05-09-2014, 10:41 AM
Lol seriously if you're doing anything audio related, you really do NOT want a crappy Celeron with 4GB ram...
Anything that ASIO can't offload onto your soundcard is going to be dropped onto your main CPU and it's going to nail it, have a few VSTs on whilst doing some stuff and the latency is just going to go through the roof.
I'd be looking at a high clock speed, lower core count CPU - multi core is all nice, but means you'll tend to sacrifice clock speed for more cores, but you're wanting to solve latency problems, high clock speeds are better for this (not to mention you've the same amount of memory controllers for more cores, you can't get data in and out the cores fast enough). An i3/5 with a high turbo clock speed, dual core would be absolutely fine, stick in a 8GB of fast RAM and a good SSD and that'll see you right. An Intel NUC is not going to cut it here!!!!
Anything that ASIO can't offload onto your soundcard is going to be dropped onto your main CPU and it's going to nail it, have a few VSTs on whilst doing some stuff and the latency is just going to go through the roof.
I'd be looking at a high clock speed, lower core count CPU - multi core is all nice, but means you'll tend to sacrifice clock speed for more cores, but you're wanting to solve latency problems, high clock speeds are better for this (not to mention you've the same amount of memory controllers for more cores, you can't get data in and out the cores fast enough). An i3/5 with a high turbo clock speed, dual core would be absolutely fine, stick in a 8GB of fast RAM and a good SSD and that'll see you right. An Intel NUC is not going to cut it here!!!!
