craigb

Throughout the years Intel has always had more overclock room than AMD. Basically, ALL Intel chips are meant to be for the best/fastest group, however, they test each using a very large tolerance and sell the ones that just don't nail all the benchmarks as lower grade chips. AMD was never as good as Intel so they would sell their chips with very little tolerance over what they're spec'ed at. This is why you can often get lucky and buy an Intel chip that will overclock quite a bit, but you can hardly overclock AMD chips at all. That said, I'm with Jim on having either just provide rock-solid 5GHz across all cores so I don't have to toy with overclocking at all! ?

2D versus 3D?

Does your Cadillac convertible have a catalytic converter? Does your conservatory caretaker have a criminal conviction? Does your carapace carcinoma have a chemotherapy contrast? Does your confused crustacean have carapace claustrophobia?

One back at ya!

I C what you did there!

Well, it certainly is A question!

Hmm... Makes me wonder if I need a mat...

Provided the software you're using can even USE those extra cores, ya? I've heard that most things out there will still overtax one core (say 80%), then off load to one or three more reliably (and at lower percentages). The others tend to just sit around... Hopefully that's changed (or is changing).

That's so nice to know it's not a bottle-neck any more. Thanks Jim! (And others who chimed in.) Ok, it's time for me to make some MONEY! I "need" gear and a much better computer for my DAW. ?

Can't help myself; I must ask... Do they print their catalog in color? ?

A Musician's Friend catalog? ?

Was just reading the Ryzen thread and the following question popped into my head. For recording audio with several tracks recording and/or playing back at higher resolutions (say 24/96 for sake of example), and, for fun, let's include a bunch of audio mangling (your choice, compression, pitch shifting, modulation, whatever), what do you think would be more useful? More cores (i.e., off-loading the processing to multiple cores) RAID striping (i.e., speeding up the writing of LOTS of data by striping to multiple drives) Sure, BOTH is the best answer, but I was just toying with the idea for kicks and giggles.

Hehe... I STILL have Jazz Drives in storage...

Thanks for posting the clarification. I saw it earlier and meant to say the same but then life took over and... yeah. ?

Totally random thought but, if you were blind, wouldn't that only be MD? ?

Well, he's kind of quiet you know... ?

Smart move! (Unless you'd rather have two guitars and be single! Hey, wait... That's ME! ?)

C'mon Kenny, let's face the facts. Right now, you can only hope to get one of Duke's leftovers. He's the chick magnet! ?

Someone once said they knew of a plug-in that Bapu didn't have. Naturally, I didn't believe such nonsense! ?

Time to reboot again (shakes tablet over head)...

FWIW, Microsoft will be officially ending support and updates for Windows 7 in January, 2020 so sooner is probably better than when the rush hits.

I only had two 8-track tapes. Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Heart's Dreamboat Annie. Right in the middle of, arguably, the most popular Heart song, Crazy On You, the song fades out, you hear it click to the next track, and then the song fades back in! Are you kidding me??!

So you're saying this is inaccurate Kenny? ?

Now that's a cool story! A friend of mine (who also looks and sounds like Tommy) is currently playing AS Tommy for Dennis DeYoung's band (August Zadra - one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet). If HE ever meets Paul, then Paul will be really confused! LOL!

When I wanted to get back into music and my arm still wasn't able to play guitar (nasty break in '84 - muscle and nerve damage), I was looking into MIDI gear and decided to try this new software that had just come out called Cakewalk v1.0! I already had a couple fast (for the time) computers and just needed that overly expensive Turtle Beach sound card because it came with General MIDI (and no Major Problems ?). So, a few tests, including helping Greg Hendershot debug I became a loyal customer upgrading at every chance until SONAR Pro-Audio 4.