Best Processor for Music Production (Logic Pro X - Hackintosh)

dewiepants

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Hi, I'm currently saving up to buy and build my first PC. I am currently studying Music Recording and Production so I have concerns in regards to which processor I should be looking at.

At first it was solely a gaming PC build, but it occurred to me that I could just buy an extra SSD and load it with Yosemite or something (make a hackintosh y'know) because ACM (where I study) uses Logic Pro X which is only for Mac. The reason for this is that I already have a Mac Mini (Late 2012) that I use for this purpose and when I have the PC I could rid myself of the little devil, not that I have any significant problems with it, but it will be a little extra cash in my pocket.

The Mac has an Intel i7-3615QM at 2.3Mhz which is performing adequately (is the nicest thing I can say about it since I have nothing to compare it to). It still sometimes lets me down when I try to playback a mix and the CPU-usage bar just completely fills out and stops the playback, a reboot usually fixes this and the track plays normally. Not sure if that's more an issue in the program or what but it is an i7 with hyper-threading and all that jazz (I don't know much about processors as you can see).

Well now I have narrowed my search down to two options: the i5 4690K 3.5Ghz or the i7 4790K 4.0Ghz. A comparison between the i5 4690K and the i7-3615QM currently in my Mac on CPUboss (link below) shows that the i5 generally performs better apart from the fact that the i7-3615QM has hyper-threading. However I do not see any performance-related benefits gained from the hyper-threading. And I was like "okay then"

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So my question for you today, fine sir or madam, is that if the lack of hyper-threading will in any way negatively affect my ability to record, playback and mix music. I have decided on the i5 4690K as a quality processor that is more than capable of running games, so do you think the extra 90/100$ is worth it getting the i7 4790K to benefit my music production capabilities if at all (using Logic Pro X/Hackintosh)?
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i5 4670K vs i7-3625QM - http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-3615QM-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4690K

My PC build specs:

Corsair 760T Arctic White Case
MSI Z97 Gaming 7 Motherboard
*CPU to be determined*
Corsair H105 Liquid CPU Cooler
Kingston HyperX Beast 16GB 1866Mhz RAM
Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD (OS)
WD Green 3TB HDD (Storage)
Gigabyte G1 Gaming GTX 970 4GB (3.5GB + 512MB) ;D xD (going SLI in the future)
EVGA SuperNova 750G2 / 850G2 PSU (they're the same price on Amazon right now..)

 

bmacsys

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I would go with a Xeon vs consumer i7. Cheaper, no crappy igpu and more L3 cache.
 

bmacsys

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Double post.