Anyone have an i9 10, 14 or 18 core setup - what spec is working out?

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#1

Hi guys

Thinking of making a move to a higher core count later in the year and wondering if anyone can tell me the highest core chip your using on Windows 10 and how its going - is the dropout for multi cpus happening at this stage or not

  • Whats the motherboard, cooler, memory type etc

My current setup is an i7 5930x overclocked to 4.3Ghz so it’d need to be worth the upgrade I guess.

thanks guys

Martin

#2

Check this out:
https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/115000535804-Windows-10-audio-dropouts-on-multi-core-CPU-setups
https://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=117319

Single core performance can sometimes be more valuable than more cores, as all processing on a channel or individual plugins could be limited to one core. This has historically been the case with a lot of DAW:s and plugins.

I run an 8700K myself which has a significantly higher clock speed then the I9 18 core. I havn´t tested but I suspect it would beat an I9 under certain Cubase loads, and certainly for most current games and desktop programs etc. That said, the I9 would crush the competition in a multi-threaded environment. Not sure how well Cubase scales with more than 12 logical cores, anyone?

#3

I am using an i9-7900x with 10 cores given to Cubase. The advantage of 10 is that it leaves the eleventh core available to the notorious nVidia card interrupt in a way that does not glitch Cubase. nVidia seems to prefer core 0 but will settle for core 10. Cubase seems to require core 0 be included in its allotment, although I have not investigated that very far. While Cubase running alone does not justify an i9 over other processors, the advantage to me is that I can simultaneously run Cubase and various video editing programs with outstanding performance on both. It’s quite a luxury to do that as it allows me to quickly edit either the music track or the video cuts to take best advantage of both even with full resolution, un-bounced video files. In general video editors work a little better with nVidia cards than others, although that is slowly changing.

#4

Bill have you had to do anything to address the Cubase limitation of 14 logical cores with the 7900x?
https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-us/articles/115000535804-Windows-10-audio-dropouts-on-multi-core-CPU-setups