Insights requested: Multiple Users for differtent demanding tasks

[Karim Bizid]

Hi all,

I am currently upgrading my PC and decided to do a full re-install.

The machine was exclusively used for Flight Simulation and some light gaming, but since the money I invested in the PC

I decided not to also buy a Mac for all audio production.
I do audio production professionally and have used a Mac for that in the past but since the Pro Audio World doesn't exclude Windows anymore I feel

perfectly comfortable to this on the same machine.

What I fear though, is that I have to almost entirely reconfigure the PC switching between flight sim and pro audio.
For instance: the audio setup with flightsimming runs trough Voicemeter (beceause of communications and differtent types of signals), but for the Pro Audio I want Windows to directly use the 
sound card. 
Next to this example there are other matters like scaling, fan profiles (whilst simming it can sing but during audio it needs to be quiet) etc. etc.
Therefor my initial idea was to create 2 seperate users in Windows to keep this as seperate as possible.
However: I haven't played arround with Windows Users since our familly XP Desktop a million years ago.

Any insights on this? Is this a good idea at all?

 

 

[whispous]

Half of your requirements being audio device switching, I use a streamdeck to accomplish this at the touch of a button. Useful device!

[Lurking]

Could you use an efficient CPU (I e. not Intel) and really good cooling to stay cool but quiet for the audio work? Or just run it hotter... I don't know how much actual load audio software has. But if you are willing to run close to 95C, it should be possible to be silent unless Audio software uses 12 cores at 100% or so 

 

That way you wouldn't need to worry about different fan profiles. 

[m9x3mos]

45 minutes ago, Lurking said:

Could you use an efficient CPU (I e. not Intel) and really good cooling to stay cool but quiet for the audio work? Or just run it hotter... I don't know how much actual load audio software has. But if you are willing to run close to 95C, it should be possible to be silent unless Audio software uses 12 cores at 100% or so 

 

That way you wouldn't need to worry about different fan profiles. 

Don't the new amd chips peri much always get to 95c under heavy load with the way they do auto over clock like gpus do? Could have sworn jay did that in a recent video. 

[Lurking]

6 hours ago, m9x3mos said:

Don't the new amd chips peri much always get to 95c under heavy load with the way they do auto over clock like gpus do? Could have sworn jay did that in a recent video. 

Yes, but only if your load is as high as the CPU can handle. Like in Prime 95 or other artificial tests the CPU will be at 95C and your cooling system basically determines how fast it is at that temperature. There each core will run as fat as possible.

 

but most applications don't use all cores at maximum (not needed, or data don't come fast enough etc.). For example, in a game, a 12-core CPU may only use 8 cores at 80% of the max speed. 

 

For OP's audio software, you really have to try out how much it uses. Like if it is live encoding in real time, the CPU likely will be underutilized because the data coming at 1x speed is really low. if it is a batch job (i.e. a 3 minute audio file can be processed in seconds or multiple in parallel), more CPU will be used. But it may still not be all cores. All depends on the software uses multiple cores etc. 

 

but in general, in real life applications, a CPU will run under 95°C with a good cooler. I'm sure there are real world applications that actually run at 95C. 

My 12-core is at 95°C in certain Prime 95 tests. But in real life, my most demanding application is running 2 instances of handbrake, I don't get over 88°C.