MrMacMan Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Hey Guys, The tittle says it all - I was under the impression that logic runs on quad core atleast optimized to do so. But the new E8400 is fast and would out perform quad in many other apps. What do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bongfury Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Couldn't give you a real world answer as I dont' have an E8400, although I can confirm that logic does use all 4 cores of a Q6600 and it's possible to get an overclock of 3.6ghz on air with the G0 stepping CPU, prolly more if you want to get really geeky and waste some good tune writing time.. I'd guess that the Q6600 will kick an E8400's batty providing at least 25% extra headroom, but it is just a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMacMan Posted February 4, 2008 Author Share Posted February 4, 2008 Yeah I know logic will take use of the 4 cores but none of the plug-ins will and I use quite a lot of them - unless any one can prove me wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_stick Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 doesn't matter if your plugins don't use all the cores, if, like you say, you use a lot of them, say 16 plugins on 4 cores will run efficiently, faster, than 16 plugins on 2 cores… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bongfury Posted February 4, 2008 Share Posted February 4, 2008 Not quite sure where you heard that MrMacMan, but as far as I can see plugins do use the four cores whether they're logic's native or third party AU's (as long as they're are opened within logic that is?!?), one of the quick tests I did just after getting everything up and running.. y'know just to see just how far I could push my rig (as you do with a new toy) was to open just four audio tracks, each with instances of guitar rig in high quality mode and 6 instances of space designer using a really long convolution preset (don't remember which one), then I just kept on whacking more and more guitar rig FX/cabs etc into the presets (in the guitar rig instances) till all I could hear was pure white noise (indicating it had pretty much maxxed out), can't tell you how much it could take in any scientific measure but it took a long time and a lorra lorra FX to get it to max out, this was all at 2ms latency I might add .. that pretty much kerbed my curiosity and I decided it was indeed a fecking beast way beyond my expectation (I'm very power conscious and have been using 4 PC's to complete projects in the past) anyways.. during that test, there were four rows on logic's CPU indicator.. 3.5 of which were illuminated, the last one fluctuating.. which indicates to me that the plugin's were using all the cores and the 25%-50% of the last core was somehow reserved, possibly by OS processes?, anyhow that doesn't bother me at all as it seemed having that bit of extra overhead kept the OS and logic fully responsive and stable (just as if there was nothing going on in logic at all), ever tried stopping cubase SX versions on a PC when you hit max?.. had none of that kak at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooD Posted February 15, 2008 Share Posted February 15, 2008 Just get a Q9450 when released. And definetively you are gonna want a quad core over a dual core any day for audio applications. Logic and most audio apps are some of the application which takes the most benefit from multicore cpus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiGnO Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Just get a Q9450 when released. And definetively you are gonna want a quad core over a dual core any day for audio applications. Logic and most audio apps are some of the application which takes the most benefit from multicore cpus. I agree. Maybe not for now, but 4 cores will be used by most of the software in the future. It would be good to think about it in the long term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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