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June 17th, 2006, 10:26 AM
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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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June 17th, 2006, 04:11 PM
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Out of curiosity, which graphics card did you get with your quad? HTH, Ron |
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June 19th, 2006, 12:41 PM
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June 19th, 2006, 12:50 PM
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The G5 Quad *is* a PPC-based Mac (as opposed to an Intel-based Mac). |
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June 19th, 2006, 01:13 PM
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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. HTH, Ron |
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