New PC build. Hopefully for good this time :)

[tlaskows]

I had 3 Scope cards...

[tlaskows]

Boys,

My new chip is here. All the way from Japan in 2 business days. How is that even possible? My Yamaha ROMs that were shipped 3 weeks ago and are coming from the States are still not here. And there's is no tracking number or anything. I'm just gonna send them back right after they get here. Japan is a few miles further from Canada than the US is. So someone made a mistake. But that's besides the point. I am mildly upset.

Here's the chip:



What do you guys recon? It's an engineering sample. So if it dies after a year or two (which it wont), it's still a good investment. I paid around 400 USD for it. It's a Xeon E5-2690 v3. Looks fast on paper.

Cheers,

-Tom

[Nestor]

Engineering sample? In which way, you mean it was one of the pilot first builds samples of these kind of xeons?

[tlaskows]

I think Intel sends these chips for people to test. The specs may a bit different than the actual release chip but it will be the same speed and same amount of cache and all.

I got it to boot, just not happy that the power switch on a brand new 200$ case doesn't work. Ahm, the most essential component of the case wasn't tested?

-Tom

[fra77x2]

Your struggle against the "machine" is kind of educating.

I can't imagine your disappointment
if after all this endeavor you encounter any clicks when "diva" tries to create a 9 voice patch.

Poor Roland how did you manage to design synthesizers like JP8080 18 years ago?

10 whole voices and what voices....

[tlaskows]

No,

I have the worst luck in the world. I fixed the switch. As I was taking apart the case the front part of the top panel came off. Tested the switch without it, was fine. Put that part back on and it's fine. So something about how they assembled it made it pushed in all the time. It didn't even click when I was pushing it before, now it does.

If diva can overload a 12 core CPU, we have a major problem

-Tom

[fra77x2]

A friend of mine has a 8 core mac and you know it never uses all these.

My 4 core with Xite offers like 20 times more processing power and without a glitch.

Do you know that, how a audio project is designed helps the program to address the threads better?

If you try to sent "everything everywhere" you create so many connections that the program
is forced to put the processes on a single core.

And you know what happens when a single core goes to 70% for an example...

Don't blame your luck.

[tlaskows]

No, I am not talking about this computer.

I could give you a lot of examples that have nothing to do with computers.

I am not blaming my luck, I am just telling you that I have bad luck. I don't think I need to prove anything.

Let's regroup and get back on track.

Yes, Sonar loads the 1st core the most, nothing you can do about that. But that is NOT the issue. All the other cores were evenly loaded.

-Tom

[tlaskows]

Aye,

Spent at least 30 minutes on the phone with Asus to figure out why my chip takes 5 minutes to start booting. Told me to disable Fast Boot in bios which is on by default. Boots right away every time

-Tom

[tlaskows]

I hate to prove Mr. Right wrong, but this chip is performing very well. Stock settings, no tweaks in the bios, because they seem to cause the computer not to boot.

3 Divas at 6 voices each + 1 at 8 voices in divine mode. Some effects on top. Addictive drums playing a loop and I can still play my DX7 live with an effect added on it. Oh yeah, it barely touches 50 degrees after playing the same loop for hours.

I would like to know how people get 16 x 16 poly Divas on a 16 core Xeon. Maybe they forgot to turn on the unison mode on.

I also don't understand how they got their chips running at double the speed when I kick up the bus frequency just a notch and my bios says overclocking failed.

Cheers,

-Tom

[fra77x2]

Is it still working?

[tlaskows]

Oh crap,

You're right.

I got one of these instead that burns in less than a second when you take off the heatsink. That will teach me not to get those chips again :lo:

[fra77x2]