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optimal way to plug in Tbolt peripherals into new MacPro?
Just received my MacPro.
I’ve read that one should not plug monitors into the same thunderbolt bus. Any other recommendations for optimal plug in choices for peripherals with new MacPro?
Promise Pegasus2 R4, Matrox adaptor to MXO2-LE w/Max, 30″ and 23″ ACD, and Belkin Tbolt Express Dock.
Thanks, James
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After lots of testing I ended up putting both my monitors on one bus. However the lower of the two bus connectors is primary. So I put my main monitor on the lower connector and my second monitor above it on the same bus. I have my Pegasus raid on it’s own bus and the AJA XT thunderbolt on it own bus. I tried both the BM Mini Monitor & the AJA T-Tap and couldn’t get audio to sync unless they both were set to use the same output. In my case that was HDMI. Once I started using the AJA IO XT thunderbolt all the sync problems cleared up!
Dajen Productions, Santa Barbara, CA
Mac Pro 3.5MHz 6-Core Late 2013
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Dave, looking at the mapping of port numbers in the article Jeremy linked to, please specify the port numbers for each device. When your post mentioned “lower” were primary, it’s not clear (at least to me). Thanks.
Rick Lang
iMac 27” 2.8GHz i7 16GB
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I also have a new Mac Pro. 12 cores. Maxed to the hilt.
At first i put all three monitors on Bus 0. That’s the HDMI at the bottom (for timeline output) and two monitors on the bottom ports (across). The Mac Pro would only light up two of the monitors.
Then I read the support article and I put one monitor on each bus. Perfect. All three light up and FCPX can now choose to use the display on the HDMI port as a timeline output display. I have three Thunderbolt drives and I also distributed them among the three buses. Things work well now.
NewsVideo.com
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Are you using a dual-link monitor or two, or just single-link monitor connections?
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