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Hello everyone,
I'll be purchasing a Mac Pro in January and I'm in a bind in terms of how to configure the set up. For background I'm in video editing and currently use a Macbook Pro that has a 256MB ATI video card in it and it works great.
So looking to build this new computer I was content with the Mac Pro having:
3.00 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
4GB 667 DDR2 FB DMM ECC-2×512
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB
3 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive
16x SuperDrive DL
and
Airport Extreme & BT 2.0+EDR
but am thinking about the future in which I might have to purchase a copy of Avid. I have read the horror stories of people trying to run Avid with an ATI graphics card in which Avid support simply says "Try a Nvidia."
The thing is, I know I want a 512 MB video card and the Nvidia is over $1000 more taked on to the price than the ATI. At this point the Mac Pro becomes too expensive so I'm deciding if I should get a more core version of the Mac pro which would have:
3.00 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
1GB 667 DDR2 FB DMM ECC-2×512
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive
16x SuperDrive DL
Airport Extreme & BT 2.0+EDR
and buy some cheaper memory and hard drives so I could get the more expensive Nvidia graphics card. Does FCP run as good on Nvidia cards? If so shouldnt I just get an Nvidia card so I can run both editing systems? My only concern is buying the memory and HDDs and not having them run as efficient as the stuff pre-loaded by Apple.
Heres a link to an upgrade this guy did in which I would get the same HDDs and memory, just not as much to cut down on price so I can get the Nvidia.
Link: http://macsaregreat.com/?p=54
Memory
Hard drives
I would like some advice on my situation ;D
Thanks in advance.
I'll be purchasing a Mac Pro in January and I'm in a bind in terms of how to configure the set up. For background I'm in video editing and currently use a Macbook Pro that has a 256MB ATI video card in it and it works great.
So looking to build this new computer I was content with the Mac Pro having:
3.00 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
4GB 667 DDR2 FB DMM ECC-2×512
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512MB
3 500GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive
16x SuperDrive DL
and
Airport Extreme & BT 2.0+EDR
but am thinking about the future in which I might have to purchase a copy of Avid. I have read the horror stories of people trying to run Avid with an ATI graphics card in which Avid support simply says "Try a Nvidia."
The thing is, I know I want a 512 MB video card and the Nvidia is over $1000 more taked on to the price than the ATI. At this point the Mac Pro becomes too expensive so I'm deciding if I should get a more core version of the Mac pro which would have:
3.00 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
1GB 667 DDR2 FB DMM ECC-2×512
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s drive
16x SuperDrive DL
Airport Extreme & BT 2.0+EDR
and buy some cheaper memory and hard drives so I could get the more expensive Nvidia graphics card. Does FCP run as good on Nvidia cards? If so shouldnt I just get an Nvidia card so I can run both editing systems? My only concern is buying the memory and HDDs and not having them run as efficient as the stuff pre-loaded by Apple.
Heres a link to an upgrade this guy did in which I would get the same HDDs and memory, just not as much to cut down on price so I can get the Nvidia.
Link: http://macsaregreat.com/?p=54
Memory
Hard drives
I would like some advice on my situation ;D
Thanks in advance.