Topic: New Pianoteq user...cpu upgrades.
Just downloaded Pianoteq 8. I chose Bosendorfer and Shigeru for my initial packs. I'll probably add the C. Bechstein in a bit. My existing laptop has an i5 M560 processor (2 core-4 threads/2.67 ghz). I have 8 gb ram on board. I was playing the Shigeru Felt 1 setting and experienced a drop out yesterday. The Bosendorfer settings have been fine "so far" but the dropout perturbed me a little. I also got a "few" overload notifications at times if I really pressed. I decided to buy a used i7-4810 (I'll have to sell once it arrives) with four cores...but after doing about three hours of research I decided to go with a used Ryzen 5, with the 6-core 4650U processor (with 16 gb ram).
I'm hoping for triple the fun with 6 cores (12 threads). The benchmark scores show it to be much more powerful than the i5. I'd like to set polyphony to 256 like my Clavinova 745. Funny that I haven't used anything with an AMD based processor since the old Thunderbird based desktop I had over 20 years ago...back when 1.4 Ghz was all the rage.
This probably was the best move. I can go for the Synchron player and the Vienna Symphonic Library Bosendorfer samples later on. No way to run that the right way with an i5 or i7. I have stone age laptops these days...all based before 2014.
