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Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:46 am
by Daim
I ordered the 2x2,26 one with 12GB and ATI Card.
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 11:44 am
by Daim
Just noticed the benchmarks about 12GB were fucked up.. maybe I'll change the order to 8GB or 6GB.
So what do those cheesy benchmarks (without any unit?!) mean exactly?
http://www.barefeats.com/nehal04.html
When we insert 8GB the 4GB are accessed by Live faster than 4GB will be accessed if we insert 6GB? Or the other way around?
And what about audio units running in Live.. can each of those access another 4 or 8GB? Then 12GB might not be that wrong.
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 1:18 am
by Zygi
live wont use more than a standard 32bit app. 12 gb of ram is an overkill...
dunno bout the 8cores though
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:12 am
by Daim
Plugins like Kontakt and Reaktor could easily use another 4GB each..
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:57 am
by Zygi
Daim wrote:Plugins like Kontakt and Reaktor could easily use another 4GB each..
oh, sry i sometimes forget that 3rd party vsts even exist :F ;P
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:34 pm
by rbro
Daim wrote:I ordered the 2x2,26 one with 12GB and ATI Card.
Me too, minus the ATI card
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:22 am
by steko
Daim wrote:Plugins like Kontakt and Reaktor could easily use another 4GB each..
Are you sure?
I thought 3rd party AUs RAM consumption is added to Lives RAM consumtion up to the 4 (3.5?) GB limit.
Anybody with Kontakt, Reaktor etc. checked this out in Activity Monitor with some big libraries?
In Logic you can go over that by using an AU host like Plogue Bidule for Kontakt & Rewire.
http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=34243
http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=36126
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:36 am
by Daim
No, I'm actually not sure. That's why I'm still considering to change my order to 6GB..
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 6:49 am
by ewistrand
steko wrote:Daim wrote:Plugins like Kontakt and Reaktor could easily use another 4GB each..
Are you sure?
I thought 3rd party AUs RAM consumption is added to Lives RAM consumtion up to the 4 (3.5?) GB limit.
Correct. It would be added to Live's RAM- plugins use the host's allocated RAM.
Your NI forum moderator,
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Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:23 pm
by Daim
Changed my order to 6GB.. now I got 2 orders and can decide by paying for one or the other.. any help or hints appreciated
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:01 pm
by rbro
Daim wrote:Changed my order to 6GB.. now I got 2 orders and can decide by paying for one or the other.. any help or hints appreciated
I'm going to keep mine as is. I can't imagine that 12GB of ram won't come in handy at some point and since I intend to keep this machine for quite a long time, I would imagine 12GB won't seem like overkill 4-5 years from now.
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 4:41 pm
by Daim
Good point, I'm going to keep mine as long as possible too.
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 5:13 pm
by steko
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 4:24 pm
by Daim
Took the 12GB..
Re: Does Live take advantage of 8 cores?
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 6:49 pm
by rbro
Daim wrote:Took the 12GB..
Me too. The wait is KILLING ME. Next week they say.......