
Originally Posted by
PeteG@Scan
Hi there,
I've gotta admit I run a studio much like yours (Cubase, 3.2 p4 chip and stack of hardware) and it still does the job. But then again I work outside of the box for everything but editing and sequencing.
I've been playing around with video processing on it through and if you want to do any editing I 'd say go for as much power as you can lay your hands on!
My second box for gaming and design work is a Q6600 based rig and even on there if i'm doing video work and cutting up on the fly it will stop to re-rendor the video which annoys me a bit. I know from speaking to people here too, that flight sim will eat up any spare processor time you have no matter what set up you have so if you want to max it out, once more I'd say go for the i7 solution.
To be honest if your going for a p45 solution the's only a couple of hundred quid between the two and the performance increase you see in real terms is worth more than that. If you can afford to i7 it and have the call for it (which I think you may with the video stuff) then go for it!