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Hello !
After a lot of help on this forum about how Mac works with photoshop, I've decided to make a move and get a mac, for heavy photoshop painting, but I do have a bunch of questions about the hardware, there's some things I cannot understand, I hope you have the time to help me, I'd really appreciate it
How do I raid SSD's without a RAID card ona 2010 Macpro? it says in the "configure your mac" that SSD's aren't compatible with a RAID card, is there an on board raid controller for a potential SSD Raid? Or should it be done the software way I read about on the net?
If I use photoshop a lot, I need the fastest cpu but not necessarilly 12 cores, though I'd like to have a lot of memory so it narrows it down to a 12 core if i want more than 16 gb
But will I experience slower photoshop performance on two 2,9 ghz Westmere's than on one 3,3 ghz westmere?
(according to this cpu benchmark site, the intel Xeon X5680 @ 3,33 ghz is more expensive but slower than the xeon X5670 @ 2,93 ghz, am I even looking at the right CPU's? it doesnt say more than "westmere" at apple's site PassMark Intel vs AMD CPU Benchmarks - High End
Do I need anything else than these two SSD's if I want to RAID0 them? 200GB Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD 2.5" Seria... (SSDMXRE200) at OWC
Is it better to have a set of 3-6 when it comes to DDR3 memories or do I get the same performance if they come in pairs of 2-4-8 ? does that even matter? (in other words, is it better to get 24gb as 3x8gb modules than 32, 4x8 modules
Hope you have time for my noob questions thank you
After a lot of help on this forum about how Mac works with photoshop, I've decided to make a move and get a mac, for heavy photoshop painting, but I do have a bunch of questions about the hardware, there's some things I cannot understand, I hope you have the time to help me, I'd really appreciate it
How do I raid SSD's without a RAID card ona 2010 Macpro? it says in the "configure your mac" that SSD's aren't compatible with a RAID card, is there an on board raid controller for a potential SSD Raid? Or should it be done the software way I read about on the net?
If I use photoshop a lot, I need the fastest cpu but not necessarilly 12 cores, though I'd like to have a lot of memory so it narrows it down to a 12 core if i want more than 16 gb
But will I experience slower photoshop performance on two 2,9 ghz Westmere's than on one 3,3 ghz westmere?
(according to this cpu benchmark site, the intel Xeon X5680 @ 3,33 ghz is more expensive but slower than the xeon X5670 @ 2,93 ghz, am I even looking at the right CPU's? it doesnt say more than "westmere" at apple's site PassMark Intel vs AMD CPU Benchmarks - High End
Do I need anything else than these two SSD's if I want to RAID0 them? 200GB Mercury Extreme Pro RE SSD 2.5" Seria... (SSDMXRE200) at OWC
Is it better to have a set of 3-6 when it comes to DDR3 memories or do I get the same performance if they come in pairs of 2-4-8 ? does that even matter?
(in other words, is it better to get 24gb as 3x8gb modules than 32, 4x8 modulesHope you have time for my noob questions
thank you
