Dual core CPU's and audio editing and recording

thehootman

Hi all,
I am in the process of upgrading my PC. I have been researching into dual core CPUs.
Has anyone had any experience with them in the field of audio editing and/or recording? Do they have any real advantages over single core in this field?

Thanks.

guitar3456

I have a year old Dimension 9100 w Pentium D and it's much faster. The CPU does not get bogged down with plug ins. Even at 512 MB it was good. I'm running 2GB with Sonar Prod 5 for most work other than patches and sound samples which I use PTP to stay in line with users.

A dual core is much faster! Others have gone with AMD64 with varied results if you search the web. Most dual core users have no issues that I have heard of. But again, it depends on the user, your PC hardware and setup, back running progs, etc.

LuredMaul

I have the Amd64 X2 3800+ w/ 2G RAM SATA2 160G harddrive and ASUS A8NE mobo and I can't slow it down to a drag no mater what I'm doing...........it Rocks!

AlbertA

If your recording software is multi-threaded, then yes you are going to have an advantage. Sonar is multithreaded so you would see an improvement there.

thehootman

Thanks for the replies.
I use Adobe Audition 1.5 - is that multithreaded?
Thanks

AlbertA

Maybe. I know 2.0 is, but not sure about 1.5.

In any case you will still benefit, as the OS can do other simulataneous things while you use Adobe Audition. In other words, it really helps (wether your app is multithreaded or not) if you multitask.

BTW, which processor and motherboards are you looking at....

I'm thinking of upgrading as well...

thehootman

The pentium D 930 (3gHz, 800 mHz FSB, 2x2MB cache) and the Asus P5LD2 motherboard.
Apparently the 930 is a great chip to overclock and the people that wrote the article managed to overclock it to 4.1 gHz with the stock heatsink and fan!!

AlbertA

Do you have a link? Sounds interesting...did that pentium beat AMD in the benchmarks with that kind of overclocking?

jester700

The AMD 3800+ is an awesome OCer too, apparently. It's gonna be a hard decision come upgrade time...

thehootman

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/intel930d/
Thats the article - has multiple pages.
The reason i a have a preference for Intel at the moment is that they look like they are sticking with their 775 socket, whereas AMD are changing to the M2.