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Solid Dual Processor Motherboard
Which is a good, solid dual-processor motherboard for use with the Decklink HD board?
Hopefully something fairly up-to-date which supports AGP8x or PCI-Express?
Xeon or Opteron, doesn’t matter.
Any advice from users would be appreciated.
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I have a single 3.2 Prescott at the moment, although I’m leaning towards getting a new dual core HT Extreme Edition 840 P4 for two-core four-thread processing. Apparently there are significant render speed increases with Premiere Pro 1.5 as per Intel’s testing with PPro, although it means new everything; mobo, DDR2, PCI-e 6800, etc, etc, etc…
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Hi Norman,
We have recently updated our recommended systems specs on our webpage. below is the link.
https://www.blackmagic-design.com/support/detail.asp?techID=47
cheers,
Regards,
Matt
Blackmagic Design -
Hi Matt,
I noticed that BMD no longer recommends the Supermicro X5DA8 motherboard. This of course was the motherboard I purchased last year.
Could you kindly explain the improvements, if there are any, of the Supermicro X6DA8G2 and the Supermicro X6DA8-G over the X5DA8 (related to the use of BMD products)?
Regards,
Paul Thurston -
Hi Paul,
The reason we did not put the X5 in was that they are quite hard to get now and have been superseded by the X6, thats all. The X5’s still work great! The main difference is that the X6 has a 800FSB.
Cheers,
Regards,
Matt
Blackmagic Design -
Hi,
I’m looking into purchasing a Decklink SP card so I ran through your new windows sys requirement list & had to ask one question-
It is stated that the HP XW9300 is certified but you do not mention the Tyan K8WE board which by all accounts seems to be the board this workstation is based upon.
Is there any issue with this board or is it just a case of not having tested it yet?Thanks in advance,
Gal
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I guy in a previous thread on May 29 indicated that the K8WE works. However, he said he had problems with the K8W.
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