THEHAWKs Posted January 20, 2009 Share Posted January 20, 2009 when i did the test i overclocked the cpu to 4.6Ghz bus speed 225mhz rated FSB was over 4ghz and my ram was over 1000mhz running 2 hdds from a rocketraid in raid 0 activity monitor i think was more then half all 8 cores. before my core i7 i had a Skulltrail dual QX9775 even if the core i7 is a quad core it will beat a QX9775 or X9770 running at 5ghz when the i7 is only at 3ghz and where it helps for the core i7 is the triple channel memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macita Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 19 tracks stable, 20 traks unstable. Using my DAW in signature.... How many RAM needs your CORE AUDIO SYSTEM? I want make the test with my m-audio card to check if i can improve it! Ill do it soon with my macbook pro 2,5 Ghz P.S. Not Overclocked Q6600 here...so running at 2,4 Ghz. I really dont care about the power of streaming instruments, i have tons of midi hardware synths, but as i can see and compare to real mac pros... the real mac pro is better then our hackintosh! ISN'T? The question is... i must spent tons of money like the guy who posted the i7 test...look at his signature...huge amount of money.. i pref to w8 the new 8 core i7 mac pro and compare the price then...and dont waste my time to find the right setup for my hack? All is related to ...WHAT U NEED TO DO... see ya! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hg2007 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Did the Bench on my core i7 system i can run 70 Tracks 70 tracks thats awesome probably better than a mac pro One thing about the i7's though I'm guessing they can't run stock vanilla kernels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEHAWKs Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 70 tracks thats awesome probably better than a mac pro One thing about the i7's though I'm guessing they can't run stock vanilla kernels? Yep can't run stock vanilla kernel on Leopard but SnowLeopard 10.6 Vanilla works Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hg2007 Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Yep can't run stock vanilla kernel on Leopard but SnowLeopard 10.6 Vanilla works That's cool snow leopard will be a good excuse to upgrade when it's released then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macita Posted January 24, 2009 Share Posted January 24, 2009 Yep can't run stock vanilla kernel on Leopard but SnowLeopard 10.6 Vanilla works and logic works fine? post some pics pls Still dont belive 70 traks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gteles Posted January 26, 2009 Share Posted January 26, 2009 Yesterday ive installed ideneb v1.3 10.5.5, and logic studio 8.0... I can get 27 tracks... i dont have any pro sound card, for 100€ whats a good choice to use with logic? For now i dont use any input, just use my akai mpk 49 by usb, so whats a good choice just to make some tracks smoothlly... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firechild Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 After overclocking my Skulltrail rig to 3.6 ghz ( 8 core ) I could play 74 tracks. ( New WR including MacPro:s ) It is easy to overclock to 4.0 ghz too, but then the fans will run so high I can´t hear any music anyway :-D Now back to 3.2 ghz and silence... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firechild Posted March 7, 2009 Share Posted March 7, 2009 http://www.evan.se/logicprobenchmark/ Here is a very simple benchmark test. Download the zipfile located on the link above. Open with Logic 8.02. Then un-mute tracks one by one and check how many tracks your computer is able to run. Audiobuffer:256 samples will give the best results. Feel free to email your results to me, evan@evan.se The chart below is missing reports from the older dual 2x2.66ghz MacPro running 10.5.3 or higher when huge improvements in multicore handling was introduced. We are also LONGING for reports from the new Nehalem MacPro´s ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpertvision Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 http://www.evan.se/logicprobenchmark/ Here is a very simple benchmark test. Download the zipfile located on the link above. Open with Logic 8.02. Then un-mute tracks one by one and check how many tracks your computer is able to run. Audiobuffer:256 samples will give the best results. Feel free to email your results to me, evan@evan.se The chart below is missing reports from the older dual 2x2.66ghz MacPro running 10.5.3 or higher when huge improvements in multicore handling was introduced. We are also LONGING for reports from the new Nehalem MacPro´s ! that file have a bug , only the first (20 or something) tracks are playing the rest even unmuted are dead another thing , to test it better delete all the tracks just leave 1 , then start cloning that track and see how many your pc can run becouse when you mute one track that track is already taking resources of your pc i can run 26/27 tracks in my system: intel quadcore 6600 2.4 mhz asus P5Q 4GB RAM 1066 mhz 500GB sata 2 radeon 4850 1GB ddr3 all the pc is default , the osx is iPC 10.5.6 fresh install , dont have net there , and logic is version 8.0.2 and all default too e just choose the audio card in options nothing more what is the key to make screenshots? i will post them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firechild Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 The test is functional really good. You have to unmute the actual regions too using the mute tool or command "m". