Why DSP?

[dawman]

Here's my latest specialty rig where I have the XITE-1 making sure my CPU never sweats.
Using an ASRock Z97 with a single storage device, a Samsung XP941 512GB, I can have the

OS+Apps and streaming all on the same drive since thetransfer rates and access times smoke my old SATA III SSDs.
I get 1.2GBps w/ 110,000 Random IOps.
The new i7 4790 isn't even needed.
6 x instances of Kontakt and 12 Instrument Banks all with NCW optimized instruments, a VB3
organ, 2 x instances of PianoTeq 5 and I never go above 5% for more than a split second,
all 8 x cores are begging to be used.

This is a 1U rig w/ a 260 watt PSU, just a HeatSink on the CPU that never goes above 33C.

I get a laugh out of watching my friends with 12 x cores showing 35-45% @ 256 samples/44.1k

and still having troubles with audio pops and clicks and dozens of CPU killing reverbs, EQ per channel, Bus Compressors, yadda, yadda.

They don't know what they're missing.

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[dante]

I dont get the impression that the i7 4790 is anything overly special. I dont think Im getting a lot more juice out of it than my old quadcore.

I can tell by the evil combinator curse. As soon as Combinators came into Reason a few years ago, commercial sound designers have been packing them to the hilt with 20 or 30 devices in each. First thing I do is make lite versions of thier presets, stripping out reverbs, drawbar oscillators, splitters, thors etc that aren't required. This is the best way to get rid of the clicks that occur when the CPU performance monitor in cubase hits the red at 48Khz.

[dante]

I don't get the impression that the i7 4790 is anything overly special. I don't think I'm getting a lot more juice out of it than my old quadcore.

Actually, I retract this statement, I had simply forgotten to tune ASIO setting in DAW. Now, with the following settings, I am getting to run much more plugs etc. in Reason and Kontakt than ever before, so I'm happy with the i7 4790

Cubase AIO settings

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[soren_jepsen]

Hey dawman, any chance of a picture of that 1u rig?

[jksuperstar]

Or basic parts list (case/MB/DDR/CPU)

[dante]

Hey dawman, any chance of a picture of that 1u rig?

+1 - would like to see that

[petal]

Yeah Dawman - Show us some skin baby!