MacPro with 1900XT and Aperture?

[PALitig8r]

Well, my 2GB, X1900 Mac Pro is arriving on Monday, so I'll fire up Aperture and post reactions. I'll be really disappointed if it performs the same as the machine I saw in the apple store. I'll also use a striped 720GB RAID 0 (two 360GB drives) to run the application and store the library. If anyone can think of anything else to speed it up (short of adding more, very expensive RAM), let me know.

Whatever it looks like, I expect it will fly compared to my current iMac G5, 1GB setup.

 

[Mundy]

Seriously? Wow. So I got a machine even more powerful than I thought. Also iGary, why do you hate Aperture? I was considering buying it with a X1900XT when I got my Nikon D80. Is it worth the $150 I would spend?

Like most Apple software, Aperture has the infamous Version 1.0 Blues. And like most Apple software, I expect Aperture to be amazing once its development team gets more builds under their belt.

It's just a young application that needs a lot of tweaking and optimizing. Considering how ambitious the software is, it's amazing that it works so well.

 

[Mackeyser]

it's simple.

Each core within the chip operates at 2, 2.66 or 3 GHz.

The half speeds you have read about (likely) is the Front side bus speed which runs at half of the speed of the processor.

That said, the "speed" (a bad term, for sure) of the CHIP is NOT the sum total of the "speed" of the cores within the chip. The cores are not summed that way. The "speed" of the chip tells you how fast EACH CORE operates.

If we used your method, the Mac Pro would be a 4, 5.32 or 6 GHz Dual processor machine, rather than a 2, 2.66 or 3 GHz quad core machine it is.

 

[studiox]

You were thinking of HT which if you had a 2.66 GHz CPU with HT technology the OS would think it was two different processors each running at 1.33 GHz. Although dual core technology is different because they basically put two whole CPUs onto one CPU so you have basically two 2.66GHz CPUs.

HT Doesn't half the CPU clock speed either. With HT you have ONE processor running at the SPEED it's supposed to run at. The only difference is that i can handle more requests at the same time as it has more "pipelines". Those pipelines runs at the same clock speed.

 

[radiantm3]

Ram is going to make the biggest difference, although more ram + the 1900xt would be even better. Basically what I mean is, if you only have a gig of ram, you are limiting aperture no matter what GPU you have.

I'm using aperture on an intel quad 2.6 / 3 gigs of ram / 7300gt and it flies for me. I'm working with 8mp raw files.