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I'm getting 26-28%.

Stats are:

Win XP SP2
Live 4.0.3
Althlon XP 2800+
1gb DDR
1 40gb 7200
1 80gb 7200
On-board audio (waiting for my new soundcard to show up. I'll rerun the file then)

27%
XP SP1
4.0.3
Athlon [email protected]
1GB Corsair TwinX DDR
160GB 7200
80GB 7200
180GB 7200
Digidesign 002 rack

I previously wrote wrote: 1) 37% (averaged around 33%)
2) Gericom Smart Power Notebook
3) Windows XP Home (SP1)
4) P4 3.05GHz HT (Desktop Replacement) 512Kb L2
5) 1024MB Ram, DDR-SDRAM PC-2700
6) Edirol FA-101
7) 4200rpm HD (I think)

A bit disappointing...

Tried switching XP to Standard as per Spacerboy's suggestion in another post. Unfortunately made no difference

However, first test was 4.01. Re-tested with 4.03. Better results as follows:

1) 30% (averaged around 27-28%)
2) Gericom Hummer Notebook (aka Uniwill 760INO)
3) Windows XP Home (SP1)
4) P4 3.05GHz HT (Desktop Replacement) 512Kb L2
5) 1024MB Ram, DDR-SDRAM PC-2700
6) Edirol FA-101
7) 4200rpm HD (I think)

AJ-427
i didn´t mean the cpu meter in ableton, i was talking about the cpu meter within winXP in the task manager....
ableton doens´t measure the systems cpu usage!!!!

cheers, spacy

thanks for the results people... keep them coming, new graph next week!

Spacerboy wrote:i didn´t mean the cpu meter in ableton, i was talking about the cpu meter within winXP in the task manager....
ableton doens´t measure the systems cpu usage!!!!

Sorry, meant that as a general performance improving point with FA101 rather than this test specifically.

just want to check everyone with win XP has their power save settings off - some of the PC results dont seem to add up

25%
XP SP1
P4 3.2 Extreme Edition, 800mhz bus
Abit IC7-Max3 (canterwood)
1GB OCZ PC4000 2-3-3-6
M-Audio Delta1010
7200 RPM 8MB SATA

25%
XP SP2
Pentium M 1.6ghz, 400fsb
Dell 600m
512 266mhz ram
Internal Soundcard
4500 60gb harddrive

It took me a while to figure out the winxp speedstep settings thing. I downloaded speedswitchxp, so it worked fine. I am happy with my performance. I was running a couple other things while this was going, but it wasn't my fault. I used the demo or Live, since I can't afford it5 yet. Not after this big purchase.

I am glad to contribute. I really like my new laptop.

Upgraded from AMD 3200+ (28%) to:

XP SP1
AMD FX-53 SKT939 - (20%)
Custom Built
1024mb Corsair Twinx 3200llpt
Digidesign 002 firewire
7200rpm 180gb IDE Hitachi 8mb Buffer

hi all,

i just did that peformance test as described.

here are the specs:

1) 29%

2) Desktop Intel D 865 perl

3) W2K + SP3+SP4

4) 2,8 GHz Intel FSB 800 L2 512k

5) 4x 512 MB 400 MHz DUAL DDR PC 3200

6) Motu 828mkII

7) 20 GB SCSI HD

1, 4.0.3--> 23%-26%
2, Custom PC
3, xp / sp1
4, AMD Athalon 3000+ ASUS A7V8X
5, 1.5 gig DDR 333
6, RME HDSP 96/52
7, serial ata 7200 seagate baracuda

if anybody can suggest how i can significantly improve on this,
they will recieve the prize....

1) 66%
2) Apple iBook G4 14"
3) Mac OS X 10.3.3
4) 1.07 Ghz PowerPC G4, 512 KB L2 Cache
5) 512 MB DDR SDRAM
6) Built-In Audio, CoreAudio Driver
7) 4200 RPM, 40GB

dpel wrote:1, 4.0.3--> 23%-26%
2, Custom PC
3, xp / sp1
4, AMD Athalon 3000+ ASUS A7V8X
5, 1.5 gig DDR 333
6, RME HDSP 96/52
7, serial ata 7200 seagate baracuda

if anybody can suggest how i can significantly improve on this,
they will recieve the prize....

Upgrade to xp sp2, I went from 28 to 25 percent when I upgraded, sooo it's a 10 percent speed increase

Peaked at 109%.
Hovered around 94-98%.
Now I'm depressed.

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % -- 109%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model -- Apple B&W G3/350 w/XLR8 G4/600
3) Operating System -- OSX v10.3.5
4) CPU Make Model and Speed --G3/350 upgraded to XLR8 G4/600
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram -- 768 MB PC100
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) -- Griffin iMic, USB
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed -- 7200 RPM, IDE, IBM Deskstar, 8MB, 120GB


Dave