[Tad Newberry]

ah, even if in pairs?

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

thanks, but why “start over”? could i not leave (2) of my 1 GB’s in their slots and add in (2) 2 GBs to the other 2 slots giving me a total of 6GB for the moment? that would double my current 6 GB…

(just wondering why, because i do not know!) : )

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

hey, that’s pretty cool at crucial…and i had no idea my Mac can take 16GB of RAM!!!! somehow i was thinking 6 was the limit when i bought it. oh well…

i know you CAN mix and match different amounts of RAM, though it seems to not be recommended, but is there a down side to keeping my 3 single 1GB chips and just adding in a 2 or 4 GB chip in the available slot?

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

So i don’t muck up this forum any more than i need to with off-topic concerns, do any of you know of a central place to find out precisely what the RAM limit would be on my system? How RAM might be mixed and matched in my system? Which graphics cards will not only work in my system, but also reviewed as to best performance vs. price, etc.

(Now for anyone who might want to answer those questions here, here is my what i know for my Mac Pro Quad-Cor intel Xeon 2.66GHz Mac:

currently has 3 of 4 RAM slots each filled with a 1GB DDR3 1066 MHz RAM chip; (1 slot empty)

currently has the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, though i am seeing everyday more and more how dang slow my screen redraws are.

i’ve heard a few good reviews from you guys on the ATI4870…are there other options? better? faster? for this Mac?

thanks again…

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

The Mac site specs this as one of the graphics cards for this Quad-core Mac Pro – ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB. Anybody out there with this card? How do you like it?

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

that’s kind of what i figured…thanks for the lesson! : )

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

faster rendering, too? i’ve been thinking about a raid for awhile…but a bit confused on what to get, whether to set it up for speed, redundancy redundancy redundancy or both?

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

My two main ones (each Seagate Barracuda 7200 1.5TB) are internal SATA drives. i do have some media on my external drives, though, but the vast bulk of it is internal (not sure of the speed of the drives, but they are 1 year old seagates…

but AHA! I just went to Disk Utility to look the drives. One of my media drives has “Partition Map Scheme: GUID Partition Table”, the other’s scheme is “Apple Partition Map”. What would be the difference in performance here???

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TeraBytes o’ storage
(then it’s on to PetaBytes, ExaBytes and MosquitoBytes!)

[Tad Newberry]

what was your timeline? were you using “share” or “export”?

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TerraBytes o’ storage

[Tad Newberry]

ya, that’s what i was doing with FCP6, just feeling out the benefits of “share” vs. “export”.

right now “sharing” a 9 minute piece from my ProRes timeline, and sharing it with the iPod-m4v setting. So far, it’s rendered for an hour, with an approximate hour to go. seems abnormally long/slow…

thanks for helping out a bonehead!
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2.66 GHz Quad-Core Mac Pro
3GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 120
…and a few TerraBytes o’ storage