On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 19:44:19 +0200 Ede Wolf <listac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The price advantage for the AMD would probably be eaten up by the > more expensive colling - I prefer it rather quiet - and the higher > energy bill. But if it would be the more adequate CPU for this very > workload, I would go that route. i7 are all HT, so that would leave > the i5 as only other option. IME, HT dosen't have to be a showstopper. It's conceptually "wrong" to use it if you are relying on linux realtime processing, but in real life it's normally not a problem with audio, unless you push the system real hard doing other things. I also theorize that on an i7 it can lead to cache depletion and cause long xruns when the CPU is heavily loaded. On the other hand you can normally just disable HT in the BIOS, so with the right motherboard it shouldn't be a criteria to disqualify a CPU. -- Joakim _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
