I am in the market for a new PC. It has been a while however I was running Abelton and NI Komplete on a 2015 MacBook pro Intel QuadCore 2.8 GZ. It ran well for a while then after some OS updates started struggling with Reactor and Maschine. Even on the simplest of projects with all tracks frozen.
Now on to the present day, I was about to pull the trigger on an Intel Core i9-14900KS - Core i9 14th Gen Raptor Lake 24-Core (8P+16E) LGA 1700. Windows 11 NVMe drive and go with 64 GB DDR 5. I am reading posts about the new Hybrid Architectures struggling with the NI and Audio applications.
Does anyone have a recent build with an Intel 14th gen processor, do you have feedback?
Should I look to AMD or Mac (really want to avoid Mac if possible)?
Would I be better off sourcing a non-hybrid CPU? like the Adlerlake 12th gen.
What is the best CPU in your opinion currently for NI?
Any feedback or insight is greatly appreciated. It is terrible when technology impedes creativity.
Additonal notes - I could live without the complex reactor sets, I really would like to lean on the Maschine though, and Massive. I am currently at Ableton 11, and Komplete 12 I will likely upgrade to the latest versions when the build is complete.