24 bit /44100 or 48000 sample rate ?quad or 6 core Mack Pro

[Denis357]

24 bit /44100 or 48000 sample rate ?

3.7GHz quad-core with 10MB of L3 cache
3.5GHz 6-core with 12MB of L3 cache
3.0GHz 8-core with 25MB of L3 cache

Your choice and advice ?
Thx

 

[Chili]

Any of them. Audio recording doesn't take a whole lot of cpu processing power.

(If you ever plan to do video, get the best you can)

 

[PDP]

Any of those will produce a very large project including Virtual Instruments and many plug-ins for mixing. Virtual Instruments and some plug-ins use a lot of CPU. I just finished a 46 track project with 6 virtual instruments on my system which is a 2.8 Quad intel w/8G ram. At 24bit 96khz