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martin808 wrote:1) 80% !!!!!
2) laptop packard bell H5 315
3) XPproSP2
4) P4 3.2Ghz 533Mhz
5) 512mb / PC2700
6) Edirol PCR-1 usb interface
7) 7200rpm

somethings wrong, thats for sure............

i see other laptops with much less specs blowing this away.
this is a dedicated DAW and its had every tweak in the book done, its never even sniffed the internet.

i have just formatted my hard drive, and done a clean windows install. i've done all the tweaks and 'always on' is set.

Live is the only program i have installed on my computer...

my cpu is now sitting around 68%
although in task manager it is saying 41%. anyone know why this is?

i've tried the new beta update but its still the same.
68% is obviously too high for this spec.

anyone know what i'm doing wrong? is anyone using a packard bell h5 315 or similar?

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % about/above 60%
2) Laptop/Desktop? SONY pcg-k315s
3) Operating System xp pro sp 1
4) CPU Make Model and Speed intel 3,06 ghz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram 1024/2700 kingston
6) Soundcard built in with asio 4 all
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed hitachi 60 gb 7200 rpm(not original)


i just can say....never SONY again....so many problems with that brand,doen´s matter dat,md,laptop....that brand is so shitty....please be beware of....

RobStrobe wrote:1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % about 60%
2) Laptop/Desktop? SONY pcg-k315s
3) Operating System xp pro sp 1
4) CPU Make Model and Speed intel 3,06 ghz
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram 1024/2700 kingston
6) Soundcard built in with asio 4 all
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed hitachi 60 gb 7200 rpm(not original)


i just can say....never SONY again....so many problems with that brand,doen´s matter dat,md,laptop....that brand is so shitty....please be beware of....

i feel the same about packard bell.

no isn´t only this test,is even the quality of that product....do you speak/read german??i can send you an article which i send to the ct magazine about this laptop...it was send to the sony workshop 3 times in 9 month...everything was shitty...starting from the dvdrom...over the firewireport....to the keyboard....oh...and i just received an call from sony supoort....cause 2 days a go the "b"-button felt of...

SO....can you read german??

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 38% (occasional spikes to 59%)
2) Desktop G5
3) 10.4.2
4) 2 x 2GHz
5) 2.5GB
6) Ozonic Firewire
7) Western Digital 10,000 RPM Raptor

hambone1 wrote:1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 38% (occasional spikes to 59%)
2) Desktop G5
3) 10.4.2
4) 2 x 2GHz
5) 2.5GB
6) Ozonic Firewire
7) Western Digital 10,000 RPM Raptor

hey you guy....this is an quiete fat result for an mac....probably the best overall....right??

Tuur wrote: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.

1 - 25% peak (24% avg)
2 - Laptop Acer TravelMate 8100
3 - WinXP SP2
4 - Centrino™ 2.0GHz (Dothan 760/2MB/533MHz)
5 - 1024MB DDR-II 533
6 - EMI 2|6 USB
7 - 5400rpm

No glitches - default windows settings (no optimising whatsoever: Wifi enabled / antispyware running / etc).

1) 49%
2) Self-built desktop PC
3) Windows XP Pro SP2
4) Athlon XP 2000+
5) 512MB
6) Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1
7) 7200rpm

Should have a new laptop arriving Monday, will be interesting to compare...

martin808 wrote:1) 80% !!!!!
2) laptop packard bell H5 315
3) XPproSP2
4) P4 3.2Ghz 533Mhz
5) 512mb / PC2700
6) Edirol PCR-1 usb interface
7) 7200rpm

somethings wrong, thats for sure............

i see other laptops with much less specs blowing this away.
this is a dedicated DAW and its had every tweak in the book done, its never even sniffed the internet.

I am running a simular system

1) 64%
2) laptop packard bell H5 315
3) XPproSP2
4) P4 3.2Ghz 533Mhz
5) 1024mb / PC2700
6) M audio firewire
7) 7200rpm

After reading the packard bell forum it appears that it is a 3.2 Ghz processor, but it will only run at 1.8 due to heating problems.

Spent most of this afternoon messing about with this to no avail.

curly polymorphic wrote:

After reading the packard bell forum it appears that it is a 3.2 Ghz processor, but it will only run at 1.8 due to heating problems.

Spent most of this afternoon messing about with this to no avail.

do you not think this may be a case of false advertising. i bought my h5 on the strength of it having a very fast processor.

I feel robbed!

curly polymorphic wrote:

martin808 wrote:1) 80% !!!!!
2) laptop packard bell H5 315
3) XPproSP2
4) P4 3.2Ghz 533Mhz
5) 512mb / PC2700
6) Edirol PCR-1 usb interface
7) 7200rpm

somethings wrong, thats for sure............

i see other laptops with much less specs blowing this away.
this is a dedicated DAW and its had every tweak in the book done, its never even sniffed the internet.

I am running a simular system

1) 64%
2) laptop packard bell H5 315
3) XPproSP2
4) P4 3.2Ghz 533Mhz
5) 1024mb / PC2700
6) M audio firewire
7) 7200rpm

After reading the packard bell forum it appears that it is a 3.2 Ghz processor, but it will only run at 1.8 due to heating problems.

Spent most of this afternoon messing about with this to no avail.

These figures are really odd.
My Toshiba P20 is 3.2ghz Hyperthreaded.
But it has at least a 3cm deep base with good quite fans and heat dispersion coils in the back.
The CPU clocks at exactly 3.19ghz fine even after 10 hours use and never seems too suffer any heat issues in general use either .
I also use an eternal FW audio drive too reduce internal laptop heat.
I'm easily getting half of what you get CPU % wise .
Go figure.

i dont know how to get the processor to run at 3.2ghz it seems to be running at 1.8 all the time. turning hyper threading on or off seems to make very little difference.

1) 39%
2) Toshiba Satellite 2450 (Laptop)
3) Windows XP Home SP2
4) Pentium 4 Northwood 2.66GHz
5) 512MB PC2100
6) SoundMAX integrated audio
7) Toshiba 5400rpm

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % -- bounces, but peaks around 65
2) Laptop/Desktop? Sony Vaio Laptop
3) xppro, sp2
4) p4m, 2.0
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram --- 512
6) Soundcard -- yamaha soundcard
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed ---- 5400


i hate this sony for music, and my next one will not be a sony.

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 30-33%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model - desktop Abit NF7 with WD caviar HDD for OS
3) Operating System - Windows XP Pro SP2
4) CPU Make Model and Speed - AMD XP2400 Mobile Clocked @200x12=2400 This is about what a AMD XP 3400 would be.
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram Kingston Dual DDR400 running at 800Mhz
6) Soundcard RME Hammerfall DSP with the multiface breakout box with a buffer of 256 samples
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed 7200rpm