Socialnotworking wrote: β25 Aug 2018
The two regularly sited complaints about OCs on DAWs are increased noise especially when using external interfaces to record audio into Reason
A cpu's clock has nothing to do with "noise" in a DAW, although some lower quality audio interfaces might have issues if their drivers (or hardware) are buggy. This is also often related to how your USB port handles system overclocks. Some behave better than others. Indeed, YMMV...
Socialnotworking wrote: β25 Aug 2018
and the challenge increased temperatures present to silent system design. DAW designers tend to want everything as cool and quiet as possible because the last thing you want is the sound of CPU fans ruining your delicate guitar or vocal track
True, depending on your cooling solution, your silent rig might have issues. That said, this is easily addressed in any small home recording studio. A simple mic filter (such as SE Electronics Reflexion series) can have a massive effect on room noise. I've had great success with this on my overclocked system. I've also made a small acoustically damped panel that I can sit in front of my PC if the noise bleeds into any live recordings. A little effort goes a long way.
Socialnotworking wrote: β25 Aug 2018
I did run at various OC settings and the difference between 4.0ghz and 4.8ghz wasn't huge, it was way less than you would think on the 8700k.
Indeed, YMMV. Overclocking from my stock 3.5 Ghz to 4.5 Ghz has shown massive improvements on my old 3770k.
Socialnotworking wrote: β25 Aug 2018
One bit of advice I was given was to install R10 on a secondary SSD along with the patch collections as allegedly this does help load times for hypersamples.
You're part of the way there. Installing Reason and any samples/refills/whatever on an SSD will speed up load times all around, not just on hypersmaples. More like -
any samples.
This is compared to older mechanical hard drives, of course. If you can install your OS on an SSD, you'll also have a massive speed increase over older mechanical drives. But if you're indeed running a true "silent system design", you already have SSD's. Right?
Socialnotworking wrote: β25 Aug 2018
Turning off HT in R10 reduced the performance whereas the biggest increase came from using the DX primary sound driver with 8k samples.
In the heavy test this increased time by 5 seconds over the Asio I use for the Saffire.
Indeed, HT performance is hit or miss with Reason. In some instances, it improves performance noticeably on my system (usually with large projects that have complex instrument/effect chains and/or Combi tied to their own mix channels). But when I'm auditioning presets or just loading up one or two VST, if I turn HT off I get much better performance. Weird!
That said, you must use ASIO drivers in Reason if you want to record audio. DX sound is not acceptable for a serious pro recording setup. Latency is laughable.