Codestation wrote:Last time I used AMD my CPU tower doubled as a furnace and - no matter what I did - an aircraft propeller sound source whenever I fired up... my DAW...
But that was years ago. If it's still a thing when I need to upgrade again, I'll check it.
Remember, DIVA > Omnisphere 2 > anything else you use.
That's why I was looking at the 1700. It's a lower wattage chip with 8 cores. It's got a fair price, and I'm hoping would run with less of a cooling requirement.cron wrote: This is another element for me. The noise. My i5-3570K at 4.5GHz is silent most of time, rising to a very gentle whirr when under full load. I'm using a cooler the size of my head to be fair though...