I read somewhere that having a cpu with multiple cores is all but useless for most of the things your DAW will be doing like recording tracks and adding software FX and instruments.....This seemed odd to me, then I remember seeing my older Intel i5's 4 cores displayed in Cakewalk SONAR and now remember that only the first core would show the vast vast majority of activity....This kind of stunned me a bit but I never really thought about it, but apparently the modern typical DAW cannot make use of parallel processing that has to occur to take advantage of multiple cores working simultaneously. It works great for other software programs apparently, like video rendering and graphics programs, games, etc, but for DAW use, it's that first , single core that is doing 95% of the work.......which comes to the next question,...what kind of CPU is everyone using? I'm looking at re-building my entire pc after damaging the motherboard cpu socket when I got too much CPU paste gooped up everwhere and bent a bunch of the pins, DOH! .....Anyway, here's what I'm considering:
AMD Ryzen 2700X, 8 core @ 3.4 ghz per core
AMD Asus Rog Strix 450-F mobo
16 gig DDR 4 memory
a video card that will also let me play a modern game occasionally, tho I am not a gamer by any stretch lol
maybe a new snazzy case of some kind that will still let me mount my multi-sized card reader in a front slot
AMD Ryzen 2700X, 8 core @ 3.4 ghz per core
AMD Asus Rog Strix 450-F mobo
16 gig DDR 4 memory
a video card that will also let me play a modern game occasionally, tho I am not a gamer by any stretch lol
maybe a new snazzy case of some kind that will still let me mount my multi-sized card reader in a front slot