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In Reply to: RE: A 'dud' in Multi Core performance.... posted by Ivan303 on October 21, 2014 at 08:19:03
There are audio applications requiring extensive signal processing. These include sample rate conversion and digital room correction, both potentially relevant to audiophile playback. Software is available that takes advantage of multiple cores, indeed some of these programs won't run well at the highest sample rates on 2 core machines.
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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That would be doing some signal processing, I'll give you that.Seeing as the MAC Pro maxes out at 12 cores (think you can up that to 16 with an after-market Intel chip upgrade but it might void your warranty), I'm guessing your audio computer must quite a box!
I think the new MAC Mini with dual cores and Hyper-Threading (poor man's quad core) will just have to do it for me. ;-)
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No, my audio computer is not a hot box. It is a few year old core i5 with two cores. This is sufficient to perform room eq on DXD and upsample it to DSD128 for playback on my DAC, but only if no other application runs, as CPU utilization is over 50%. It is also sufficient to perform room eq on DSD64 and remodulate to DSD64 and send that to my DAC, but not to remodulate to DSD128. Also, doing room correction at DSD64 the CPU fan spins up from 1200 RPM to above 2000 RPM in the summer months and this is noisy. A faster machine that run silently would be nice to have.
I also run iZotope RX on this machine. For some restoration work it would be nice to have a machine with 64 cores or more to enable some editing functions to preview in real-time. However, this is a matter of "want" not "need". I have no doubt that computers could get a million times faster than they are today and there would still be applications that would benefit from more speed. :-)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
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