[Jonathon Lee]

This has to do with the number of “memory channels” inherent in the Nehalem and Westmere processors. I know that the Nehalem’s used in the Mac Pro’s have 3 memory channels per processor (as I understand it). So, for optimal memory handling RAM needs to be installed in matched, congruent sets.

I know, it broke my heart to leave an empty DIMM slot! I installed 6x 4GB DIMMS for 24GB of RAM. This was the most cost effective config. Using the 8GB DIMM’s were too rich for my blood.

I’m not an expert on this stuff, but this is how I understand it. Here is a link to the wikipedia page for the Intel Xeon processor line. It is a little geeky, but helpful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehalem_%28microarchitecture%29

– Jonathon

[Jonathon Lee]

I too am trying to figure out which video i/o card with HDMI will work directly connected to the HP Dream Color.

The Dream Color needs RGB + true progressive in order for it’s color profiling system to work. I was hoping the Intensity would work, however, it looks as though it only passes YUV 422 (YCbCr do they mean?). The Decklink HD Ext 3D supports RGB & YUV in general, but is not specified on the spec sheet as to wether it supports RGB 444 via the HDMI port. My guess is yes???

I want to avoid having to put an SDI to HDMI/DP converter inline with the monitor. Looks like the AJA K3G supports RGB over HDMI too. I heard BM may support 3rd party i/o boards at some point. I’m one of those people trying to cram a Smoke and Resolve into the same box. 20 pounds of gold into a 5 pound bag or so the saying goes? Ultimately I’d rather use the BM card due to cost. So if Autodesk supports the DL card and BM supports the MC Color panel and nvidia releases Q5 or Q6 for mac… I’m in biz. But, looks like another PCI-e expansion chassis is in my future. Boo.

[Jonathon Lee]

So the Intensity may work or for sure will NOT work? thanks!

[Jonathon Lee]

I hope so too!