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Melodist
By Melodist
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Howdy fellas,

 

Like a lot of long-time Mac users, I've grown tired of how Apple treats their audio post production customer base, in particular not upgrading the "Pro" line up. While I'm still happy with how my Mac Pro 3.1 performs at this very moment, I'd love to extend my hardware horizon and harness a more capable system. How would you go about tackling this delicate transition? First and foremost, I'd love to be able to keep an extra ssd in this new system and run macOS from time to time. Secondly, I'd appreciate a performance boost that's at least twice as fast as my current dual quad core (Intel Xeon E5462 @ 2.80 GHz 2 processors, 8 cores).

 

Now, what'd be your recommendations? Is it necesarry to pick a dual cpu setup again or can it be done with one? Does it have to be a Xeon or are i7s as durable and feasible for applications such as Pro Tools nowadays?

 

By the way, I wouldn't mind doing a little bit of gaming on this future build as well. 

 

Mike

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I7 should be fine. I'm not sure how CPU intensive and multithreaded Pro tools is but a 4790K or 6700K should do well.

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CPU: AMD R7 5800X | CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i PRO | Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO | Memory: G.Skill RIPJAWS V DDR4 3200mhz 64GB | GPU: EVGA RTX 3080Ti FTW3 Ultra | PSU: Seasonic Prime 1300w | OS Drive: Samsung 850 EVO SSD 500GB | Games Drive: Samsung 850 EVO SSD 1TB | Media Drive: 2x WD Blue HDD 1TB in Raid 0 | Media Drive: 2x WD Black HDD 2TB in Raid 1 | Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D | Monitor 1: ASUS PB287Q UHD | Monitor 2: ASUS PG278Q WQHD

 

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CPU: AMD R7 5800X | CPU Cooler: Corsair H115i PRO | Motherboard: MSI B550-A PRO | Memory: G.Skill RIPJAWS V DDR4 3200mhz 64GB | GPU: EVGA RTX 3080Ti FTW3 Ultra | PSU: Seasonic Prime 1300w | OS Drive: Samsung 850 EVO SSD 500GB | Games Drive: Samsung 850 EVO SSD 1TB | Media Drive: 2x WD Blue HDD 1TB in Raid 0 | Media Drive: 2x WD Black HDD 2TB in Raid 1 | Case: Corsair Obsidian 750D | Monitor 1: ASUS PB287Q UHD | Monitor 2: ASUS PG278Q WQHD

 

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Hello? How well does the 6800k perform? Or should I rather get the 6900k?

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