Economical set up for running Finale well on a 4K monitor
Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2021 8:02 pm
My private personal computer has just died. I need a new desktop machine to run Finale. This can be configured quite precisely from components (i.e. I choose the parts, and the supplier sends me a completed working machine!)
I have two questions:
1) does Finale27 actually use a GPU if you have one?
2) is a generic soundcard ideal for Finale ? – is it worth adding a Sound Blaster card? (or am I making extra work for myself?)
A note on configuring hard ware.
(Apologies to those to whom this is all very obvious)
Many gaming sites let you configure a build. Typically one starts with a bottom end/'essential' gaming machine and add/subtract components as appropriate. The actual power of almost any CPU or GPU model is listed by pass mark (https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php) but you need the complete model number. The powerful machine I'm borrowing right now has i7-8850 (PM: 10,468) and Quadro P1000 GPU(PM:4485) which provides excellent performance on the 4K monitor. 'Pass mark' tells me that an i3-10100F has a PM of 8872, and an iI5-10400F has a PM 12,445 (both common CPUs in bargain gaming machines) while the GPU of a bottom end gaming machine is often a Geforce GTX 1650 (PM: 7751).
I know other factors affect the performance – the speed and quality of the motherboard etc – but in a machine sold as a bundle one may reasonably expect folks to match those parts to the CPU/GPU. In addition 'pass mark' probably overrates machines with many cores - discussion on this forum suggest Finale is primarily single threaded! Is that true of Finale 27?
Interestingly, knowing just the i7, i5 or even i9 designation provides little indication of performance – my old machine had an Intel Core i7-840QM with a PM of 1922 - less than one quarter of a modern i3.
I have two questions:
1) does Finale27 actually use a GPU if you have one?
2) is a generic soundcard ideal for Finale ? – is it worth adding a Sound Blaster card? (or am I making extra work for myself?)
A note on configuring hard ware.
(Apologies to those to whom this is all very obvious)
Many gaming sites let you configure a build. Typically one starts with a bottom end/'essential' gaming machine and add/subtract components as appropriate. The actual power of almost any CPU or GPU model is listed by pass mark (https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php) but you need the complete model number. The powerful machine I'm borrowing right now has i7-8850 (PM: 10,468) and Quadro P1000 GPU(PM:4485) which provides excellent performance on the 4K monitor. 'Pass mark' tells me that an i3-10100F has a PM of 8872, and an iI5-10400F has a PM 12,445 (both common CPUs in bargain gaming machines) while the GPU of a bottom end gaming machine is often a Geforce GTX 1650 (PM: 7751).
I know other factors affect the performance – the speed and quality of the motherboard etc – but in a machine sold as a bundle one may reasonably expect folks to match those parts to the CPU/GPU. In addition 'pass mark' probably overrates machines with many cores - discussion on this forum suggest Finale is primarily single threaded! Is that true of Finale 27?
Interestingly, knowing just the i7, i5 or even i9 designation provides little indication of performance – my old machine had an Intel Core i7-840QM with a PM of 1922 - less than one quarter of a modern i3.