Music production setup

[Lilblood904]

Hey I'm new to forms sry if I posted in wrong area. My question is this. I'm trying to build a new comp for producing music beats n etc going all out and use the comp for recording and all. Should I use a comp based on the i7 2600k or use the new sb e set up? I kno production reqs alot of CPU n ram power. So would I c a big diff going i73930k or the 4core CPU vs getting a 2600k? X79 = 4 channel ram with up to 8 slots vs duel channel ram with the z68.

[Ant B]

I don't think it's going to make a huge difference. I use an i5 2500 and 6GB ram and haven't hit a wall yet..I don't do huge orchestral compositions either, though - but I do some pretty plugin/vi/track heavy mixes

[Lilblood904]

Rly? I thought kuzz music takes alot of ram power that the quad channel ram would make it 50% better? The old gen uses dual channel ram so quad is dibble that.

[Ant B]

I mean it could make a difference but honestly I have stock ram ..stock everything except my hard drives and I have no issues. One area where it might make a huge difference is with that new playback from ram or whatever feature if you have HD or the toolkit and 10

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by Ant B

I mean it could make a difference but honestly I have stock ram ..stock everything except my hard drives and I have no issues. One area where it might make a huge difference is with that new playback from ram or whatever feature if you have HD or the toolkit and 10

Would love to see a Sandra report on your i5, and some notes on your BIOS settings. I can't get good performance out of mine, which is i5 2500K(not overclocked), Asus P8P67, 8GB of Kingston DDR3 1600 and either a GeForce 210 or ATI 5480 graphics card(with either Windows generic driver, or latest from each company)

[Ant B]

Sure I'll try to remember when I get home - but I literally only customized the hardware specs on HP.com, added an internal a usb external for data storage and did the tweaks avid/digi recommends for win7 systems and that's it. I haven't changed anything in the bios, added special performance memory or anything like that and the vid card is a cheap nvidia ?400 that barely runs bf3 smoothly in 640 lol

[Ant B]

SiSoftware Sandra

Computer
Model : HPE-510t
Workgroup : SOUNDLAB
Host Name : i5
User : Anthony

Processor
Model : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Speed : 3.49GHz
Cores per Processor : 4 Unit(s)
Type : Quad-Core
L1D (1st Level) Data Cache : 2x 32kB, Synchronous, Write-Thru, 8-way, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing
L2 (2nd Level) Cache : 2x 256kB, ECC, Synchronous, ATC, 8-way, 64 byte line size, 2 threads sharing
L3 (3rd Level) Cache : 6MB, ECC, Synchronous, ATC, 12-way, Exclusive, 64 byte line size, 16 threads sharing

Computer
Mainboard : Pegatron 2AB6
BIOS : AMI (OEM) 7.13 05/04/2011
Bus(es) : X-Bus PCI PCIe IMB USB FireWire/1394 i2c/SMBus
Multi-Processor (MP) Support : No
Multi-Processor Advanced PIC (APIC) : Yes
Total Memory : 6GB DIMM DDR3

Chipset
Model : HP Core (Sandy Bridge) DRAM Controller
Front Side Bus Speed : 100MHz
Total Memory : 6GB DIMM DDR3
Channels : 2
Memory Bus Speed : 2x 667MHz (1.33GHz)

Memory Module(s)
Memory Module : Samsung M378B5773CH0-CH9 2GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-10700U DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)
Memory Module : Samsung M378B5773CH0-CH9 2GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-10700U DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)
Memory Module : Samsung M378B5773CH0-CH9 2GB DIMM DDR3 PC3-10700U DDR3-1334 (9-9-9-25 4-34-10-5)

Video System
Video Adapter : NVIDIA GeForce 405 (16 SM4.1 1.4GHz, 1GB DDR3 1.58GHz 128-bit, PCIe 2.00 x16)

Graphics Processor
OpenCL GP Processor : NVIDIA GeForce 405 (16SP 2C 1.4GHz, 1GB DDR3 1.58GHz 128-bit)
Compute Shader Processor : NVIDIA GeForce 405 (16SP 1.4GHz, 1GB DDR3 1.58GHz 128-bit)
CUDA GP Processor : NVIDIA GeForce 405 (16SP 2C 1.4GHz, 1GB DDR3 1.58GHz 128-bit)

Storage Devices
Seagate ST31000528AS (1TB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm) : 932GB (C:) (D:) (Q:)
Seagate ST3500418AS (500.1GB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm, 16MB Cache) : 466GB (E:)
WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 (1TB, SATA600, 3.5", 7200rpm) : 932GB (O:) (P:)
WDC WD10TMVW-11ZSMS0 (1TB, USB3/SATA300, 5200rpm, 8MB Cache) : 931GB (N:)
WDC WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0 (499.4GB, USB2/SATA300, 2.5", 5400rpm, 8MB Cache) : 465GB (L:)
Generic-SD/MMC (USB2) : N/A (G:)
Generic-Compact Flash (USB2) : N/A (H:)
Generic-SM/xD-Picture (USB2) : N/A (I:)
Generic-MS/MS-Pro (USB2) : N/A (J:)
hp CDDVDW TS-H653T (2GB, SATA150, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache) : 2GB (F:)
WD Virtual CD 0730 (31.5MB, USB3) : 30MB (M:)
WD Virtual CD 070A (700.4MB, USB2) : 668MB (K:)

