Originally Posted By: justanoldmuso
this is why i think the i3 12300 is a nice compromise for music production…
cheap and powerful…unless one goes 'bonkers;' on resource heavy plug ins.
(one reason i love reaps is the resource stats built in.)

I wrote a longer reply, but allowed Firefox to reboot in the middle and lost it. Doh!

The i3-12300 and my candidate i5-11600 compare reasonably closely on PassMark.

Perhaps the arbiter might be that the i3-12300 is socket 1700, while the 10s and 11s are socket 1200, which perhaps approaching end-of-life. That said, my local supplier lists 37 socket-1200 CPUs against 19 socket-1700 CPUs, so the old dog certainly isn't yet dead.

Last edited by Gordon Scott; 09/08/22 04:36 AM. Reason: typo
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