[Damian Smith]

Hi Steff,
I am also about to buy a 690 and put it in a desktop expander 2.

However, the varying results above do worry me.

If you were in my situation, knowing the technology better than I, what would you recommend?

My current configuration without the CUBIX is a 5770 card for monitoring with a single quadro 4000 for resolve in my 12 core 2.66 MACpro.

This was absolutely fine in speed until I upgraded to resolve 9.03. Now it just lags on everything. Pro res Alexa plays at about 15fps. Its pretty shit. With three nodes it now drops to 5fps.

Previously, in resolve this same file would have taken 10 nodes to slow that much. Thanks Blackmagic. Awesome.

This is why I have ordered a cubix. Currently on the shelf I have a spare quadro 4000 incase the first fails.
I would see myself putting this in to the CUBIX, with the first one and then one or two more cards depending on which.

Compared to my quadro’s, I dont see the 690 as a expensive card. Its about what I paid for the quadro when it was first released.

So I guess what I am asking is – without reinventing the wheel, is the 690 the best option for a MAC CUBIX expansion – to compliment the 2 quardo’s or would I get better performance from something else?

Regards
Damian