a new mix today so all I've got in this session are audio tracks (without any processing) and my template which has a significant set of enabled plug-ins (aux fx and bus treatments, etc.) and I'm not having any issues playing back at 64 samples under the HDX engine.

The CPU (total) meter in PT is bouncing (rather erratically) from 6-28% during playback.
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Old 01-01-2021, 10:50 AM
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How picky is PT about Windows builds these days? Has it become relatively safe to buy a pre-built i9 desktop off the shelf or from Newegg or the like? Or do I need to comb the last few dozen pages of this thread for parts to order?
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Old 01-04-2021, 09:31 AM
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How picky is PT about Windows builds these days? Has it become relatively safe to buy a pre-built i9 desktop off the shelf or from Newegg or the like? Or do I need to comb the last few dozen pages of this thread for parts to order?
Not sure about a prebuilt PC. If it has good parts you are probably fine. i9 probably will work fine. I would make sure to get a ok graphics card. RTX 2060 seem to work well. I think the min RAM I would spec is 32gigs
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Prebuilt PCs can still be a crap shoot. The Avid recommended more expensive HPs are pretty good, but I'm still a fan of buying the best parts and taking a day to put it all together.
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Prebuilt PCs can still be a crap shoot. The Avid recommended more expensive HPs are pretty good, but I'm still a fan of buying the best parts and taking a day to put it all together. (More bang for the buck.)
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Thanks, Tom. The more I think about it, the less I like the idea of subjecting my 58 year old eyes and fingers to a full on DIY. Think I'll go for a HP Z440, which Avid specifically approves of. Xeon processors - should be sufficient for composing. 64 GB RAM, Nvidia graphics, and plenty of empty PCI slots. SSD boot drive, and I'll add pair of 2 TB SSDs for instrument samples.
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Hello everyone, infrequent but long-time follower of this thread, and it's predecessor Quadzilla thread (anyone else remember those? Man I'm feeling old...). I wanted to thank everyone who contributes to this thread by posting my recent build, finished last week, with the hope of helping others. It really is only a slight variant of DBK's July 2020 build (upgraded CPU and RAM). This replaces my old but, before canabalizing, still running GIGABYTE GA-X79-UD3, i7-3820 build from late 2012 (yes, I was way overdue for an update...):

CPU:
i9-10900K

Motherboard:
GIGABYTE Z490 VISION D

CPU Cooler:
Noctua NH-D15 SSO2

RAM:
CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 128GB (4 x 32GB) DDR4 3600 (PC4 28800)

GPU:
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti (reused from my last build)

Storage:
SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280 500GB PCIe NVMe (System)
SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe (Audio/Session)
SAMSUNG 970 EVO PLUS M.2 2280 1TB PCIe NVMe (Samples)
SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 1TB SATA III SSD (Data)
SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 1TB SATA III SSD (Utility/Downloads)
Seagate BarraCuda 1TB 7200 RPM SATA HDD (Session Backup, reused from my last build)

PSU:
EVGA SuperNOVA 750 G5, 80 Plus Gold 750W

Case:
Fractal Design Define 7 E-ATX Silent Modular

The build went as smooth as silk, it is stable and screams, and I haven't even had a chance to overclock it yet. As it is it is huge overkill for my modest demands, but considering the length of time I plan to use it I thought I'd future-proof as much as practicable. If anyone has questions please let me know. And thanks all, once again!
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