That's what most men are good at. Proving others wrong.
I can't dig up reason why did you posted your comment, or start it with "you have zero understanding". Was it to prove your superiority in this field? Is it out of your habit to start your posts like that?
I'm really curious.. *yes*
Actually I read more about it since the time I posted my comment, and it's true that GPUs aren't exactly CPU substitutes when it comes to audio processing. There's inherent latency and other issues associated with it.

 

yes, just had to buy a better cooler, the stock one was too noisy when i was at full power.
Apart from that , very satisfied

 

divas adn something else? to be honest i have no idea what those are, and im far too lazy to google it, but im guessing its some kind of out board external processing gear? sounds cool tho.

 

Soft Synths

U-he Diva

Serum - XferRecords

 

Cool. Im sure my processor could handle them tho..even if only one instance at a time..but..havent even tried them so yeah. The website seems to indicate need a lot of horse power and says multi-core minimum requirments..maybe i will one day.

 

a core i3 or even the aniversary pentium is good enough for muisc. i know people who are getting stuff released useing those processors.
but the main reason i built my rig is also for my day to day job which is web desighn and video editing. Also i game as well and music also.
its a core i7 5930k at 4.5ghz
32 gigs ddr4 g-skill ripjaw 4 ram
nvidia gtx 980 ti the evga hybrid model.

 

A question on the low budget side: has any of you tried an Athlon x4 for very light music production? I have a spare 760k on the shelf and was considering building a computer for a friend using it, but i'm afraid it chokes and dies trying to record two tracks at once... Thanks for your help.

 

Depends on what you use obviously, I tried on Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (1ghz) and with little cherry picking for low hit plugins managed to get something out of it, used Reaper which is the thing for low end machines, little freezing here&there, it's possible, if you want I can compile you my list of low CPU plugins, freebies entirely

Okay, now after Googling, that's quad core processor, people still use laptops with c2d to make music, of course you can *yes*

 

thanks a lot for the answer, I think I'll ask my friend for his opinion on the matter since his budget is tight and i'd rather spend 50€ on a small SSD than upgrading the cpu. I can't seem to find a decent middleground CPU, going with AMD there's the 8 core FX 8350, but i don't know how it will perform using Studio One (a bit cpu hog for what i've seen) or Reaper and there are so many different i3 and i5 in the intel core 4XXX series that i really don't know what to choose... I recently upgraded my oldy but powerful i5 2500k with a secondhand-really-cheap i7 2700k, but the equivalent i7 4790k (top tier consumer grade cpu) is around 350€... too many options, too little money!

Regarding the list of plugins, thanks, I appreciate it, but I think he will use Studio One since that's the software he got with his audio interface and he is comfortable using it, thanks anyway

 

Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 is the way to go man

 

Wow, thanks!! 8 threads for the price of an i5! those socket-1150-Xeon are more like middle tier, aren't they? I really don't know the difference between Xeon and Core i7 aside from the ECC support and marginally larger cache, but that model really looks like sweeeet spot to me! Thanks again!

 

I'm still on that one, really satisfied with it

Yeah, sure, I think he can't use 3rd party plugins anyways in that versions of S1 *no*

 

yes, they are middle tier and they don't have onboard graphics, but apart from that they're similar.

edit: I've switched to the said cpu just recently and I can't remember ableton's load indicator ever being over 20%, even in big projects.

 

That's nice, I've been trying recently a couple of instances of omnisynth or fullcircle or smthng like that in Ableton and had to set the buffer up to 128 to get rid of the glitches, cpu load all over the place... Using other synths my 2700k works like champ though...

 

Check your original post again. You state that "no one is considering", implying that developers are idiots and have zero knowledge about a GPU being 100x more efficient. Excuse me, but it is not me making ignorant posts, sir. I posted my comment to suggest that you read up on the matter. Unlike you, I've just stated a fact of your limited knowledge of the subject.

Inherent latency and additional buffers required for reassembling stuff isn't the main problem. The GPU cores just aren't suited for complex calculation chains required for a lot of audio work. For offline duties, they could have sped things up considerably, but most audio work is realtime, so go figure.

Why did I post? Because a GPU, even a modern one isn't 50 times more powerful than an i7 quad, dude. That's just BS.

No offense.