Good question, although I can't really comment too well. My system has always had SP2 on it because I bought this setup way after SP2 was released. I've never had anything other than WinXP on it, and I've never had any upgrades. This system is the same as the day I built it.AdamJay wrote:spacerboy and amberience seem to be getting very good results with Athlon XP's at 2600 and 2400. One thing in common - they are both running XP SP2. I wonder if thats a factor.
either of you care to comment on any noticable performance boosts since updating to SP2 ?
Mind you... I did custom build it. I chose the components myself and I got the shop to set it up. I never use a Ghost image either, always a fresh install.
At the moment I have a Rewire setup going.
I've got Reason going into Live on the channels. I've got a pretty hefty spider setup in Reason with 5 mixers, 3 dr-rex's playing drumloops. In there is also some rex bass shots in an NNXT and polyphony for each device is set to 6. I have the bass and drums going through a scream each - two screams then.
I have 2 BV512 vocoders, two filters and two spider units splitting and joining the drums (so I can compress the lows and highs seperately) The vocoders have lines drawn down the frequency chart - fading down from the lows on the low device, and fading down from the highs on the highs device.
In Live I have the lows of the drums on channel 1, and the highs on channel 2. Each of these has a Kjaerhus Audio Golden Compressor on it. These two channels are routed to the 3rd channel and that also has a GCO-1 on it.
The bass comes in on channel 4.
CPU usage - 22%
To be truthful, I hardly ever have trouble with needing more CPU power. There is the odd occassion, but Live makes it so easy to bounce down its pretty much a non-issue.
I love this program!!
I might be upgrading however to this - what do you think???