Working I7 Setups?

[Gordon]

Please post what works. mostly interested in the below . . .

1. Motherboard/CPU
2. Brand of RAM
3. OS/DAW application
4. Interface
5. UAD1/2 Working?

[Vic Trola]

Just finished the hardware and software install this weekend. Working well so far.

- Intel I7 920 Nehalem on a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P mobo (Stock CPU cooler. See my "heads up" post in this forum.)
- 6 Gig OCZ "Gold" Triple Channel DDR3 1600 PC12800 8-8-8-24 1.65 v.
- System Drive and Sample Drive: WD Caviar Black 620 Gig 32 Mb cache
- Audio Drive: Same as above, 1 Tb drive.
- HIS Radeon 4670 Dual DVI video card, 750 Ghz clock 1 Gig ram on board.
- iStarUSA 4U rack enclosure
- 3 hot swap drive trays for varying OS's if necessary and archival discs.
- XP Pro SP3 optimized and stripped down of all unnecessary OS services.
- Cubase 5
- M-Audio 1010LT (for now, until I upgrade to something else!) custom pigtailed into a patchbay.
- No UAD.

So far so good, but I've yet to really test it's power.

Good luck!

[FredYeah]

Running an ASUS P6T Deluxe with an I7 920 Processor here. 3GB Triple channel Kingston Hyperx RAM. 2 500GB Samsung F1 Spinpoints. And a stock videocard . Im running Win XP 32 Bit with Pro Tools M-Powered 8.0. My interface is the M-Audio Projectmix. And no UAD cards.

The computer is working flawlessly, whatever i do, i can't seem to stress it. CPU meter barely toches 60%. Tracking has become a breeze; finally i can use all my plugs when tracking, no more bouncing anymore!! But Pro Tools does has its glitches and hick ups. I'm waiting for the 8.1 upgrade

[Sounddesigner]

I'm using i7 with a SCOPE dsp card and so far everything works fine. Running several Sequencer programs threw SCOPE, using internet, running security software, etc, in Multi-tasking heaven with Core i7. Specs below.

Processor: Intel Core i7 920 Nehalem.
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P, Intel x58 chipset.
RAM: 3x 1 GB Corsair DDR3 1600mhz triple channel memory.
O/S: Windows XP, service pack 3.
Soundcard/dsp-card: SonicCore SCOPE dsp Pci card (will add SCOPE pcie x1 & maybe uad soon for multi-card set-up).
Graphics Card: Nvidia Geforce 9500.
Power Supply: Corsair CMPSU 650TX. 650 watts.
DAW: Sonar 7 .

[Barznbeats1]

Originally Posted by Gordon

Please post what works. mostly interested in the below . . .

1. Motherboard/CPU
2. Brand of RAM
3. OS/DAW application
4. Interface
5. UAD1/2 Working?

1. Gigabyte GA EX58 UD3R / Intel i7 920
2. 6GB OCZ Platinum triple channel 1600
3. XP Pro SP3 / Pro Tools 8
4. Digi 002r
5. N/A

Tested w/ 440 dverbs no problems

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