I have been looking at the various options out there. I have a 8700K with 64G ram now. I could upgrade the motherboard, 128G DDR5 ram, 14900k for around $1200. I would reuse the case, power supply, cooler, and 2080 Ti. This seems like a huge upgrade.

Option 2 is to go all in on a M2 Ultra Mac Studio, but this would run over $4k.

It seems like either system will run Nuendo with no problem, I just wonder which is easiest to work with. I have always been on PC, but I always hear about the Mac’s just working.

Does anyone have experience with the two setups? The 13900k is the same processor as the 14900k essentially so I would lump that one in too. What is the performance like for a M2 Ultra vs 13/14th generation Intel? I’m finding it hard to fork out nearly 4x the money for a system that doesn’t seem to perform as well on paper. I’m looking for real world experiences.

Thanks in advance.

  • Raven586@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    If you figure you can afford it, get the mac. You won’t be disappointed, for music they absolutely rock !!

  • nagynorbie@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Your 8700k is already really good. The 14900k has more cores, but a lot of them are efficiency cores. With Cubase 13 Steinberg made performance scale way better with efficiency cores, than before, and this will probably be a feature in Nuendo as well, but it’s still not the same as having a real core.

    I’ve bought a Mac Mini, and performance is good, but there are a lot of things that I don’t like about MacOs, especially since I have 1080p/1440p monitors which look like shit on MacOs

  • MachineAgeVoodoo@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have a 9700k ddr4 system that started feeling sluggish a few months ago. Physically cleaned the insides and fans = lower temps and performance is back