Johnbee58 Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) Revisiting this thread: https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/topic/6922-cpu-performance-meter/ Today I took my music PC to a local PC repair guy and he upgraded the memory from 8 to 16 GB and the difference was WOW!! When I got it home I ran 9 plugin instruments which would've KILLED the system on 8 GB and ran the performance meter up to about 76%. With 16GB the 9 plugins hit about 32 % usage and didn't burp at all. Also, plugins like Kontakt Player and Trilian Bass loaded much faster. The tech put in 2 4 gig sticks added to the original 1 8 gig stick so I still have a free slot but for right now it's like having a new computer!! Oh, BTW-my PC tech, who has his shop about 3 blocks from my home has a plaque on his wall that looks like a Platinum record with a Platinum CD where the label would be and it's autographed by Taylor Swift. This is Reading PA and Taylor grew up here. I asked him if he knew Taylor and he said he was her first guitar teacher. The dude's also into home recording/songwriting but uses a Mac (he mentioned Garage Band). He said he used to use Sonar years ago, but not recently. When I told him about CbB he was surprised about the takeover from Gibson. His shop is somewhat of a museum of old recording gear. He has a vintage Teac 3340s 4 track reel to reel among other bits of old classic gear. Small world! ? Edited October 10, 2019 by Johnbee58 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Wait till you have 32 GB or 64 GB. And a 12 to 24 core CPU running at 5 GHz. ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnbee58 Posted October 10, 2019 Author Share Posted October 10, 2019 1 hour ago, John said: Wait till you have 32 GB or 64 GB. And a 12 to 24 core CPU running at 5 GHz. ? The tech told me my PC has the capacity to go to 32 gigs. I might expand further later on but for now I just want to see what 16 can do and I'm impressed with even that much. ?JB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckebaby Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Yup, I remember when I upgraded from 8gigs to 16 gigs (back in 1849 I believe ). It made a huge difference. Especially loading times with VST-I's w/ large samples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Chuck 1849 was a good year if I recall it correctly!? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnbee58 Posted October 11, 2019 Author Share Posted October 11, 2019 But 1489 was an even better year for home computing!!! Chris Columbus would soon test the newly developed navigational software for sailing vessels (about 3 years later. ? ?) ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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