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Hardware questons
My SYSTEM
MAC dual G5 2.5 gig. 4.5 gb RAM. OS 10.3.8
Blackmagic Decklink Extreme card v4.8b
FCP 4.5 production Suite
500GB G-Raid Firewire800
Decks = Beta-SP, DVCpro, DigiBeta.
Audio Mix = Mackie 1604 VLZpro
I believe I have the stock display cardWill I improve performance on the 800FW going to a PCI card rather than the FW on the back of the MAC?
What display crad can I upgrade to to improve refresh rate?
I don’t want the Radion that takes up 2 slots.Thanks on advance
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[Ed Stevens] “Will I improve performance on the 800FW going to a PCI card rather than the FW on the back of the MAC?”
Hi Ed, you won’t improve performance unless you are capturing from DV sources through Firewire (not through your BlackMagic card). If that is the case, then I would get a FW card so you are not capturing through the same FW bus that your FW hard drive is on.
[Ed Stevens] “What display crad can I upgrade to to improve refresh rate?
I don’t want the Radion that takes up 2 slots.”The Radeon cards don’t take up 2 slots. Its the nvidia 6800 cards that do that. The ATI Radeon X800 (or X850) is the card I use and would recommend: https://www.ati.com/products/radeonx800/radeonX800xtme/index.html
Tony!
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