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Motion & new Mac Pros
Is it worth it to get a new Mac Pro? I produce mostly 30 sec spots in Motion, which is ram and gpu intensive, right? Only uses 1 core at a time? Or should I hedge on Motion 5 going multiple core – my firm can prob afford it, but don\\\\\\\’t want to piss $$$ away – already have an octocore, but they only help in compressor – right? Or am I woefully misinformed?
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If you’re already running an 8-core, I don’t think you’re going to see much of an improvement with 12 for exactly the reasons you state.
Let’s hope the next version of FCS is fully multi-core.
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So that said, would this configuration make sense for an additional Mac Pro for Motion?:
Two 2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Westmere” (8 cores)
16GB (8x2GB)
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB
…$1k less than the base 12core, but still get the 64 bit kernel… and I assume get the new card for my current machine:
2 Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz
L2 Cache (per processor): 12 MB
Memory: 14 GB
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT -
Well, if you’re going to buy another machine anyway, I’d say go ahead and get a 12-core. Because then you’re sitting pretty if/when the next version of Motion is fully multi-core capable, you’ll have those additional 4 cores available to your QCluster until then, and you’ll be investing in current-version technology instead of being one version behind from day one.
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