@Mahlon said:
how many voices/instruments in VE Pro could a 24 gig 2 processor (say, nehelem 5520's) handle?
example at 256 latency, but tested within MIR (means including convolution) before crackles appear:
5520: 100 1000 voices from 30 instruments at 63% CPU
i7: 890 voices from 27 instruments at 65% CPU
what in detail means *not getting stability*? your i7 running VE PRO should be more than bored all the time ....
leave say 1/2 GB memory free (i.e. fill only up to 11.5 GB physical memory) for keeping some headroom ...
christian
typo edited
Christian, thanks for the stats. By "not getting stability", I mean the computer freezes/locks up. I don't believe this has anything to do with VEPro. Rather, it's most likely a fault on the motherboard, either with the way it handles memory timings/settings or actual physical problem (or maybe with the processor, though tend to think the motherboard at this point). My RAM timings and voltages are set very conservatively and I'm still getting the occassional freeze, but so far only when I've crossed the 9.5 gig barrier of RAM filled.
The RAM has checked out OK multiple times with MEM test and the system has run innumerable prime95's without crashing. Still, there could be a discrepancy between the motherboard/bios and RAM. Well, there IS some discrepancy. I just don't know exactly who the culprit is. And I don't have the luxury of trading out parts to find out at the moment.
Thanks again,
Mahlon