best mac for Kona

[Bob Zelin]

this will work just fine (and be outdated in 2 – 3 years).

Bob Zelin

[Fred Connors jr.]

Hi Bob

Have you installed any of the 12 core machines with Kona-3 and Atto-R380 cards? Any driver issues?

Thanks

Fred

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[Bob Zelin]

I am installing one RIGHT NOW as we type here. I will let you know. I doubt there will be any issues as this is really the same damn computer as the previous generation with more processors in it. The slots, the OS, the chipsets have not changed.

Bob

[John Davidson]

According to the engineers an Enhance (as of last week), the ATTO R380 does not work well with Western Digital 2Tb drives Something about the intel chipset not getting along well with the card. Go with Hitachi perhaps, or get the Areca card. Just put together my system on a 12 core and it’s great. The Kona 3 is very happy.

[Jeremy Garchow]

How’s the 12 core pow pow power?

Any difference?

[John Davidson]

Coming from an octo 2.8 Harpertown, I’d been running into some annoyingly long wait times in After Effects, so I decided to just go a little nuts and get 64 gigs of RAM, 2.93 12 core, and a 512 SSD for the OS. Final Cut is certainly more robust. I’d noticed for the last year or so that working in HD I’d have a slight video delay when playing back on my monitor for clients – that’s gone. The real bump comes in CS5 though. After Effects ram previous are ridiculously fast now. The SSD is snappy. The best news is, Aperture actually sort of works.

I can’t wait for 64bit Final Cut Studio. Who knows when that’ll ever happen though – unless the find a way to put it on a phone.

[Fred Connors jr.]

How are you getting 64GB of ram in there…

Who is making 8GB DDR3-1333 PC3 DIMMS?

Thanks

Fred

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[Fred Connors jr.]

Never mind

OWC is selling 8GB DIMMs

A bit pricey.

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