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what about AMD-SEMPRON
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TRANCER
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Posted : Jan 10, 2005 16:42
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Since Amd has stopped athlon-xp and only sempron and Optron are available, can anybody please let me know If it is btter to buy a Sempron CPU for a DAW.
I would like to know more about the semron,
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sy000321
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Posted : Jan 10, 2005 20:28
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I'm not 100% sure but a SEMPRON is a regular XP+ with 2.4 GHz or less.
I've one (not called sempron because it was bought after amd started calling that) and i think is suitable for most task.
However some people might not think so... check a recent magazine and many people are buying multi-processor machines just for music production.
Of course CPU speed ain't all that matters in the performance of a PC...
for music production the performance of your soundcard and it's drivers also matter (and i'm not talking about sonic quality, just plain usage performance)
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Mike A
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Posted : Jan 10, 2005 20:53
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sy000321, when you're talking VST (or any other non-dsp format) audio performance, cpu is the most important factor for speed.
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Pavel
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Posted : Jan 10, 2005 21:21
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Sempron is the AMD answer to Intel's Celeron. Same Clock rates as Athlon but reduced cache.
I wouldn't recommend it personally in for DAW.
Get the Opteron.
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H2O
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Posted : Jan 10, 2005 21:35
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Pavel is absofuckinglutely right.
Get 64bit Opteron and lastest memory(DDR, i guess 533, 1gb and more)
Visit hardware(you goin to buy) official sites to see the сompatibility with motherboard(you goin to buy).
To get same flexibility you will need to buy two of Sempron's compared to one Opteron 64bit. |
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Mike A
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Posted : Jan 10, 2005 21:38
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Didn't they have the Duron processor for it?
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H2O
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Posted : Jan 11, 2005 00:38
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I guess Duron dead. |
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sy000321
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Posted : Jan 11, 2005 12:25
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On 2005-01-10 20:53, Mike A wrote:
sy000321, when you're talking VST (or any other non-dsp format) audio performance, cpu is the most important factor for speed.
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and you have benchmarks done with a lot of cpus and soundcards combinations to prove it? or is it just plain pub (or party) talk? |
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TRANCER
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Posted : Jan 11, 2005 12:43
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thanks everyone... I think Pavel, H2o ur right.
I will buy optron.
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sy000321
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Posted : Jan 11, 2005 12:51
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i don't know why i don't keep shut, but regarding the price of a 64 bits i think it's the best choice at the moment |
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john_c
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Posted : Jan 11, 2005 21:30
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Wait Im also deciding which CPU to buy.
Opteron at 2.2 Ghz cycle is expensive. Over $300.
Would a 1.8 Ghz cycle Opteron be faster than an Athlon 64 at 2.2 Ghz for music production? Plz shed some light. Im willing to spend at most, $250 for the CPU. Thanks guys. |
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sy000321
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Posted : Jan 12, 2005 14:16
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just don't forget that you should get a nice motherboard too and if you got enough $$$ choose one that will accept double channel rams
double channel can give a VERY BIG improvement on cpu performance, if you buy the right rams (suitable for double channeling)
remember: the speed of your system is the speed of the slowest component...
also, choose a souncard with good asio drivers
just by changing the drivers you can somethimes double the amount of vsts at once
if you're really crazy about speed get a couple of fast SCSI HDs and use them with RAID for better write/read perf. (but less reability, depending on raid mode)
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