New mac pro purchase advice ASAP

[jb502]

Ya think? Did you get the restore discs? Get up to 10.6.6. At least then you can draw a line in the sand. Who puts 10.7b on a Mac they are selling? Nothing is finished on it.

No idea. I was aware that it had lion on it when i bought it, and I thought I would try it out. But having cuda not work is not an option, as that is the only reason I bought the gtx 285. I've got 10.66 installed, and have all the cuda drivers installed. Installing premeire pro as i type this. I really hope it works. The gtx 285 i bought is a flashed pc version. Would that stop it from working with premeire's mercury playback engine? I don't think it would, but maybe somebody here knows something I don't. The card is working fine with everything else, and shows up just as it should.

 

[jb502]

it works, i'm happy. Premeire pro also takes advantage of all cores and hyper threading. guess I mad the right choice of not picking the 6 core. On export I saw 1400% cpu utilization. Awesome. Thats pretty damn good. This smokes my 2008 2.8 8 core.

 

[gpzjock]

You should be getting 100% more grunt on multithread applications over your 3,1 2008 Octo. Feel the love.

 

[Macshroomer]

Thats exactly what I have noticed with 6 core
Big hype about speed and test programs, but in real life
8 core crushed 6 core in lightroom (a true multicore program for exports) resize from raw and export to half size jpg and resize 2000 images from 26 Mb each to 500kb each

50 gig of folders took just over 62 min where 8 core westmere took less than 47 min
OK 6 core had 24 gig of ram where 8 core had 48

but still very impressive for 8 core

Both systems where asked to run Time Machine new complete back from zero at the same time

both 1 gig drives had 400 gig of files on them

Like I sad maybe in a day to day aps like aperture or photoshop may be faster, maybe even in regular edits in lightroom
but when asked to perform to max core thread output
more cores meen more power
BTW I have not noticed difference between the two 6 or 8 core just working in Aperture or Photoshop
Even using NIK or NX2 software was not a big deal they both worked with the same speed

If one was slower not by much

Since I work with very large amount of files export import and work on files at the same time more cores is much better
I know 12 or soon 16 will be better but for now 8 will do the job

for day to day use my 3.06 imac was as fast as the 8 core MP.

I had 6 core for less than a week and it went back to the store as it almost was a fast as my new 27" imac running with 16 gig of ram

When talking to apple they recommended a min of 8 core to notice a difference

If you ever had to wait for some exports to be completed before you can do more edits you will know

and i'm not talking about single file edits

I'm talking about editing 50 files or more at once

Interesting stuff, I have had some friends who are pretty heavy hitting shooters tell me that the 6 x 3.33 was overall the best machine they had used in terms of raw output and dealing with large files. But I know what you mean about multi-threading Lightroom, watching all those little progress bars race each other.

I have the 6 x 3.33 showing up on Tuesday, big ram upgrade, SSD, etc.
What I need my machine to do most are export raw to Jpeg or tiff as fast as possible, large stitch jobs and above all else, medium format scans and work with those scans in CS5 with as much efficiency as possible. Clients want things faster and faster these days, but I still want to have a live that is not on a computer, so this *has* to be fast.

But then again, anything is going to be faster than my current 2.66 1,1 from 2006...