Logical Storage Devices
SYSTEM : 100MB (NTFS)
Protools (E:) : 466GB (NTFS) @ Seagate ST3500418AS (500.1GB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm, 16MB Cache)
Samples (O:) : 432GB (NTFS) @ WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 (1TB, SATA600, 3.5", 7200rpm)
MainBack (N:) : 931GB (NTFS) @ WDC WD10TMVW-11ZSMS0 (1TB, USB3/SATA300, 5200rpm, 8MB Cache)
PTBack (L:) : 465GB (NTFS) @ WDC WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0 (499.4GB, USB2/SATA300, 2.5", 5400rpm, 8MB Cache)
Media (Q:) : 440GB (NTFS) @ Seagate ST31000528AS (1TB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm)
System (C:) : 479GB (NTFS) @ Seagate ST31000528AS (1TB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm)
RECOVERY (D:) : 13GB (NTFS) @ Seagate ST31000528AS (1TB, SATA300, 3.5", 7200rpm)
Video Edit (P:) : 500GB (NTFS) @ WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 (1TB, SATA600, 3.5", 7200rpm)
Removable Drive (G:) : N/A @ Generic-SD/MMC (USB2)
Removable Drive (H:) : N/A @ Generic-Compact Flash (USB2)
Removable Drive (I:) : N/A @ Generic-SM/xD-Picture (USB2)
Removable Drive (J:) : N/A @ Generic-MS/MS-Pro (USB2)
My DVD (F:) : 2GB (UDF) @ hp CDDVDW TS-H653T (2GB, SATA150, DVD+-RW, CD-RW, 2MB Cache)
WD Unlocker (M:) : 24MB (UDF) @ WD Virtual CD 0730 (31.5MB, USB3)
WD SmartWare (K:) : 615MB (UDF) @ WD Virtual CD 070A (700.4MB, USB2)

Peripherals
LPC Hub Controller 1 : HP H67 LPC Controller
LPC Legacy Controller 1 : Fintek F71858DG
Audio Device : HP Cougar Point High Definition Audio Controller
Audio Codec : Integrated Device Tech 76C7h
Audio Device : 6922 High Definition Audio Controller
Audio Codec : nVidia 000Bh
Audio Codec : nVidia 000Bh
Audio Codec : nVidia 000Bh
Disk Controller : HP Cougar Point 6 port SATA AHCI Controller
USB Controller 1 : HP Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #2
USB Controller 2 : HP Cougar Point USB Enhanced Host Controller #1
USB Controller 3 : 7003 Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller
FireWire/1394 Controller 1 : VIA VT6315 Series Firewire Controller
SMBus/i2c Controller 1 : Intel ICH SMBus

Printers and Faxes
Printer : Send To Microsoft OneNote 2010 Driver (1200x1200, Colour)
Printer : Microsoft XPS Document Writer (600x600, Colour)
Fax : Microsoft Shared Fax Driver (200x200)

Network Services
Network Adapter : Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller (Ethernet, 100Mbps)

Operating System
Windows System : Microsoft Windows 7 Home 6.01.7601 (Service Pack 1)
Platform Compliance : x64

Windows Experience Index
Current System : 5.2

[albee1952]

Regarding the Sandra, what are these 2 drives doing?
WDC WD10TMVW-11ZSMS0 (1TB, USB3/SATA300, 5200rpm, 8MB Cache) : 931GB (N:)
WDC WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0 (499.4GB, USB2/SATA300, 2.5", 5400rpm, 8MB Cache) : 465GB (L:)
both are too slow for recording with good performance(but are fine for backups and archives). Also, what interface are you using? My i5/Asus setup also has a VIA firewire and it doesn't work at all with Pro Tools9 and my 003(added a Siig card with a TI chipset and that runs fine). Have you tried the Dverb2 test yet? Curious on your numbers(see the first page of the i7 thread for details on the test). Its really a basic system check and gives you a benchmark that you can compare over time to see if your system performance remains consistent.

[Dism]

Originally Posted by albee1952

Regarding the Sandra, what are these 2 drives doing?
WDC WD10TMVW-11ZSMS0 (1TB, USB3/SATA300, 5200rpm, 8MB Cache) : 931GB (N:)
WDC WD5000BMVV-11GNWS0 (499.4GB, USB2/SATA300, 2.5", 5400rpm, 8MB Cache) : 465GB (L:)
both are too slow for recording with good performance(but are fine for backups and archives).

Well both have the name "back" in their titles, so I'll assume they are backup drives.

[Ant B]

Yeah both backups and using a profire 2626 - never tried the dverb test - not going to be shattering any boundaries with a stock i5 lol