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48 % 1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % (if it bounces around, please list the peak)
Compaq R4000 2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model
Windows XP Pro (Fresh Install) 3) Operating System
AMD Athlon 4000+ 4) CPU Make Model and Speed
512RAM 5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know)
ASIO4ALL 6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?)
5400RPM 7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)


Hrm.. as the post above mentiond... something is deffinatly wrong here.. I've just done a fresh install of XP Pro and updated all the drivers. I have another stick of 512 coming today, but I have a feeling it wont' make that much of a difference.

[quote="Fingers"]1) 37%
2) Apple iMac G5 20" Rev B
3) OS X 10.4.1
4) 2Ghz G5
5) 1.5Gb DDR400
6) Edirol FA-101 Firewire
7) 7200rpm

Would someone mind explaining what is "Rev B"?

treysmith wrote:48 % 1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % (if it bounces around, please list the peak)
Compaq R4000 2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model
Windows XP Pro (Fresh Install) 3) Operating System
AMD Athlon 4000+ 4) CPU Make Model and Speed
512RAM 5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know)
ASIO4ALL 6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?)
5400RPM 7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)


Hrm.. as the post above mentiond... something is deffinatly wrong here.. I've just done a fresh install of XP Pro and updated all the drivers. I have another stick of 512 coming today, but I have a feeling it wont' make that much of a difference.

Anyone have any ideas?.. i've talked to tech support and they've said there are no known problems w/ the AMD 4000+ at the moment. I've set the battery to always on, actually even disabled battery management in device manager. Also tried speedswitchXP.

AdamJay wrote:set power management to ALWAYS ON.

Thanks.
One of the first setting adjustments I made.

Again, this is the third laptop that I've set up for music production. The other two were both Intel P4's with less RAM that got way better performance results.

After reading so many good things about AMD64's I thought I would give it go with one of those machines.

I'm still baffled.

aleeann wrote:

AdamJay wrote:set power management to ALWAYS ON.

Thanks.
One of the first setting adjustments I made.

Again, this is the third laptop that I've set up for music production. The other two were both Intel P4's with less RAM that got way better performance results.

After reading so many good things about AMD64's I thought I would give it go with one of those machines.

I'm still baffled.

I just contacted Compaq (i've got the same laptop as you), the tech support guy told me he has heard of no problems w/ the 4000+.

Sounds like you and I are in the same boat. I'm actually running 2gb of RAM and using Windows XP Home. 45% is about my peak and I'm certainly not happy about that.

Anybody out there have suggestions?

treysmith wrote:48 % 1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % (if it bounces around, please list the peak)
Compaq R4000 2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model
Windows XP Pro (Fresh Install) 3) Operating System
AMD Athlon 4000+ 4) CPU Make Model and Speed
512RAM 5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know)
ASIO4ALL 6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?)
5400RPM 7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)


Hrm.. as the post above mentiond... something is deffinatly wrong here.. I've just done a fresh install of XP Pro and updated all the drivers. I have another stick of 512 coming today, but I have a feeling it wont' make that much of a difference.

aleeann wrote:Sounds like you and I are in the same boat. I'm actually running 2gb of RAM and using Windows XP Home. 45% is about my peak and I'm certainly not happy about that.

Anybody out there have suggestions?

treysmith wrote:48 % 1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % (if it bounces around, please list the peak)
Compaq R4000 2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model
Windows XP Pro (Fresh Install) 3) Operating System
AMD Athlon 4000+ 4) CPU Make Model and Speed
512RAM 5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know)
ASIO4ALL 6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?)
5400RPM 7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know)


Hrm.. as the post above mentiond... something is deffinatly wrong here.. I've just done a fresh install of XP Pro and updated all the drivers. I have another stick of 512 coming today, but I have a feeling it wont' make that much of a difference.

I went through every process running and deleted it one by one (except for the critcal system processes) and the CPU Meter stayed the same. So I don't think it's a process running that's conflicting with computer.

Someone mentioned a bus speed problem due to the new PCI EXpress video card in the R4000's. I'm not sure how that would effect the CPU usage, but it's deffinatly one of the major changes from the R3000 to the R4000. I'd like to see what some benchmarks are for an R4000 with something like a 3700+ in it. To see if it's something to do w/ the processor or something else in the laptop.

10.4 results:

1) 55-56% peak 58%
2) PB G4
3) Tiger
4) 1.25
5) 1 GIG
6) Standard
7) 5400

i'm obviously not going to be doing any major, track intensive
projects on this lappy. that's what my AMD64 will handle or whatever else
AdamJ recommends.

treysmith wrote:Someone mentioned a bus speed problem due to the new PCI EXpress video card in the R4000's. I'm not sure how that would effect the CPU usage, but it's deffinatly one of the major changes from the R3000 to the R4000. I'd like to see what some benchmarks are for an R4000 with something like a 3700+ in it. To see if it's something to do w/ the processor or something else in the laptop.

There's a long thread on Nuendo forum, I read some time ago, about poor DAW peroformance of chipsets with PCI-express. Especially Nforce 4 for AMD seams to perform really poor compared to older Nforce 3 chipset with same CPU.

very interresting... i wasn't aware of that.. Hopefully some chipset driver support will come out and solve the problem.

Could this be a probable solution or am I way off???

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_audio_4.57_win2kxp

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_winxp2k_6.53

Strangely enough, after installing a 512MB of PC3200 ram, i'm not getting 19%-20%.... I'm assuming for some reason the laptop works better with PC3200 ram. Would that be because the 4000+ is dual channel?

AJS Music wrote:How did your 500MHz PB perform?

Pretty much the same. The meter went straight to some astronomical number and the speakers made a kind of crunching noise with the occasional buzz. I stopped trying pretty quickly.

plainclothes wrote:Would someone mind explaining what is "Rev B"?

Rev B is the second version of the imac g5 - the first version was the 1.6 or the 1.8, the second version is the 1.8 or the 2.0.

So the powerbook G5 apple announces next month after I finally gave up and bought an imac will be a Rev A...

aleeann wrote:1) 45%
2) Compaq Presario R4000
3) WinXP Home
4) AMD64 4000+
5) 2gb ram
6) Edirol UA-25
7) 5400rpm

With fingers crossed (Updated numbers):

1) 20%
2) Compaq Presario R4000
3) WinXP Home
4) AMD64 4000+
5) 2gb ram
6) Edirol UA-25
7) 5400rpm