Needing advice to upgrade my CPU

[Oneyejoe]

As of now I have a custom built computer that I build about 2 years ago.

It was a budget PC that I had built for gaming, just a basic rundown of the parts below.

Case - Phanteks Enthoo Pro Full Tower
CPU - AMD FX 8350 (32nm Vishera 125W) *Stock clocked with stock fan*
Motherboard - Asus Motherboard (cant remember the specifics)
RAM - 32GBs (DDR3)
GPU - EVGA Nvidia GTX 970 (4gb ram)
PSU - 650 watts gold supply
For storage just an SSD running windows 10 with a 1tb hard drive

Like I said it was mainly for gaming when I built it but as of now I have a new hobby of producing electronic music. Everything has been fine but lately I got an audio interface that runs at higher sample rates. 48khz with a decent buffer length. Sounds amazing but using this inside FL Studio 12 obviously is a little more taxing on the CPU. Where mid project, I have a decent amount of plugins running with lots of bass processing for sound designing and such, to where my CPU is getting hit pretty hard. Even having the bass bounced out into a wav. file helps a bit but the CPU load keeps hitting around 68 or 78 then goes to 98 and its pretty rough. What worries me is this is not a large project, its still in development.

Basically I am feeling like I may need to upgrade my CPU. I was wanting to possibly get a really good Intel processor, I'm not sure if that would run FL 12 projects better with the upped sample rates and such. Or if I should stick with an 8 core AMD CPU.

Any recommendations?.. I am within a budget, I would like to not spend 300 dollars alone on a CPU haha, but again I'm open to recommendations!


Thanks

 

[Snipergod87]

Budget is US dollars?
With any new processor you will need a new motherboard and DDR4 RAM, so it wont be a cheap upgrade.

 

[aquielisunari]

Budget is US dollars?
With any new processor you will need a new motherboard and DDR4 RAM, so it wont be a cheap upgrade.

Agreed.

There's no place to upgrade within the FX CPUs that that socket can support that would help your situation.

I would lean towards the 8400 i5 Coffee Lake CPU with your tasks in mind.

 

[tdmaster]

Yea, if your gonna upgrade you will also have to buy ddr4 memory which is pretty expensive atm. But if you can afford it I suggest looking at ryzen or the new i7s (8700k). Both have more cores and threads which will help you out. Also both are a solid upgrade for you in terms of gaming. Price is the issue, for the intel you can get higher OC but it comes a larger cost. You have to buy a cooler and the z270 equivalent of coffee lake( I think it's z370). With ryzen you can buy a cheaper mobo that can still OC and all the CPUs without x in the name come with a decent cooler. The cooler can get a solid 3.6 to 3.7 OC. Note intel most likely perform better but I'm taking cost as a factor here.

 

[Oneyejoe]

Budget is US dollars?
With any new processor you will need a new motherboard and DDR4 RAM, so it wont be a cheap upgrade.

Yes US dollars, and dang... :/ maybe more worth it to sell the thing and overhaul it with a completely new PC?..

 

[aquielisunari]

Yea, if your gonna upgrade you will also have to buy ddr4 memory which is pretty expensive atm. But if you can afford it I suggest looking at ryzen or the new i7s (8700k). Both have more cores and threads which will help you out. Also both are a solid upgrade for you in terms of gaming. Price is the issue, for the intel you can get higher OC but it comes a larger cost. You have to buy a cooler and the z270 equivalent of coffee lake( I think it's z370). With ryzen you can buy a cheaper mobo that can still OC and all the CPUs without x in the name come with a decent cooler. The cooler can get a solid 3.6 to 3.7 OC. Note intel most likely perform better but I'm taking cost as a factor here.

^'s why I suggested the 8400. It's a hex core which will be more than enough for music production. It performs better than the 6700K and only slightly worse than the 7700K. It saves you over $100(because you don't want to spend $300 on just the CPU) and will still offer a significant performance boost over the 8350.

 

[Oneyejoe]

Yea, if your gonna upgrade you will also have to buy ddr4 memory which is pretty expensive atm. But if you can afford it I suggest looking at ryzen or the new i7s (8700k). Both have more cores and threads which will help you out. Also both are a solid upgrade for you in terms of gaming. Price is the issue, for the intel you can get higher OC but it comes a larger cost. You have to buy a cooler and the z270 equivalent of coffee lake( I think it's z370). With ryzen you can buy a cheaper mobo that can still OC and all the CPUs without x in the name come with a decent cooler. The cooler can get a solid 3.6 to 3.7 OC. Note intel most likely perform better but I'm taking cost as a factor here.

^'s why I suggested the 8400. It's a hex core which will be more than enough for music production. It's performs better than the 6700K and only slightly worse than the 7700K. It saves you over $100(because you don't want to spend $300 on just the CPU) and will still offer a significant performance boost over the 8350.

Thank you! I was taking a look and it seems pretty reasonable for what im asking. The price is a bit steep but at this point with what I need to upgrade its going to be no matter what.

But as far as the CPU goes, this will definitely handle large projects with a high sample rate smoothly?..

I just ask because the specs I have now is already very good for music production, however just as of lately its been having a harder time. Guess the CPU's time is running thin. Idk

 

[aquielisunari]

Yea, if your gonna upgrade you will also have to buy ddr4 memory which is pretty expensive atm. But if you can afford it I suggest looking at ryzen or the new i7s (8700k). Both have more cores and threads which will help you out. Also both are a solid upgrade for you in terms of gaming. Price is the issue, for the intel you can get higher OC but it comes a larger cost. You have to buy a cooler and the z270 equivalent of coffee lake( I think it's z370). With ryzen you can buy a cheaper mobo that can still OC and all the CPUs without x in the name come with a decent cooler. The cooler can get a solid 3.6 to 3.7 OC. Note intel most likely perform better but I'm taking cost as a factor here.

^'s why I suggested the 8400. It's a hex core which will be more than enough for music production. It's performs better than the 6700K and only slightly worse than the 7700K. It saves you over $100(because you don't want to spend $300 on just the CPU) and will still offer a significant performance boost over the 8350.

Thank you! I was taking a look and it seems pretty reasonable for what im asking. The price is a bit steep but at this point with what I need to upgrade its going to be no matter what.

But as far as the CPU goes, this will definitely handle large projects with a high sample rate smoothly?..

I just ask because the specs I have now is already very good for music production, however just as of lately its been having a harder time. Guess the CPU's time is running thin. Idk

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