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Intel i7
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:24 am
by fidox
Hi,
soon i'm getting Intel Core i7 with hyperthreading technology.
What do you recommend , to leave hyperthreading enable or disable for scope (5.1) + cubase + vst system + windows 7 32bit?
What makes difference ?
Is there any kind of speed improvement while enabled or disabled and ofcourse how's with stability ?
Thanks for any kind of experiences or opinions,
Best,
Matej
Re: Intel i7
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:44 am
by peksi
As a tech person I would go for the latest and greatest 64 bits instead of 32 bits, for future proofness too. 64 bits Cubase / Scope 5.1 / Windows 7 works fine with me.
On hyperthreading my personal experience was that disabling it increased legacy PCI performance.
This is the official quote on the subject:
http://sonic-core.net/joomla.soniccore/ ... 56&lang=us
Re: Intel i7
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:56 am
by fidox
thanks for your reply and link you send me, usefull
Well, i'm using too much VST instruments, which doesn't support 64bit, some will never, but i'll think about 64bit next time,
i will satisfy my needs for now
Best,
Matej
Re: Intel i7
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:09 am
by garyb
32bit is fine for most.
hyperthreading doesn't do anything for realtime audio. the virtual core's precesses must be calculated by real cores...
Re: Intel i7
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 12:41 am
by fidox
does this option in bios AHCI or IDE has any improvements or which is better to choose while formating hdd ?
Re: Intel i7
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 2:18 am
by garyb
both work about the same, though ACHI is better theoretically.
if it's a SSD, i always use ACHI, if it's a regualr HDD, i ususally use ide.