What's the best computer setup for Xite-1?
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 4:26 am
Reading through comments here on the Z, I'm encouraged to upgrade the asus p5q-e, bought at the release of Xite-1, running a 2.3Ghz core 2 quad intel 8gb ram.
Seeing that after Skylake there will be no more support for os older than win 10 was enough of a prompt. I'm currently running Win7 32bit and will probably stay with it, primarily to use the sequencers in modular IV and keep functionality of the Scope environment but also to enable the use of the current outboard gear which doesn't have and won't get win10 drivers
There are a few complaints with the current setup which I'm hopng a new setup will resolve in that with the more recent usb midi devices I experience drop outs in the midi data and glitches and pops in the audio playback from Sonar as projects get more complicated.
The processor/motherboard recommendations on the Z appear to be for pci cards and the two Pulsars will stay in this current machine where they work well.
As well as an Xite-1 it'll need to run a firewire Pacarana, Ableton, sample modeling instuments, usb 2 for the external gear
And here's where I get confused...
Should the cpu be i7 Skylake 5790 or 6700, or i7 5775c
Socket 1151, 2011 or 1150
Chipset Z97 or Z170, H170
Which RAM?
Which HDD?
Which SDD?
What else needs to be taken in to consideration?
Experinces seem very varied on which is currently the best setup, perhaps I'm reading in to it all too much, definitely not reading enough, but still I'm wondering, what is the best computer for Xite-1?
Any answers greatly appreaciated
Cheers
D
Seeing that after Skylake there will be no more support for os older than win 10 was enough of a prompt. I'm currently running Win7 32bit and will probably stay with it, primarily to use the sequencers in modular IV and keep functionality of the Scope environment but also to enable the use of the current outboard gear which doesn't have and won't get win10 drivers
There are a few complaints with the current setup which I'm hopng a new setup will resolve in that with the more recent usb midi devices I experience drop outs in the midi data and glitches and pops in the audio playback from Sonar as projects get more complicated.
The processor/motherboard recommendations on the Z appear to be for pci cards and the two Pulsars will stay in this current machine where they work well.
As well as an Xite-1 it'll need to run a firewire Pacarana, Ableton, sample modeling instuments, usb 2 for the external gear
And here's where I get confused...
Should the cpu be i7 Skylake 5790 or 6700, or i7 5775c
Socket 1151, 2011 or 1150
Chipset Z97 or Z170, H170
Which RAM?
Which HDD?
Which SDD?
What else needs to be taken in to consideration?
Experinces seem very varied on which is currently the best setup, perhaps I'm reading in to it all too much, definitely not reading enough, but still I'm wondering, what is the best computer for Xite-1?
Any answers greatly appreaciated
Cheers
D