LIVE 4 PERFORMANCE TEST

neuronaut · Post by **neuronaut** » Sat May 14, 2005 5:49 pm

1) 30%
2) Custom Desktop
3) Win XP service pack 2
4) Pentium 4 CPU 3.00 GHz
5) 1 GB Ram
6) Internal sound card
7) 7200 RPM drive

algo · Post by **algo** » Sun May 15, 2005 1:25 pm

i wonder how the amd turion will do in this benchmark, is anyone able to test one??

plainclothes · Post by **plainclothes** » Sun May 15, 2005 6:03 pm

If only to confirm that Tiger does not make much difference...

1. 78%
2. TiBook
3. 10.4
4. 867 mhz
5. 1 GB
6. MOTU 828 mkII
7. 4200 rpm

Has anyone tried a new 2 ghz 17"" iMac?

Of course the other iMac postings would seem to suggest it is already a fine Mac way to go.

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Sun May 15, 2005 7:36 pm

plainclothes wrote: Has anyone tried a new 2 ghz 17"" iMac?

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the user Geraldo reported his test results with the 2ghz G5 iMac

warpus · Post by **warpus** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:04 am

Just got a brand new Dell Notebook, removed all the extra Dell and Virus software. Installed Live. Tuned the machine to all the settings from musicxp.net, loaded up the performance test and I have to say the results are very dissapointing. Anyone have an idea why my machine is performing so poorly (this is about what I would expect from my powerbook 1.25ghz).

1) Peak Meter: 45%
2) Dell Inspiron 6000 Notebook
3) WinXP ProOperating System
4) Intel Pentium M 2.0 Ghz
5) 2 GB RAM, 533Mhz RAM Speed
6) Echo Indigo DJ
7) 60 GB, 7200 RPM

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:16 am

Yeah man, that seems poor. Which gives me the shits because i was thinking of picking up the (almost) identical Dell laptop!!

That seems about double what it should be, so only think I can think of is powersaving? If your processor cuts its power in half to save juice, it would seem that Live would use twice as much processor, no?

-tim

PS please update if you find out anything! That 9300 2ghz is begging me to order it

warpus · Post by **warpus** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:27 am

I have all of the power saving options set to Best Performance. The system panel shows the machine running at 1.99 Ghz. I just don't get it. The meter is pretty much pegged at 45% although it occasionally drops down to about 20% for a split second or so.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:32 am

Thats bizarre. I'm sure you've already done it... but have you tried different asio drivers?

warpus · Post by **warpus** » Tue May 17, 2005 5:42 am

timothyallan wrote:Thats bizarre. I'm sure you've already done it... but have you tried different asio drivers?

OK, I figured it out. I installed SpeedswitchXP and that's definately done the trick. The fan on my notebook is a little louder, but the with the performance test loaded Im now getting a peak meter of 18%. Sweet! Thanks for the suggestions.

Fingers · Post by **Fingers** » Tue May 17, 2005 10:57 pm

1) 37%
2) Apple iMac G5 20" Rev B
3) OS X 10.4.1
4) 2Ghz G5
5) 1.5Gb DDR400
6) Edirol FA-101 Firewire
7) 7200rpm

It's big, it's shiny, and it runs Live so well I had to check it wasn't windows underneath. Finally my 500mhz Powerbook gets a well-earned rest.

I'm getting 29% using the built-in audio, and the optical out seems to support up to 96khz operation (anyone know if this is true? You can select 96k in Live's preferences so I'm assuming it works), so I might be using that for all those times when I'm not recording.

aleeann · Post by **aleeann** » Wed May 18, 2005 4:51 am

1) 45%
2) Compaq Presario R4000
3) WinXP Home
4) AMD64 4000+
5) 2gb ram
6) Edirol UA-25
7) 5400rpm

Something's seriously wrong here. Did all the tuning stuff according to www.musicxp.net. This new machine should be smokin'.

This is my third lappy for music production and it's actually the slowest running Live!

My previous lappy was a 3.2ghz, Intel 4, with 1 gb ram and I got it to 23% CPU usage.

I've also tried speedswitchXP to no avail.

Any suggestions? What's up?

raapie · Post by **raapie** » Wed May 18, 2005 6:25 am

warpus wrote:Just got a brand new Dell Notebook, removed all the extra Dell and Virus software. Installed Live. Tuned the machine to all the settings from musicxp.net, loaded up the performance test and I have to say the results are very dissapointing. Anyone have an idea why my machine is performing so poorly (this is about what I would expect from my powerbook 1.25ghz).

1) Peak Meter: 45%
2) Dell Inspiron 6000 Notebook
3) WinXP ProOperating System
4) Intel Pentium M 2.0 Ghz
5) 2 GB RAM, 533Mhz RAM Speed
6) Echo Indigo DJ
7) 60 GB, 7200 RPM

Please make sure Power Management is off. musicxp.net might be handy if you have problems, but don't use it as default. It might only be needed on very old machines trying to run XP. One of the biggest complains about it is that you make your machine a non-standard machine. If you run into trouble, what can you do? So my advice is to only tweak things you absolutely know why you need to tweak it. Test the machine before and after the tweak. I have done all kinds of stuff on my Sony Z1 and never got a better performance thanthe default XP setting plus the stuff I'll mention below. That was including deleting (yes, deleting) most services using XPlite. The machine didn't had a network protocol available at the time and USB plug-and-play was not working. Results? No better performance. This was a good test, I gave up tweaking under XP.

In my opinion XP should work perfectly when:
- power management is disabled, so the CPU is always running on full speed
- performance should be set up like servers, Background Services priority (memory usage to System cache)

Please don't read my stuff as the bible. Do your own tests. Good luck!

octex · Post by **octex** » Wed May 18, 2005 10:00 am

aleeann wrote:1) 45%
2) Compaq Presario R4000
3) WinXP Home
4) AMD64 4000+
5) 2gb ram
6) Edirol UA-25
7) 5400rpm

Something's seriously wrong here. Did all the tuning stuff according to www.musicxp.net. This new machine should be smokin'.

This is my third lappy for music production and it's actually the slowest running Live! 8O

My previous lappy was a 3.2ghz, Intel 4, with 1 gb ram and I got it to 23% CPU usage.

I've also tried speedswitchXP to no avail.

Any suggestions? What's up? :?:

Might be the PCI-express bus causing problems?

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Wed May 18, 2005 10:06 am

set power management to ALWAYS ON.

AJS Music · Post by **AJS Music** » Wed May 18, 2005 2:05 pm

Fingers wrote:1) 37%
2) Apple iMac G5 20" Rev B
3) OS X 10.4.1
4) 2Ghz G5
5) 1.5Gb DDR400
6) Edirol FA-101 Firewire
7) 7200rpm

It's big, it's shiny, and it runs Live so well I had to check it wasn't windows underneath. Finally my 500mhz Powerbook gets a well-earned rest.

I'm getting 29% using the built-in audio, and the optical out seems to support up to 96khz operation (anyone know if this is true? You can select 96k in Live's preferences so I'm assuming it works), so I might be using that for all those times when I'm not recording.

Well that's excellent news to hear b/c I need to update my Ti550MHz and was considering the Rev B G5 iMac. Although, I'm oscillating with my desire for a dual processor PM.

Anyway, for the records, my Ti550PB could not handle it at all. Something like 230% within Live ... all distorted as well. wtf????? The CPU load via MenuMeters was pegged at 100%

How did your 500MHz PB perform?

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