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Can AE utilize MAC PRO 8 core system?
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That cinches it for me! The warranty thing doesn’t mean much to me after a year anyhow… Thanks for the great link!
Later.
Dave
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the fact that apple added the 8 way as a new option vs making upgrades to the MB ( as far as we know right now) really makes the upgrade path seem to be a viable option.
who is that masked man…
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This link might be of interest. It basically says the memory and drives for your quad might not work when attempting to upgrade to 8 cores.
https://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070409103051875
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That’s troubling news. I’m wondering what the Anantech article was all about then. Maybe Apple is trying to quell any renegade upgraders out there (even though it would work)?
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Yeah, my first suspicion was that it was fear-mongering, planting a seed of doubt in would be do-it-yourselfers. No way to know for sure but try it. It won’t be me though.
Ben.
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Interesting article:
https://www.tomshardware.com/2007/03/26/the_gigahertz_battle/Its noteworthy because if something does not support multi-cores, well, then the cores are useless.
Nicholas Toth
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[Nicholastoth] “Its noteworthy because if something does not support multi-cores, well, then the cores are useless.”
Of course when mentioning this, it is important to note that most high-end applications as well as operating systems are well aware of the trend toward multiple-cores/multiple-processors and are designing their applications to take advantage.
It’s interesting that you drew such a different conclusion than the article’s authors:
“Whether we’re talking about one, two, four or more cores, clock speed is a good way to increase CPU performance. But it doesn’t replace an efficient multi-core architecture.” [emphasis added]
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Another thing to consider is…you could keep the 8core machine, get as much RAM as poss (2GB is possibly not great even for the quad though tbh..if you can afford 2 more GB of OEM ram, rather than Apple certified, that would serve you well.) Set Nucleo – presumably you’ll be using that, as without it AE currently won’t use anymore than 1 core – to only use 4 of the cores, and then when you can afford more RAM set it to access all 8?
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jimmybee500,
That is something to consider. Thanks for the recommendation. I think at this point, I’ll keep the quad and take my chances a year from now with an upgrade. Worst case is that I’d have to eBay the Clovertowns if they didn’t work out…
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Bangerang wuzelwazel!
If you check out the benchmarks with software that doesn’t support quad-cores, there is not a super dooper performance jump. It should be around a hypethetical 100% performance jump — and we really only see this in software that is meant to be run on the stations. And it makes you wonder about the other garbage we run on our boxes. How long has windows xp 64 been out? And how many drivers is it still missing? Will the day come when my 64core workstation can only use 2 cores in iTunes but rock 64 cores out of Cinema 4d?
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