Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:02 am
Last week I was playing around with the audio settings.
I found out that if you use the HD settings together with 96khz that the processor gets a lot of trouble. Especially if you want to go full on the organ. Within seconds, the processor turns red and the audio starts ticking.
Then my processor overclocked from standard 4000 to Max 4500 mHz. The voltages are automatically adjusted along with the multiplier
Again full on the organ. Now the processor was running up but not as fast as before.
So the next step. The buffer size is set to 1024. This, therefore, also adjusted in the sound card, usually goes automatically
Note that everything is still on HD audio plus 96KHz. Then everything opened again and rattled a lot. Processor ran up to 85%. And the audio tapping started again.
Then I lowered the polyphony, tested it again on various samples, taking into account all control windows from CPU Z and HWI info. This to also keep an eye on the temperatures because it also rose to 85 degrees
I could play quite a bit and also full, but I didn't trust it anyway. Even now the processor continued to run at 65% power. Still, every now and then the tapping through my speakers started.
I then turned off the HD audio and left only the 96kHz
Again fully played everything open play hard with everything at the same time plus pedals. The processor now stuck at 30%, no tapping was detected. Then set my buffer back to 512 and my polyphony increased again. The processor could handle it ran up to 40%. Then the buffer reduced to 256. Now the processor was at 43%.
Then I clocked my processor back to 4300 MHZ with the multiplier at 42
Everything tested again. Now it has risen to 51%. I was satisfied
But now comes the question. Using everything at the same time. So HD. Plus 96KHz. Is too much of a good thing. It's either or
What is the relationship between these two variants now you should only use HD at 48 KHz. Or just 96KHz.
Now I have tried all variants, and yet when I switch on both HD plus 96 KHz, it is like an organ is added. so beautiful such a beautiful reverb and so transparent.
So I decided to replace my proc the I7 6700K with the I7 7700K.
This is already set at 4.2 Ghz and can be overclocked to almost 5Ghz plus it is already 133,000 Mhz by default so that my memory is also faster.
My Mobo can handle it, so everything runs at peak power. Now then the tapping will almost disappear (I hope)
today messed a lot with all kinds of settings and voltages etc. etc. at one point blue screens, and a refusal from the Ilok due to delayed startup.
Then I took the plunge, I will and must get a system where the audio thing will run at its peak.
Finally, and the most important thing I found out yesterday
When I turn on IR, the processor almost jumps to top height, with all the consequences. At certain registers, the audio starts ticking while the processor is at 60%. with tuttie it is three times ramming the keyboards, and it ends immediately. That is With HD and 96 KHz with the audio buffer at 1024.
So without using IR, the system can handle it reasonably well. But as soon as the IR is switched on, playing a lot goes horribly wrong. speakers keep ticking
So far my findings so far
greetings Henk