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Old June 17th, 2006, 10:26 AM   #1
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New G5 Quad need advise

I just got my new G5 Quad with 4.5GB RAM, 250 GB system and 250 GB internal. I am running FCP Studio 5.0.4 ( all the latest upgrades ). I also have a whole bunch of FW drives (not all connected at same time). I wiil be working mostly HDV and DVCPRO HD.

Is there any setting that I should change to improove speed?
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Old June 17th, 2006, 04:11 PM   #2
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Is there any setting that I should change to improove speed?
Yes, get the FCS 5.1 crossgrade - it's noticably faster on PPC macs...

Out of curiosity, which graphics card did you get with your quad?

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Old June 19th, 2006, 12:41 PM   #3
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Yes, get the FCS 5.1 crossgrade - it's noticably faster on PPC macs...

Out of curiosity, which graphics card did you get with your quad?

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I have a G% Quad not the PPC and the graphic card that comes with it is the GeForce 6600
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Old June 19th, 2006, 12:50 PM   #4
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I have a G% Quad not the PPC...

The G5 Quad *is* a PPC-based Mac (as opposed to an Intel-based Mac).
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Old June 19th, 2006, 01:13 PM   #5
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PM G5 = IBM PPC970 family (in the quad's case it's the PPC970MP). It's PPC as good as it gets :)

The GF6600 is OK for FCP, but will give you mediocre performance in Motion or any other highly GPU-intensive app (e.g. Aperture, Maya, 3D-games, etc.). If this this does represent a bottleneck in your work, you may wish to look for a suitable PCIe graphics card as a replacement. At the moment, there are none available, but this will surely have changed by the end of the year.

That said, a beefier GPU will only minimally improve your FCP-performance, as FCP is mainly taxing CPU and I/O-subsystems.

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