This motherboard is the cap & trade special....
Massive power to run 17GB RAM templates for Rompler Room finatics.
Many composers are using a Mac and 3-4 PC slaves, this would be more efficient.
Since I use everyone else's power, I could care less as long as it's their dime.
Even with the i7 W5570 Laptop using SSD's the battery life is 1 hour, and the laptop I recently priced is 5400 USD !!!! But this a serious investment and only worth buying if you actually plan on making money with it.
The above motherboard is actually useful for one reason, running a large RAM footprint.
Running a giant template for one pass recordings or playback of an Orchestral Mockup is achievable for a decent price only because of the ability to assign cores, and 12 DIMM's of 2GB DDRIII RAM. The 4GB DIMM's are extremely expensive and impradtical to use at this point.
The 8 core Mac I get to witness in use hardly uses the 8 cores.
This mobo is just a much cheaper alternative to buying the Mac OctaCore.
IMHO it's a showboat that is unecessary.
Using Vienna Ensemble 3.0 one can customize his performance by purging samples that won't be needed, and deleting those God awful effects that chew up a CPU.
My idea is that a laptop could handle this using eSATA drives, or a single motherboard that packs 6 x 2GB DIMM's for 12GB worth of RAM.
The trick is the actual template being used more efficiently.
Most of these giant libraries are hardly used but are a hassle to purge and program. I don't have a problem with that, and if I was using a template that was part of a certain production where you knew which parts could be deleted are used the same way every night, I could swing this w/ a single Quad core W5570.
Deleting all of those worthless IR's and false mic positions is a snap. Hardware reverb and dozens of M/S EQ's for custom creation of depth, which is what these quacky mic positions are anyways.
The below config is perfect for a well designed rig and isn't too overly expensive, and the 4 cores would be better used. 8 cores never went higher than 10-15% with effects ( yecchhh ) and Molasses enabled. So I watched this beast of a machine impress all of the children but I was thinking of a work around the whole time.
Guys who use Scope cards and their effects or hardware based effects can easily do what the OctoCore Macs can do. The guys who just load the entire libraries and use the effects are lazy, and talk themselves into believing that the effects are good so trhat don't have to do much work. It's a;; about speed and workflow and cutting the project cue time in half.
Understandable too. Since I wouldn't be on a deadline but rather the best quality sound I could achieve, the extra effects, cores and Molasses would be purged from my project.
I love that word purged....It's very suitable sounding, and gives the impression that the data being purged is wasted FAT and worthy of elimination.
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