Celeron® N2830 Dual-Core Processor For Tracking Only

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Quick question, anyone using a Celeron chip in your systems? I am setting up a portable rig and rather than go with a portastudio, going with something like this:

Cheap Laptop (hence the question)
Tascam 1800
Reaper

All I want to do is track. I can get a laptop with a Celeron chip for around $230. If I move to an i3 chip, price goes up by $200. I've never worked with a Celeron chips, I usually use AMD and for desktops. I know they are the lower rated chip in Intel's chip sets, so I am rather cautious of using one. I do want to be able to capture up to 16 tracks. Once again, mixing will be done post tracking.

I have a gut feeling it will work just fine, but wanted to get some insight to anyone who may have used this chip. Any inputs would be appreciated.
 
DM60 said:
Quick question, anyone using a Celeron chip in your systems? I am setting up a portable rig and rather than go with a portastudio, going with something like this:

Cheap Laptop (hence the question)
Tascam 1800
Reaper

All I want to do is track. I can get a laptop with a Celeron chip for around $230. If I move to an i3 chip, price goes up by $200. I've never worked with a Celeron chips, I usually use AMD and for desktops. I know they are the lower rated chip in Intel's chip sets, so I am rather cautious of using one. I do want to be able to capture up to 16 tracks. Once again, mixing will be done post tracking.

I have a gut feeling it will work just fine, but wanted to get some insight to anyone who may have used this chip. Any inputs would be appreciated.
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As long as you aren't using a ton of plugins, it should work just fine. I used to have a cheapo laptop with a Celeron clocked at 2.25 with only 4 gigs of ram that ran Sonar X1, then X2. Most of my projects were small...12 - 24 tracks and I had zero problems. Now, rendering a mix would take awhile. lol

Good luck. Capturing audio is not that processor intensive....processing it is.
 
TeyshaBlue said:
As long as you aren't using a ton of plugins, it should work just fine. I used to have a cheapo laptop with a Celeron clocked at 2.25 with only 4 gigs of ram that ran Sonar X1, then X2. Most of my projects were small...12 - 24 tracks and I had zero problems. Now, rendering a mix would take awhile. lol

Good luck. Capturing audio is not that processor intensive....processing it is.
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Yea, that is why I was OK with getting a low end laptop. I am sure the portastudios have low end processors. But they have the OS optimized for performance. That is how they can get way with it.

No just tracking and going to use Reaper. Reaper seems to be more efficient code and doesn't waste CPU.

Thanks for the input.
 
I once ran Reaper off of a flash drive on a netbook with an Atom processor. Ran great. lol
 
I recorded 16 tracks with a Centrino 1.6 laptop, 512MB of RAM and a Fireface 800 with no issues. To an external drive.

Yeah, I know. I'm a badass! Livin' on the edge, baby!

Cheers :)
 
Mo Facta said:
I recorded 16 tracks with a Centrino 1.6 laptop, 512MB of RAM and a Fireface 800 with no issues. To an external drive.

Yeah, I know. I'm a badass! Livin' on the edge, baby!

Cheers :)
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Scary bad ass!:thumbs up:
 
Probably don't need to say, but!
If that is a dedicated tracking laptop you can of course make serious cuts to the functions and services that are running.
Wireless, Network interfaces and OBSound and Win bleeps of course but remove any anti-V software (never found it a problem with my HP i3 but yours ain't!) Lowest graphics resolution, no Aero! Check you don't have a defrag routine set up. If you have a system backup on another drive or an OS copy you could turn off Restore.

Dave.
 
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