What did you hear about performance problems by those intel cpus?
Is it true they are damaged?
Yes, Intel has acknowledged it .
There are plenty of 13th and 14th gen processors out there which are working just fine (we have both here in the studio).
There is a problem with the microcode on these CPU’s which allows overvolt situations to occur which can cause permanent damage. This has shown up most often in gaming and overclocking situations where the processors are run hard.
Once damaged, the units are unrecoverable and have to be RMA’d for replacement.
Intel has issued microcode updates to mobo vendors (delivered in the form of BIOS updates) which limits the voltage that the processors request, thereby preventing damage to those units which are unaffected. To be clear, if the unit has already been damaged, the microcode fix will have no effect. An RMA is required.
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Thanks to explain it in short words!
In my opinion Ryzen will be the better choice, the new 9900X seems best efficient/performance.
Best regards!
Does the problem with UAD PCIe Single, Duo and Quad cards still exist? Does anybody know? That was always something that kept me from switching from Intel to AMD.
Definitely don’t buy that one yet. It’s brand new and the performance results for gaming and productivity are a bit all over the place.
I would wait until the DAW computer builders get some time to test them and see how they stack up.
I just looked up Asus ProArt, only the earlier chipset supports TB4, which is just more bad news from Germany.
With upcoming am5 motherboards the support might be there but not the label. In other words you have to see if usb4 includes tb on that board.
Hi Mattias, just USB4 unfortunately which has kind of damaged my plans in this area because I prefer AMD to Intel and I don’t really want a laptop, simply because they are too expensive.
Definitely don’t buy that one yet
You are right man! Will wait for Black Friday at the the of this year.
They said 9900x is not build for gamers. We will see!
Thanks
Does the problem with UAD PCIe Single, Duo and Quad cards still exist?
This to know is interesting, may someone help?
What about Audio Gridder?
Just take an Intel Mini PC as a Slave and feed the Host by AudioGridder, 0.33ms seconds processing data and no Latenzy!!!
In my case will use my old i7 11700kf as an Host and the Ryzen as Slave…
Well I guess what they did with some motherboards is include a TB header and then you “just” have to pay more for an add-in card and you should be good. A bit annoying.
Not sure, but my guess is that it does. The problem was always fundamentally on the UAD side of things. The solution has to come from motherboard makers, but the problem was UAD-2 (not octo).
They make what I heard about to wait for:
What’s the problem with UAD cards?
I’m happily running a PCIe DUO and QUAD on Win 11, Cubase Pro 13 on i5-12600K
It was in reference to ryzen setups.
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AFAIK they sorted it out, so this shouldn’t be an issue anymore. If you have one of these you can easily contact your vendor and will get a new one.
I’d stick with Intel, their singlecore performance has always been better than their amd counterparts, and in the end that is the most important thing for audio performance in general.
the Intel CPU’s are fine if you don’t overclock/game with maximum BIOS settings, which TBH you shouldn’t do for a DAW anyway.
As an example in the real world DAW test i have setting my 7950x to Eco mode 105w and default BIOS settings for the RAM etc ( so undervolted etc) results in my Test project runninng 1 plugin less… yes 1 plugin less…this is a big mix test project , perhaps a VI/Kontact orchestral template maybe different. But surfice to say as a DAW user ther INtel CPU’s are fine, they still have less returns than AMD overal.
Regarding Audio gridder, yo don’t even need a second machine, installing the Host and Slave on the same machine will let you utilise your computers power as the AG plugins will run outside the Cubase process.
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What is a good motherboard combo for an i9 14th Gen at the moment