System Resources for EWQLSO Platinum

[bizzy315]

You want the Core i7 for music production. It's an absolute work horse! The Core i5 processors are meant to be the new mainstream processors that all the basic/ consumer pre built pc's will have installed on them. They are very good processors don't get me wrong, but when it comes to performance and heavy tasks like running vst's and creating music you will want the benefit of hyperthreading. Only the i7 has this feature and here is an explanation of what it actually is and does:

Difference in Hyper-Threading

Another significant performance difference is how the Core i7 and Core i5 products will be handling hyper-threading. Hyper-threading is a technology used by Intel to simulate more cores than actually exist on the processor. While Core i7 products have all been quad-cores, they appear in Windows as having eight cores. This further improves performance when using programs that make good use of multi-threading.

Some Core i5 products have this feature, but some do not. Currently, the Core i5 750 does not have hyper-threading, but it does have four physical cores. The dual-core Core i5 products, on the other hand, do have hyper-threading.

In either case, the end result is that no Core i5 products has or will have more than four physical or simulated cores. This means that Core i5 products will not be as quick under heavily multi-threaded work loads as Core i7 products.

[Composer Guy]

Thanks for the explanation. Looks like I'll have to fork out for an i7 then.

So will 2.8ghz quad core i7 be enough to run the 24 bit samples or should I be getting Platinum Plus?