Sami
The Undisclosing
Dual CPU systems come with penalties to cache latency and especially memory access latency. Threading is a huge problem for Cubase with people having to implement registry changes to get performance from machines with more than a certain number of cores, this being a windows issue.
If you want to reduce the number of machines you own, acquire an i9 system with 14-16 cores, that being a sweet spot for price vs. performance, get 128gb of ram and a low latency interface, which you already own.
If you need slave systems, get some 64gb overclocked quad or hexa core i7s.
If you desperately need fast networking, go 10 Gbit, but either have someone who knows LAN implement it for you or get to grips with packet prio and traffic flow and optimize it yourself.
I disagree strongly with the marketing notion that dual xeon systems are good for low-latency midi applications with VIs. The platform is inherently higher latency, the frequency is slower, and the six-channel ECC RAM is the opposite of what we need as composers. The computer sold by the company above is very capable for specific workloads, but I cannot overstate how much I caution you against buying it for what you want it to do.
If you want to reduce the number of machines you own, acquire an i9 system with 14-16 cores, that being a sweet spot for price vs. performance, get 128gb of ram and a low latency interface, which you already own.
If you need slave systems, get some 64gb overclocked quad or hexa core i7s.
If you desperately need fast networking, go 10 Gbit, but either have someone who knows LAN implement it for you or get to grips with packet prio and traffic flow and optimize it yourself.
I disagree strongly with the marketing notion that dual xeon systems are good for low-latency midi applications with VIs. The platform is inherently higher latency, the frequency is slower, and the six-channel ECC RAM is the opposite of what we need as composers. The computer sold by the company above is very capable for specific workloads, but I cannot overstate how much I caution you against buying it for what you want it to do.