Sorry, but that is not necessarily true. Yeah, better than a 2002 PC, but configurations of newer PC's do not necessarily mean that it will be awesome. As my previous post will show. And this was a $2000 build that should have worked. It didn't because of a issue with USB controller and chipset or graphics card not communicating efficiantly. And many had issues with manufacturer built systems as well. Oddly, Steinberg has taken over two years working to find the issue. They still haven't. Ugh for others that do not have the desire to change their mobo.
Again, just for claritys sake, I was referring to pure
speed. Pinky suggested you would need "processing power" to run effects, instruments etc. and I just wanted to put things
in perspective. My current recording PC is in fact from
2004, and is MUCH faster than is really needed to handle 20+ tracks. The CPU in my desktop PC is from 2012, mid-level, and is 2 to 10+ times* faster than that recording PC. Anything from 2017? Definitely fast enough.
An issue with a USB controller or whatever else has nothing to do with that. Again, like I said, the main thing you want is
reliability, and that is precisely what you are actually talking about there jimmys69. So basically... agreed?
jimmys69 said:
I would agree that in most cases, a more modern PC will perform better, but it can be a crapshoot. Best would be to buy a fresh 'OEM' copy of Windows to make sure the manufacturer hasn't added a bunch of bloatware you can't get rid of.
I am curious though, is there a Windows 10 OEM? I am sticking with W 7 till It explodes...Windows 10 scares me as I have heard the auto updates can screw with software. I can't afford to have things suddenly not work while I am working on a project.
Definitely get rid of any bloatware, yes. Don't know about the OEM thing but I use W10 and I've indeed had the auto updates screw with things, A LOT (but actually only graphics related things). I don't really use this desktop for serious audio stuff. I'm the type that keeps the recording PC off the internet so it CAN't update itself or catch viruses etc.
Though, I do import projects onto this desktop and do rough mixes (that's all I do anyway
) and have so far had no real problems.
* The recording PC is single core and single core performance has "only" doubled in that time. Using all cores this newer one crushes that old thing. I don't know to what extent audio software takes advantage of multiple cores though. EDIT: Found something, some statistics even, related to the multi-core thing:
Does n-Track have the ability to utilize quad-core or dual-core processing?