Recommended Computer Processing Power

[zenpmd]

I run an i3 2100t at the moment. I have heard various things about processing power - how much is actually necessary?

 

Thanks

[James1776]

I have run J-river product on some pretty ancient processors. I have found memory far more important for my configuration.

[Jsmith]

I think it depends on what you are using it for. For just music playback, I would agree with others that memory is probably more key. If you are also going to be ripping CDs, again a lower processor is probably fine.

 

If you are ripping DVD-A or Blu-Ray audio, or movies processor becomes more important.

[zenpmd]

What about Ram, then? I currently have 1333mhz ddr3 4gb. I am considering putting 8 in.

[Jsmith]

I have a VortexBox that I use to rip movies as well as serve up audio. Because of this and the cheap price of RAM, I maxed out the MB at 8GB.

 

As you can see it takes full advantage of the extra memory.

 

[Sik_Lescinovid]

As the others already pointed out it's all relative. My music server for example is only used to play music via network or attached storage and boasts a whopping 500 MHz processor with 256 MB DDR RAM. The sound is superb, so clearly pure music playback doesn't require much horsepower.

[One and a half]

For playing music an atom processor is fine albeit with 8GB but good luck with Win32 to recognize this.

 

For library management, ripping, copying, tagging huge libraries, and backup, processing is all important, who wants to wait....I certainly don't have the patience any more.