 Help! New 27" Imac - Dual Core Or Quad Core For My Needs..., Would the 3.33 Ghz suffice? |
 Sat 24 Oct 2009, 17:28
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Hi there community,
I have asked this question of many other people and forums but no one can give me a straight answer. I compose music using Logic Studio and all included sounds, VSTs and a lot of different libraries (EW/QL samples) with very little live recording. I want to upgrade my system (currently using a dual 2.3 Ghz PowerMac G5 with 8 GB of RAM) to one of the new 27" iMacs - definitely going to go 16 GB of RAM and a 2 TB HD, but I'm torn as to processor. I just don't know whether the 3.33 Ghz Dual Core processor will be adequate or I should wait and get one of the Quad Core i7 processors for about $500 more money, but I'd have to wait. For what I do, will the processor make a huge difference? What I've been told is that processor only matters for audio encoding (which I am not really doing a lot of) or video work/rendering... not really applicable to composing with samples using Logic. Any thoughts? Thanks! Uvee |
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Tue 27 Oct 2009, 11:47
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On a practical way, if you see that your actual use on a dual core (if you have one) tends to dispatch work evenly on both cores, the jump to quad could be beneficial as the code of your software threads smoothly.
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uvbnskoold Help! New 27" Imac - Dual Core Or Quad Core For My Needs... Sat 24 Oct 2009, 17:28
kayj_prod Whew! If you're going for 16 gb of RAM
th... Sun 25 Oct 2009, 08:39 ironhead well as long as logic is going to make use up the... Sun 25 Oct 2009, 09:24 lunar 1 QUOTE (uvbnskoold @ Sat 24 Oct 2009, 09:2... Sun 25 Oct 2009, 09:31 tweedmusic Hi There,
I would advise getting the Quad Core to ... Mon 26 Oct 2009, 08:34 houstonmusic well, no straight answers here, and you won't ... Mon 26 Oct 2009, 16:49
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