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Except maybe with dozens of VSTi's or so. Running it permanently seems unnecessary in most cases. On this case, just to be on the sure side, I'd disable turbo mode. Just put it aside and gave the user another one. No idea what was wrong with that machine. They connected but never retrieved mail from the server. I even had a beige G3 at work many years ago, that wouldn't do mail. But, hey, it's my own, not a customer machine, so there's no hurry

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In that year, that Mac ate several chargers.

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There's a one-wire serial comm chip on these DC-in board and the 100 nF ripple protection cap had gone bad, resulting in the Mac constantly switching the charger on and off. Changed the DC-in board (the only other printed circuit besides the main logic board) and it went to normal speed. It made the SMC decide to go into slow mode, to avoid bursting the battery or grilling the GPU. It took me a year to realize that one of these was slower because the magcharger was constantly flopping around. But in realtime processing it can be a pita. Doesn't matter for 99,9% of applications. I am stunned to hear about 2 identical 5K imacs, performing very differently. Intel is scrapping entire divisions (wearables, fi).

Recently, the leading Intel X86 engineer has left the company, after many of it's high-level execs. Most of these fixing tools will be unavailable under High Sierra, as 3rd party kernel extensions are no longer allowed. Besides audio, the machine worked perfectly. I'm not sure I would have been able to convince Apple there was a problem if I hadn't had two identical machines, ordered at the same time, with near consecutive serials.

I was told to include the original packaging at least six times. In this case, none of the usual fixing tools worked.ДЇinally, we sent the unstable one back to Apple, to be sold to some other unknowing customer probably. I've installed 2 identical new 5K imacs recently. But you'd better make damned sure the cooling paste on the CPU is OK.

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This doesn't apply to the Mac Pro of course. I've never seen cooling problems, but you have to be aware that these Intel Mobile processors can't cope with running at boost speeds continuously. And sometimes the Mac starts flip-flopping. It doesn't matter if it is USB or FW or TB. In rare cases it creates a sync problem with audio interfaces when it switches. On most macs, it doesn't switch when you're working in a DAW. The problem is the CPU frequency switching. I've used it on a few macs I couldn't get stable audio on otherwise. You have to have some mayhem going on to even compare these settings. Small projects run with no issues even with buggy plugins that might start to show problems in a large project. Again, this was tested with a mix with over 200 tracks up and a number of 3rd party plugins that Reaper clearly doesn't like (Universal Audio).

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(In direct contrast to conventional wisdom for DAW setup.) I have since seen this one argued back and forth and I honestly kind of forgot about it since everything works and I'm not sure even how to max out the system with audio work beyond using known buggy plugins. When I compared this it seemed to ring true. It was the general recommendation to disable hyperthreading and enable all core use because Reaper likes to manage it's own multicore use. The secret is to disable AfxP for any track with an incompatible 3rd party plugin inserted.ДЄround the time I discovered that bit I also turned hyperthreading off and set the CPU core use from 1 to the number of physical cores (8 in my case). Turning AfxP off globally however is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

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The telltale for that is crashy behavior with nowhere near full CPU use. The only near show stopper I experienced was 3rd party plugins that don't work with Reaper's anticipative fx processing feature. Either the 36 input rig for live sound + multitrack recording or studio projects with 200-300 tracks and plugins with HD audio and 5.1 mixing. I also have a Mac Pro (2009 model in signature) and I haven't found a way to max it out with audio yet. I haven't actually investigated closely myself when/if/what conditions turbo boost kicks in normally when using Reaper. Is the link really only given in a youtube video? People usually do that when trying to hide things that otherwise get taken down quickly.ДЄnother of the premises is the stock OSX fan control will no longer work with this utility installed?! Don't like the sound of that! So this utility overrides whatever that restriction is? The premise seems to be that some apps will for some reason not let turbo boost engage normally when the demand comes up. Well, I initially see a lot of red flags here.