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Quad Core Users with Axio LE
I’m currently running a Tyan moboard with dual Opteron 280s. Looking to upgrade to dual quadcores. If you’ve successfully made this journey (and are using the Matrox Axio LE), can you please give me specs like moboard, processors, memory (brand & speed) & video card info? As I said to Eric, I’d love to cheat and not have to do my homework!
Thanks in advance,Jamie Hoarty
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I wonder if you could upgrade to Opteron quadcores and not have to change your motherboard?
Anyway, if you want to switch to quad core Xeons, they seem to work well from my experience. We also have an RTX2 system with a single Core2Quad processor, and it works very well.
One of the cool things is that the Matrox/Adobe/Octocore setup really seems to take maximum advantage of this processing power. When I export MPEG files for DVD and Blu-Ray, the performance graph in task manager shows all 8 cores running over 90%. Combine that with the hardware acceleration on the Matrox card, and the GPU acceleration (if you are using filters or DVE effects), it’s about as fast as things get in early ’08.
Vincent asked about storage. We are using the ProAvio R14HDS array, which is a dual controller SATA/SCSI system with 14 drives. Each controller (7 drives each) is running RAID 5, and both controllers are striped RAID 0 in Windows. This gives us a solid 400 MB/s, which is adequate for dual stream 10-bit uncompressed 1080i. We are using an Atto dual channel SCSI card, which seems to perform better than mobo-based SCSI.
Lately I have been looking into SAS basaed storage, which seems to offer some speed advantages. Check out the Enhance Technologies offerings. I have stayed away from HBA-based RAID controllers (3Ware), because Matrox says these systems can tie up CPU resources, and lower the performance of their systems.
The Enhance-Tech boxes put the RAID controller in the array, so they supposedly don’t have this issue.
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