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Good Day all,
In February I will be getting a loan to build out a new Production Music system (Running Logic Pro and Ableton Live) and am having some difficulty deciding upon the processor.
For those that don't know about music production, believe it or not, these days with Soft Synths (VSTs/AU) and Effects Plug-ins (Waves, etc.) you actually really do need a lot of processor power, the faster literally is the better.
I was thinking of a Dual Xeon solution but that is way out of my budget (given that I also need to get a dual core UAD card and their plug-ins).
So I was wondering, what do you guys recommend? I can afford an E5 2680 which I understand to be 8*2.7 (21.6 GHz total) (I am not sure what the "Turbo" is that they refer too as I haven't built a PC in a little while (life issues).
The other option is of course the i7 3970x 6*3.5 (21GHz total) which seems to be about the same GHZ total but $600 cheaper.
I am following the tonymac buying guide and will be sourcing my parts from that but I also wanted to add a few other pieces.
My goal is to have a System that boots OSX, Win 8 and Win 7 (for music backup from VSTs that aren't available for the Mac). (OSX on one SSD Win 7 & 8 on the other)
I also want to have a RAID array for data and I believe that Rocket RAID is a compatible controller for OSX (and Windows I assume). Is this correct.
Also, is it possible to get the 4GB GTX680 or is it advisable to only get the 2GB version (from the tonymac buying guide). I would prefer to be the most compatible with the least amount of fiddling necessary.
I did want to add that I am running Lion on my Toshiba Qosmio so I have some experience with Hackintosh-ing, enough to know I'd rather have the most compatible parts for the least number of headaches.
Thank you very much in advance for your help.
In February I will be getting a loan to build out a new Production Music system (Running Logic Pro and Ableton Live) and am having some difficulty deciding upon the processor.
For those that don't know about music production, believe it or not, these days with Soft Synths (VSTs/AU) and Effects Plug-ins (Waves, etc.) you actually really do need a lot of processor power, the faster literally is the better.
I was thinking of a Dual Xeon solution but that is way out of my budget (given that I also need to get a dual core UAD card and their plug-ins).
So I was wondering, what do you guys recommend? I can afford an E5 2680 which I understand to be 8*2.7 (21.6 GHz total) (I am not sure what the "Turbo" is that they refer too as I haven't built a PC in a little while (life issues).
The other option is of course the i7 3970x 6*3.5 (21GHz total) which seems to be about the same GHZ total but $600 cheaper.
I am following the tonymac buying guide and will be sourcing my parts from that but I also wanted to add a few other pieces.
My goal is to have a System that boots OSX, Win 8 and Win 7 (for music backup from VSTs that aren't available for the Mac). (OSX on one SSD Win 7 & 8 on the other)
I also want to have a RAID array for data and I believe that Rocket RAID is a compatible controller for OSX (and Windows I assume). Is this correct.
Also, is it possible to get the 4GB GTX680 or is it advisable to only get the 2GB version (from the tonymac buying guide). I would prefer to be the most compatible with the least amount of fiddling necessary.
I did want to add that I am running Lion on my Toshiba Qosmio so I have some experience with Hackintosh-ing, enough to know I'd rather have the most compatible parts for the least number of headaches.
Thank you very much in advance for your help.