Audio Editing (Cubase, Fruity Loops etc..) - i5 Vs. i7

[Omga4000]

Hello

Is there any good in purchasing an i7 in this case?
Would it be better to invest the money in an SSD? Will it contribute to such programs?

Thank you,
Omga4000

 

[cmi86]

God yes buy the SSD for an audio machine. You will thank yourself when loading massive lossless files in seconds vs minutes. Pulling tracks, on the fly editing everything will be greatly improved with an SSD.

 

[Omga4000]

Will wait for 1 more opinion.

Thanks mate

 

[skit75]

If you have an i5 already, the next best move is the SSD. The gains to be had from the SSD greatly outweigh the gains of going to an i7, from an i5.

 

[cmi86]

I produce a lot of electronic music with my rig and I'll tell ya mate that SSD might as well be dripping in gold !

 

[Omga4000]

If you have an i5 already, the next best move is the SSD. The gains to be had from the SSD greatly outweigh the gains of going to an i7, from an i5.

I am talking about a case where a new full system is bought. Not as an upgrade.

 

[skit75]

If you have an i5 already, the next best move is the SSD. The gains to be had from the SSD greatly outweigh the gains of going to an i7, from an i5.

I am talking about a case where a new full system is bought. Not as an upgrade.

In that case, I would build it out with a high clock speed i5 CPU and the SSD unless you can find something in your application's Theory of Operation that says how it benefits from more virtual cores Vs. clock speed.

 

[Omga4000]

[Pay attention: I do not live in the USA and therefore prices are different (much higher) and stock is different]

There are basically 2 options (divided into another 2):
i5 3470 (245$) Vs. i5 3570 (272$)
OR
4570 (256$) Vs. 4670 (295$)

Old generation Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H) is another 94$.
New generation Motherboard (Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H) is another 120$.

That comes to:
339$ / 366$ - Old Generation
376$ / 415$ - New Generation

Which would you take? Do they matter? Worth the extra $?

 

[Narcissistic_Martyr]

OP,

If you're not overclocking you might want to see what the local prices are on the xenon e3 1230v2/v3. In the US it's basically an i7 3770/4770 respectively for the price of an i5 3570/4670 and yes it works on consumer motherboards and with non-ECC RAM.

Also, if you make a living from using your PC in this fashion I'd highly recommend evaluating the economic benefits of reducing the time to finish your work vs the increased cost of a CPU. You may well find that an overclocked i7 3930k saves you enough time that it's worth the $400 extra cost.

 

[skit75]

You've now entered an Ivy Bridge vs. Haswell thread =)

With Haswell you get a better integrated GPU and supposedly, better power efficiency.

If this was me building this out, I would probably select the i5 3570. I say this not knowing if your programs benefit from hardware acceleration and assuming they do not. I always build with discreet GPU's anyway.