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RAM performance with Mac Pro 6-Core
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<blockquote data-quote="parasbuy" data-source="post: 1174845" data-attributes="member: 189066"><p>Hi All,</p><p></p><p>I have a 3.33GHz 6-core Xeon Mac Pro with 16GB of RAM, but looking at the CPU Meters, etc., it seems like I'm not getting full use out of the system. My CPU usage gets up to 4% sometimes and the RAM doesn't get much higher than 14%. I am running some pretty intense software... Solidworks CAD Simulation, Photoshop, Lightroom, Video, etc., and the system seems to be a bit slow and taking some time to load/process; but the CPU and RAM meters barely change any higher.</p><p></p><p>Can adjust my system configurations to better take advantage of these? What else should I be doing to improve the performance? Is there a way to get a much faster boot-up speed, or just much faster processing of Photoshop and Solidworks rendering, for example... me thinks it shouldn't be choppy with all this firepower.</p><p></p><p>I'm running Mac Pro 10.6.6 and Windows 7 64-bit via Boot Camp. 1TB hard drive 7.2k RPM.</p><p></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>parasbuy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="parasbuy, post: 1174845, member: 189066"] Hi All, I have a 3.33GHz 6-core Xeon Mac Pro with 16GB of RAM, but looking at the CPU Meters, etc., it seems like I'm not getting full use out of the system. My CPU usage gets up to 4% sometimes and the RAM doesn't get much higher than 14%. I am running some pretty intense software... Solidworks CAD Simulation, Photoshop, Lightroom, Video, etc., and the system seems to be a bit slow and taking some time to load/process; but the CPU and RAM meters barely change any higher. Can adjust my system configurations to better take advantage of these? What else should I be doing to improve the performance? Is there a way to get a much faster boot-up speed, or just much faster processing of Photoshop and Solidworks rendering, for example... me thinks it shouldn't be choppy with all this firepower. I'm running Mac Pro 10.6.6 and Windows 7 64-bit via Boot Camp. 1TB hard drive 7.2k RPM. Thanks, parasbuy [/QUOTE]
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