Quad Core vs 8 Core vs ?

[rob fetters]

I apologize: I got very busy and never followed up with a report, in case any of you helping hands are paying attention. 9 weeks in with my 6-Core, everything is working great. I don't think I've crashed DP in a month, even when I stupidly ran a playback while instantiating a VI, or edge editing, etc. I just started working at 88.2/24 and that's cool, too. My software seems to like its new home. DP 7.22? Wow. I can't complain about anything.
Yes I can: It's too damn cold in Cincinnati right now.

[HCMarkus]

Sounds like a Happy New Year! Glad it is working well.

Have you managed to push the 6-core to date?
Are you seeing balancing across multiple cores in Apple's Activity Monitor?

Sincerely, Still jealous (but not of your weather) in San Diego

[VitcoMusic]

As a DP user, when is better to have more cores as opposed to faster processor speed? I normally use many VIs (Stylus, Mach Five 2, etc) as I build many MIDI tracks, and seldom use more than 4 to 6 audio tracks. It's been my understanding that more cores is better when running multiple VI's. Is this the case?


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[HCMarkus]

As a DP user, when is better to have more cores as opposed to faster processor speed? I normally use many VIs (Stylus, Mach Five 2, etc) as I build many MIDI tracks, and seldom use more than 4 to 6 audio tracks. It's been my understanding that more cores is better when running multiple VI's. Is this the case?

Given equivalent processor speed, more cores is better. On the other hand, I'd take a four core 3 gHz machine over an eight core 1 gHz computer. Ther have been a number of discussions on this board on this point... I think the general consensus is additional cores don't simply multiply processing power; i/e, going from two to four cores won't double total computing power due to inefficiencies in moving data from core to core.