Performance issues – video card related?

[Eddie Adams]

yeah, it would.. but im cutting interviews and rely heavily on the waveforms, so im SOL there.

[Eddie Adams]

[Michael Garber] “You don’t want to edit from a mirrored drive set. That will slow you down. Best to edit from either a RAID 0 or a RAID 5.
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That’s what they say – but I see no difference in speed tests between a RAID 1 and a non-RAID set-up. Perhaps a RAID 0 would increase speed, but at 120 MB/s that doesn’t seem to be what’s causing my performance issues.

[Eddie Adams]

Wanted to follow up on this with my results. I dropped in the Nvidia GTX 650, a 1GB GPU, and didn’t see any real results. Returned the card for the GTX 660, a 2GB GPU, and saw some results, but still very disappointed at the lack of any significant improvement in performance within FCPX. I did a fresh install on my machine (remember that its a Hackintosh, running ML 10.8.3), and STILL didn’t see any improvement. I was stumped…

UNTIL

I switched my System Profile (through Multibeast) from Mac Mini to MacPro3,1 — and VIOLA! FCPX now runs SMOOTH LIKE BUTTA’!

So, if you’re experiencing similar issues on your hackintosh, try switching your system profile. Hope this helps.