[Marc Weakley]

Hi guys, quick update. I didn’t mention that my MBP was open – so I could use the monitor along with the two external monitors being driven off the EGPU. Once I closed the MacBook things seemed to go a lot more smoother. I’m guessing the MBP driving its own monitor was influencing the operation of the EGPU.

I’m still somewhat disappointed with the performance, but a whole lot better. Cheers for your input, Marc

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Marc Weakley]

Hi Chris. Apologies for the delay. I have literally spent 40+ hours on this and I have had to squeeze some actual work in. Yes I tried your suggestion to no avail. It seems to play well, they it doesn’t. For example I am working on a PP project now – one stream of 4k video with basic Lumetri grade and it won’t even play stutter-free at 1/8th res – so disappointed.

I’m wondering if it has something to do with the machine simply not starting up with the EGPU plugged in. I have to start up, then plug in.

FYI I have included a screenshot of the ‘Activity Monitor’ while playing the timeline – it says ‘Utilisation 100%’ but it’s spluttering away at 1/8th. Also note the ‘Max Bandwidth/sec 5GB’ when TB3 is 40TB throughput. Cheers again, Marc

PS: I tried reaching out to AMD for tech support and they washed their hands of me pretty fast when I said it was in an EGPU – something about only supporting the card in an actual desktop – I guess they’re not there to make friends right.

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Marc Weakley]

Hi Andy, just checked and all three monitors (2 x HP, laptop) are set at 60 hz so yes. Physically cannot match the res as they’re different sized screens. Anything else you can think of? Cheers, Marc

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Marc Weakley]

Hi Chris, appreciate the ideas so I’ll address them one-by-one:

First off yes – this is a new card and, although it does not mention compatibility on the Razer sheet, there are quite a few users on he web who are using this card + box with their MBPs. And the Core X is compatible with every other card for Mac so I was confident it would work – others have pointed out the same thing as you and had zero issues.

1. Yes tried this and no noticeable change using CineBench (no idea what I’m doing but numbers look about the same).

2. testing shortly.

3.. The HP Dreamcolor Z32x is operating at the preferred 4K UHD 60 hz. No option to change to HD.

4. Yes tried every config I can think of: different ports, cables, no change.

5. Mac’s don’t require updates – it is built in to OSX and it recognises the card in the MBP menu bar.

Interestingly, when I take the monitors out of the equation the MacBook Pro flies along. Plug in an external monitor (either direct through MBP or through W5700) everything grinds to a halt. So does this mean it’s the machine and nothing to do with the card?

So frustrating, but will keep trying new things. Cheers again, Marc

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Marc Weakley]

Thanks Bob. As it transpired it was because the phantom power was turned on for bothg channels – which was never an issue before so that’s what was incredibly frustrating – I just didn’t think of it. As soon as I turned them off it was good to go.

Cheers again for the reply. Marc

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Marc Weakley]

Hmm, good to see I’m not alone here. Now we just need a guru to join in here with the silver bullet – ‘oh all you guys need to do hit ‘apple-F-I-X’ and you’re in business’. Like you Dustin I really want to love this but love’s hurtin real bad right now.

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Marc Weakley]

Hi Chris, the MBP is Nvidia GeForce 9600M.

This is so frustrating as all you hear is about how great PP CS5 is at rendering/playing and two of my four machines are completely unusable as I literally cannot play the videos.

Book still hasn’t arrived…cheers, Marc

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Marc Weakley]

Hey Cody yeah it’s a little frustrating to say the least. Even my 8-core Mac Pro seems to struggle scrubbing. Unfortunately it’s a deal-breaker for me as if I can’t watch the video I’m editing I can’t edit.

I have a ‘Classroom in a Book’ coming from Amazon so maybe an answer in there. I’ll let you know if I find out anything.

Cheers, Marc

Marc Weakley
Cereal TV
NZ

[Marc Weakley]

Cheers Paul. Yes they are Quicktime.

When I drop a clip onto the ‘new item’ tab and then check sequence settings it says my ‘Editing Mode’ is ‘AVC-Intra 100 1080p 50Hz’.

This was shot and ingested at EX HQ 1080i.

Remember this won’t even play smoothly in the source viewer. Bit of a headache.