LIVE FIVE PERFORMANCE TEST - results here

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 2:18 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 51
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model - Cybercom
3) Operating System - XP home
4) CPU Make Model and Speed - Athlon 2200+xp
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know) - 1GB / it's PC2100 ram
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) - FW-410
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know) - 7200rpm

Wow that's pretty interesting!

An athlon 2200 still outperforms the fastest G4 laptop and isnt actually too bad considering it's age

what's also interesting is before I read the no peripherals bit I did the test first with a pcmcia>fw card + ext HD + USB cable modem attached and it peaked at 55 (only once or twice, mostly it peaked at 53 - but likewise the 2nd test was mostly 48-50 but very occasionally peak to 51) either way it's still pretty interesting that there's 4%age marks more with those peripherals attached

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:44 pm

1 - 34% peak (32% avg - 29% min)
2 - Laptop Acer TravelMate 6000
3 - WinXP SP2
4 - Pentium M 735 @ 1.7 GHz
5 - 512MB DDR333
6 - EMI 2|6 USB
7 - ?

No glitches.

mmarsh · Post by **mmarsh** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 3:56 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter %35
2) Dell Latitude D505
3) Windows Server 2003
4) Intel Penium M 1.6Ghz
5) 512 Megs
6) Echo Indigo
7) 4800 RPM

Notes:
* High Quality Samples ON
* Other stuff running: Outlook, Firefox, Explorer

Tuur · Post by **Tuur** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:43 pm

Tuur wrote:1 - 34% peak (32% avg - 29% min)

Did a restart of Live and now it's 30% peak. Whatever...

ztutz · Post by **ztutz** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 5:41 pm

1) CPU Meter %45
2) ShuttleX
3) Windows XP Pro
4) Intel P4 3.2Ghz
5) 1G
6) M-Audio FW410
7) 7200 sata

1) CPU Meter % in the high 30's, with a periodic peak at 64
2) HP zv6170 laptop
3) Windows XP Pro
4) Athlon 64 3800+
5) 1G
6) Novation x-station USB external
7) 7200 RPM USB external

The lappy has got either contention for the USB bus or the graphics performance killing it, but there is still a lot of headroom. (I tried adding synths until full...)

Geraldo · Post by **Geraldo** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 12:00 am

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 40%
2) iMac 2Ghz 20"
3) Tiger
4) G5 2Ghz
5) 512 MB RAM
6) Core Audio built in
7) 250 Gb SATA @ 7200rpm

It bounced around from 38 to 40%. I don't know why it would be faster than the dual 2 Ghz power mac. I think I followed the directions.

_vrsn · Post by **_vrsn** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:07 am

just did the test on the machine i've been using for my live performances over the past two years. yikes...it was totally knocked down:

1. peak at 156% / average at 143%
2. ibook g3 12"
3. 10.4 tiger
4. g3 700 mhz
5. 640mb ram
6. built-in audio
7. 20gb 4200rpm

forge · Post by **forge** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 11:59 am

forge wrote:1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 51
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model - Cybercom
3) Operating System - XP home
4) CPU Make Model and Speed - Athlon 2200+xp
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know) - 1GB / it's PC2100 ram
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) - FW-410
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know) - 7200rpm

Wow that's pretty interesting!

An athlon 2200 still outperforms the fastest G4 laptop and isnt actually too bad considering it's age

what's also interesting is before I read the no peripherals bit I did the test first with a pcmcia>fw card + ext HD + USB cable modem attached and it peaked at 55 (only once or twice, mostly it peaked at 53 - but likewise the 2nd test was mostly 48-50 but very occasionally peak to 51) either way it's still pretty interesting that there's 4%age marks more with those peripherals attached

I should also mention as someone else here said they rebooted and got a lower average, that when I removed te peripherals I also quit live then restarted when they were gone, so it's also possible this was related to the reboot like the other guy.

Danji · Post by **Danji** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:21 pm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter %35
2) NO Name PC Desktop
3) Windows XP PRO
4) AMD Sempron 3000+ (S754)
5) 512 Megs PC400
6) Sound No Name on Board
7) 7200 RPM
Audio drop outs and glitches not before 95% in "Livemeter"

A Friend of mine bought this new PC yesterday for 367Euro. We run the Performance test and i didnt belive it. The Sempron 3000+ run better than a P4 3.06H/T.

dtm · Post by **dtm** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 2:42 pm

1 ) Ableton Live CPU Meter - 18% (peaks on 20%)
2 ) VooDooPC M Class - Envy M860
3 ) Windows XP Pro SP1
4 ) AMD Athlon 64 3400+ DTR
5 ) 1GB DDR 333MHz
6 ) Mbox
7 ) 7200rpm Hatachi 60GB

Think Patrick is right about the video card making a difference.

8 ) ATI Radeon Mobility 9700 256MB

Mines about a year old too, nothing will touch their new ones in terms of speed (I think it's the way they optimize the crap out of them).

amo · Post by **amo** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 3:20 pm

1) 29 - 33 %
2) IBM R51 laptop
3) Win XP SP2
4) Centrino 1,5 Ghz
5) 1,5 Go DDR PC2700
6) Onboard soundcard - latency 12 ms
7) Not sure.... 4200 I think

I'll give another try at home with my second internal 7200 RPM Hard drive and the RME Multiface.

Best,
amo

shredded · Post by **shredded** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:12 pm

Basically, the new centrinos kick ass, and Athlon's are pretty good too. P4 clock speed is almost irrelevant..........I think the "winner" is the Pentium M, unless I'm missing something.......Funny, because I was talking to someone recently who said if I'm using a PC I'm a toy and RANTING the old schpiel about MAC this and MAC that and I was like, "I never had one cuz I could never afford one, I like my PC." Tell me how a Pentium M 1.7 Ghz is kicking a G5 dual 2.5 Ghz's ass????? HA the underdog has had his come-uppance!!!!

shredded · Post by **shredded** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:30 pm

So just to be fu**ing annoying as hell (and probably get banned from these forums under this name), I can have my revenge on all of the elitist rich kid MAC users who looked down on an urchin like myself and refused to validate my creative efforts because I was rocking my self-built PC for so long, for not being able to fit into the clique with all of the uber-trendy musiq electronique sophisticates, and becuase it feels good and is the truth....
F**K MACINTOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHA, you all wasted your money on those G5's!!!!!!!!
maybe you can take out the chips and turn them into earrings or something....

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:34 pm

Shredded-

To each his own. My Mac works for me. Your PC works for you. It's just a box.

I love my new G5. It does everything I need it to do. I do wish it was as fast as some PCs out there, though.

I for one enjoy learning about both platforms without having to endure juvenile rhetoric such as yours.

If it works for you, great. There's no need to publicize your insecurity by bad-mouthing others. It just makes you look stupid.

My opinion, for what it's worth.

shredded · Post by **shredded** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 9:52 pm

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