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotcorez Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 Can someone do a similar test with Reaper? AFAIK this has the best audio engine of any DAW http://www.dawbench.com/dawbenchdsp-x-scaling.htm I reckon we can double the track numbers! But please prove this yourselves by benching yourselves. www.repaer.fm (reaper 2.56 osx verison beta) only problem is no midi out on vst/i's Cheers, HC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted March 10, 2009 Share Posted March 10, 2009 I read some of you guys oc your cpus and get higher scores but I can´t get it to work, I´ve been trying out bios settings people with the same gear I have say work good with no luck. I´ve got a q6600 cpu the GA EP-45 DS3 and 6 gig Apacer dual channel 800 Mhz memory. It´s no big deal but it would be fun to see how much I can squeeze out of this setup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rama Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 I can get 60 tracks, with i7 920 running at 3.6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gteles Posted April 13, 2009 Share Posted April 13, 2009 i can get 24 tracks, with my setup, i've bought a Native Instruments Audio 4 DJ for djing and ive configured in logic, so for now is my main card. So without a "professional" audio card its not bad, i'm am searching about OC my cpu, maybe one of this day, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmilos Posted May 14, 2009 Share Posted May 14, 2009 24 tracks here Gigabyte P31-DS3L mobo with C2D E7300 OC @3.33 Ghz , 2 GB 800 Mhz ddr2 ram , Emu 0404 with kx drivers and 256 buffer size. Kalyway 10.5.6 (updated from 10.5.2) ,vanilla kernel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted May 19, 2009 Share Posted May 19, 2009 Updated my to 10.5.7 and lost a few tracks, also coretemps seems to go up some. Even sometimes when I do simple things that you´d think are not even close to engage all cores (could be surfing the internet or run osx86tools etc) all four (q6600 cpu) starts working and coretemps would increase. Going back to 10.5.6 as soon as I get the time to reinstall everything. Man it sucks, been searching for days to find out what´s causing this with no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpertvision Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Updated my to 10.5.7 and lost a few tracks, also coretemps seems to go up some. Even sometimes when I do simple things that you´d think are not even close to engage all cores (could be surfing the internet or run osx86tools etc) all four (q6600 cpu) starts working and coretemps would increase. Going back to 10.5.6 as soon as I get the time to reinstall everything. Man it sucks, been searching for days to find out what´s causing this with no luck. you update using apple update? maybe the update replace some kext... wait for a proper hack update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted May 23, 2009 Share Posted May 23, 2009 you update using apple update? maybe the update replace some kext... wait for a proper hack update Oh no I downloaded the combo and I´m running retail Leo and have replaced all the kexts I need. People with real macs using Logic say you should stay away from it too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jajje Posted July 8, 2009 Share Posted July 8, 2009 60 tracks with my Intel i7 unclocked @ 2,66ghz. 256 buffer size. Ram: 6gb Corsair DD3 1336 unclocked Mobo: GA.EX-UD5 Hdd: Old maxtor 300gb Soundcard: Terratex x24 fw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
victorz Posted July 11, 2009 Share Posted July 11, 2009 i Can run 29 Tracks Stable with safari open dont know if it makes a difference my setup: Intel Quad Q8300 2.5 Ghz 4GB 667 Ram Thats what system profiler says im pretty shure its running at 800mhz ATi Radeon 3780 512 MB Ideneb 10.5.6>10.5.7 Software Update Ill post later with overclocking results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tackle Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 E4200 Core2duo, Asus p5b (vanilla), 4gig 800mhz corsair xms2, m-audio delta 1010lt Cpu is originally 1.8ghz, but I'm running it at 2.83. Gets me 20 tracks! Also, recently built a computer using gigabytes ep45-ud3lr, and intel q9550 OC'd to 3.4 ghz. Using an mbox mini it got 32 tracks. Also tried a 16 core mac pro but it only used 8 cores (why?), it got 39 tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olofd Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 76 Tracks. Core i7 920 overclocked to 3.4 ghz. Can clock it to 4ghz, will try that later.. Think I will be able to run all of the tracks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starobrno1 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Been struggeling with the new Snow Leo for a week or so, managed to get it running using one of these 132 boot disc avaliable. Can´t boot without the disc so far but still. Anyway.... I get about the same amount of tracks as with 10.5.6. SL seems a bit snappier than good old Leo but for us music folks I don´t know if it´s worth the trouble. The 132 boot disc I´m using actually has some kind og dst.aml or whatever it´s called. So I don´t think if it turnes out we have to go down that track to be able to use SL that´ll gives any better performance than before. People report that even the new Logic 9 (so far anyway) can´t take full advantage of all the new stuff within SL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
animani Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Hey guys I did it and got 51 running at 256 latency. It can deal with nearly 65 without overclocking if I hit play with left button mouse not from the beggining of the loop (space bar). OC can deal with more than 70 as someone said in this post. i7 920 2.66 and GA EX58 UD5 in my case. If I overclock the system I get glitches in sound. It does not stop but put artifacts within. Geekbench. 8400. OC to 4.1 GHZ Geekbench is 11500 at 32Bits.13500 at 64 Bits. But no sound stability what so ever... I will keep on trying to overclock the system to find stability. Anyone else having those artifacts in sound when overclocking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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