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Old 08-20-2020, 01:26 AM
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At the moment I’m running ProTools10HD with a magma chassis on a Mac Pro 3.1 it’s a 2 x quad core at 2.8. Now I’m thinking of changing the studio Mac to a 5.1 and I’ve got 2 in mind the first one is

6 core 3.46 processor speed

And the second one is

12 core 3.02 processor speed

Now I know ProTools10HD is old but I’m stuck in my ways and don’t want to change from this. The advice I’m after is what one will give me the better performance??


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Old 08-20-2020, 02:12 AM
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Obviously the 12-core, but to be able to use all those cores your software need to handle it. If you use something that requires single-core performance, then 6-core will be faster, but I would guess not so much than it looks like from just looking at gigahertz.
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Old 08-20-2020, 02:14 AM
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So the 6 core is £550 and the 12 core is £600 which one would you choose to buy??


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Without any more information, I'd take the 12-core
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Old 08-20-2020, 09:21 AM
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This is the spec of the 12 Core



And this is the spec of the 6 core




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12-core has way better GPU, worth more than 50 price difference


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At the moment I’m running ProTools10HD with a magma chassis on a Mac Pro 3.1 it’s a 2 x quad core at 2.8. Now I’m thinking of changing the studio Mac to a 5.1 and I’ve got 2 in mind the first one is

6 core 3.46 processor speed

And the second one is

12 core 3.02 processor speed

Now I know ProTools10HD is old but I’m stuck in my ways and don’t want to change from this. The advice I’m after is what one will give me the better performance??


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Do you use a lot of vi's? If so the 12 core will do slightly better than the hex core. If you look at my profile page for my system specs you'll see I have the 6 core 3.46GHz cpu version. Does quite well with PT 2019.6 and so should be amazing with your older OSX & PT 10. You just won't be able to really use all the possible ram you could put in the machine - unless you have VEPro


And therein lies the rub - get VEPro and you should really have a great system on a budget.
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To be honest I don’t use that many VI. Slate, Ezdrummer and Xpand are used the most.


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Whatever, it is a ni-brainer already. For 50 more you get way better GPU and more memory


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But with PT10 unless he's running VEPro the extra ram doesn't mean anything. And really there's not THAT much extra usable ram in a 12 core to begin with unless you move to a more modern OSX.
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