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Miraculous
People rarely post when they’re happy. But I just want to say that after months of yearning and weeks of obsessing and driving everybody crazy with my questions, I finally got the brand new 8-core up and running.
And I’m having a love affair with CS3.
It seems as if everything goes MUCH MORE than twice as fast as it did on my old G5.
I bought it for After Effects, and it does what was promised.
Spent too much but life is short. Too short for the render times I used to have to deal with. -
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Congrats! Just make sure to load that puppy up with 2GB RAM per CPU (16GB in your case) to ensure that multiprocessor functionality uses all 8 cores.
You can get affordable, Apple Certified RAM from Other world Computing for a fraction of the price Apple charges. I have used it in 7 Mac Pros at my studio and it seems to work great.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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If you want to see something spectacular…..get 8 gigs of ram and get a plug in called Nucleo Pro 2.
Its like having Warp Drive on your 8 core. It makes AE into something with the render speed and power of a FLAME . Truly awe inspiring! -
That’s where I got it. I’ve got 14 gigs of ram. After I catch my breath and balance my books I’ll get another set of four and dispense with the original 2 gigs.
I really don’t see how things could go any faster, though. I’ve checked and double checked, and here’s the results of a recent (accidental) test.
I’ve got a comp I wanted to make changes to. It has several nested comps, all 3d, and a ton of effects, both in the nested comps and in the parent comp. I just rendered it out on the 8-core (to a couple of striped SATA II 10,000 drives) in 2 seconds. Two seconds.
I glanced at the render queue and the last time I rendered this same piece I did it on the g5 dual 2.5 and it took 20 minutes!!! Twenty minutes.
Now, I must have been doing something wrong before for such a marked difference.
This new machine has no added apps. It has AE CS3, FCP, and Photoshop.My head is spinning. I’m in LOVE with this computer and with 8.0.2.
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