# The two improvements that will make me upgrade are still in the dark: CPU and HiDPI **URL:** \ **Category:** Cubase\ **Tags:** cubase-11\ **Created:** [November 14, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/the-two-improvements-that-will-make-me-upgrade-are-still-in-the-dark-cpu-and-hidpi/159047 "2020-11-14T10:39:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![snadge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@snadge](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/snadge)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 5:46pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/the-two-improvements-that-will-make-me-upgrade-are-still-in-the-dark-cpu-and-hidpi/159047/9 "2020-11-17T17:46:35Z")
> [@GlennO](#): > > Is asio guard on? Just a quick add to this, Asio guard makes no difference when Cubase will not utilise more than 14 physical cores, this is a coded limitation from god knows how long ago, so difficult to remedy, Cubase is the only DAW that has this limitation, there are plenty of threads on these very forums concerning the issue, the only way to get trouble free operation is to limit your CPU in BIOS to either disable cores or disable hyperthreading. > **[Hyperthreading/logical cores on a PC - Good or bad for modern Cubase?](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/hyperthreading-logical-cores-on-a-pc-good-or-bad-for-modern-cubase/100665/1)** > > As I understand it, some time (years?) ago the advice when using Cubase, was to disable hyperthreading (logical cores) in BIOS and use only proper hard cores. Has this advice now changed for a modern PC/Cubase 9.5Pro setup? Are logical cores now... That is a thread when the problem started to become a problem in the mainstream, high core count CPUs were becoming commonplace in custom builds especially for real time grunt, yes clock core counts also, maybe more so, but if you can run a extremely CPU intensive VST instrument with pure clock speed grunt, you can now run 36 instances of it np, using a i9-7980X, you can in every other DAW apart from Cubase, you are limited to 28. This is important stuff, multicore is the way the silicon is going, if software can’t use it, it’s going to crash and burn. Here is a thread where it becomes apparent that it is a Cubase problem. > **[Windows 10: audio dropouts on multi-core CPU setups](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/windows-10-audio-dropouts-on-multi-core-cpu-setups/91719)** > > Hello everyone, I thought it might be useful to link this KB article on the Forum, as this might negatively affect quite a few users using i7 Extreme and Xeon setups. Please, see here: Kind regards, \[Edit: Specifications of your Intel CPU can... This is my last payment to Stienberg until they fix this, my next upgrade wonga goes on AATranslator, at least I can swap projects between DAW then. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/the-two-improvements-that-will-make-me-upgrade-are-still-in-the-dark-cpu-and-hidpi/159047)._