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MacPro Edit Suite
Hello!
I’m looking to upgrade my current Mac tower (G5, PowerPC). I’ve got a budget of about $5,000 and have come up with the following setup…
8-core, 16GB Tower: $3,800
3 1TB Seagate Barracuda SATA drives: 90×3=$270
CalDigit RAID card: $645That comes to $4,715. Is there anything else that you all would strongly recommend adding to that? Any major reason to upgrade the graphics card?
I should mention I have a dual monitor setup that works fine as well as a Kona LHe card.
Thanks very much!
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5 Replies
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HD Monitor
Studio Audio MonitorsKevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
[James Whittington] “Is there anything else that you all would strongly recommend adding to that?”
Apple Care is a MUST!
There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
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If you are going to be making money with this setup, you want a card specifically for Motion, the 4870 or 4780, whatever they’re calling it now.
You want CS4.
You want to replace the chair at your editing desk.bogiesan
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Haha…very nice.
Don’t use Motion very often. Tend to use After Effects for all my motion graphics needs.
Chair is sufficient but I wouldn’t be opposed to an upgrade!
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don’t get the ram from Apple, get it from a 3rd party for a lot less
why are you getting the raid card ? you can stripe a raid with the internal drives & OS X. raid card only makes sense to connect to external storage
and that kona card probably won’t work because unless your G5 was the last generation, they have PCI-X slots, not PCIe. in that case, the kona card is a boat anchor.
in which case you need to look at some sort of video I/O, and I think the better choice is the matrox hardware once you look at price / performance / options in product line including the h264 encode acceleration.
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