Anyone Running SONAR 3 on an Athlon 64?

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Anyone Running SONAR 3 on an Athlon 64

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I've been looking at building a machine using the ECS 755-A2 motherboard and wondered if anyone else is running SONAR 3.0 on something similar.

The board uses the new Athlon 64 3200+ / 2.00GHz processor
 
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Thanks Warble, I deleted the link. It was a machine TigerDirect was selling for $699.00 but then I found out they only had two left - both refurbished.

I'm looking at building a machine using AMDs 64 bit processor and want to run SONAR 3.X on it.
 
Phyl said:
Thanks Warble, I deleted the link. It was a machine TigerDirect was selling for $699.00 but then I found out they only had two left - both refurbished.

I'm looking at building a machine using AMDs 64 bit processor and want to run SONAR 3.X on it.
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Me too, but I hear that the application has to be able to take advantage og the 64 bit architecture or it isnt worth doodly squat. That may be wrong. If you find any info, point me to it. There is good info and reviews at anandtech.com if you feel like being overwhelmed with information.
 
Your right Tube, SONAR doesn't utilize the 64 bit capability; I just want a machine I can grow into.
 
although it would be sweet if cakewalk released a 64 bit version of Sonar, the perfoance of the athlon 64 is still great in 32 bit mode. don't want to start the AMD vs Intel yet again but athlon 3200 is a beast at 32 bit applications. I think getting 64 bit is gonna take some doing still as we need the windows 64 bit operating system, 64 bit software (sonar) and 64 bit drivers for the soundcards and other hardware.
 
let me preface by saying my day job for 20 odd years was as a computer engineer working for various computer companies. .....
with that out of the way imho dont worry about 64 bit windows etc etc.
irrespective you should see much faster processing times because of the power of the 64. particularly in doing things like say batch processing noise reducing a bunch of tracks or individual tracks. the only thing that concerns me right now is pricing. as soon as the 64 drops in pricing to more affordable levels i will be getting it. the only way to know if it suits your needs is to run sonar on a amd 64 and do performance timing benchmarks compared to your current daw. eg: how long to do process reverb on a track.
think about the time saved particularly on longer songs in processing individual tracks.
 
just ordered my AMD 64 3200+, if you still havn't decided on a Cpu in the next week or so, i'll post what i think of it. Then again i'm getttn a whole new system so i don't know if all the performance change can be due to the processor alone.

Like manning said, i'm not even interested in AMD's 64 bit features of the CPU as i'm sure i won't get to utilize them for a long time. After seeing various benchmarks from www.anandtech.com I think (IMHO) that AMD offers superior value compared to Intel. I still think Intel makes great chips as well but AMD offers more value. I've never owned one though so we will see in the next couple of months.
 
Thanks.

I'm also curious if anyone has had problems using a serial ATA hard drive interface.
 
Phyl said:
Thanks.

I'm also curious if anyone has had problems using a serial ATA hard drive interface.
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With a controller connected to the PCI bus, yes. My Delta 66 pops, crackles and snaps but that's on an XP with an nforce chipset and a onboard Sil SATA controller that shares (or doesn't) the PCI bus with everything else.

On Via/Intel chipsets with native SATA support on the southbridge, no reported issues.
 
hmmm i should have the same setup....

nforce chipset (asus K8N)
athlon processor
on-board SATA controller
PCI bus soundcard
windows XP

Hopefully i don't have any of that snap crackle pop bullshit.
 
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