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sirroderick

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Jun 13, 2018
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I'm getting a 2nd 3.46GHz 12-core 5,1 Mac Pro specifically for audio sample streaming via VEP6. I'll probably go the DVD Bay route for the OS SSD to maximise available PCI bandwidth and I'll probably put a GTX 680 in slot 1. That leaves slots 2,3 & 4 for PCI SSD cards. The aim is to optimise the balance between cost, capacity & read speed. The latter is obviously ultimately constrained by the PCIe 2.0 hardware itself so what are the real world limits for these machines?

There must be others who've trodden this path - any words of wisdom? Also is it advisable to go for maxing out RAM to 128GB? Some say it's best to leave some slots free.
 
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