Would FL take advantage of a 4 CPU Motherboard?

[HSJIII]

I recently upgraded to FL 10 and it uses plugins (such as directwave) that do some serious CPU usage. I have to upgrade my system... so far I'm going the cheap rout and upgrading ram and cpu but keeping the motherboard... if this does not prove to be sufficient then I will have to upgrade to a new desktop pc. Now I'm thinking (as I look at the hardware available) it might be more cost effective to upgrade to a server (quad cpu, xeon for example) machine instead of a high end single processor machine. I have NO experience with multi-cpu server machines, and I don't know how to compare desktops to servers ... the buses on the server's I've looked at are alot slower than the desktop buses... I don't know if FL would take advantage of the multiple processors, and indeed if it can't then the slower bus will ruin the advantage of using the server motherboard... so... basically I don't know whether this huge investment would be worth it! I do know that FL hogs up all the cpu it can, however, so getting more cpu for as cheap as possible sounds great to me... so I'm asking: would it be well advised to build a server machine to run FL studio...?

Thanks so Much!
Sam

[Veranova]

FL is able to take full advantage of multicore ...

[HSJIII]

I mean multiple CPU's, not multiple cores... my...

[Veranova]

HSJIII wrote:I mean multiple CPU's, not multipl...

[HSJIII]

Just one example... haven't even read the spec....

[Veranova]

to answer your question though, Windows still s...

[HSJIII]

How about bus speed? For example THAT motherbo...

[Veranova]

firstly it's old that Mobo. It supports DDR2 ra...

[Veranova]

look a this http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lis...

[HSJIII]

FYI This one rates twice as fast for twice the ...

[Veranova]

you've already said this is way over your head ...

[ke5tnu]

A multi-chip machine is likely going to be a bi...

[Sipher]

The only need for multi core muti CPU set ups i...

[undersound]

Scott uses 2X Quad cores. So the answer must be...

[Sipher]

either he is running on a server machine , or h...

[Veranova]

I'm glad you guys have backed me up on this.

[c5_convertible]

I thought Scott used a single i7 2600... Which ...

[undersound]

c5_convertible wrote:I thought Scott used a sin...

[Lachra]

undersound wrote:c5_convertible wrote:I thought...

[Toxic Tom]

[Scott]

Lach Rae Dawn wrote:I think Scott does have an ...

[HSJIII]

Thanks! I appreciate the thoughtful responses....

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[HSJIII]

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