i hope you are not an american company coz in america you are not allowed to use hackintosh. So if you have the time to wait for the new mac pro and the money, as a company i would maybe go with an original mac, but in terms of reliability, price and speed a hackintosh is recommended as well. so 32gig is very usefull and it costs no money at all so 16 gigs are fine, but when working on a smoke it might be nessesary, that you have to switch to i.e. smoke and flame dont need to much memory. not at max performance of course (about 10% less speed)īut it runs. The nice thing is it operates while creating or changing the raid. we have tried it with a buch of ssds and it did up to 4gb/sec in raid 5. Runs under red hat, centos, fedora perfectly as well. at first it runs not only under osx, it runs any flavour of windows and it after i have used several different over the past 15 years now, areca makes me really happy. i was thinking about buying the new quadro 4000 but there are too many complains about this card here in this forum that i still stick with my 4800.Ī very important part of the box is the raid controller. My grafic board is still a quadro fx4800 - that is maybe not the most fancy board available but it is very reliableĪnd it has a very good performance. it is faster then my 8 core 3,2Ghz mac pro, thats why i sold the mac. i have a year experience with a hackintosh now (tonymac)Īnd it runs an i7 that can run at 4.4Ghz rock solid. I agree with jason - more clock speed is more performance. I have also heard of people using 8GB DIMMs, but they can be a little finicky so make sure to buy from a seller with a return policy in case they don't work correctly. Or if you do, at least know you are making a performance trade-off to accommodate that additional memory. The slots closest to the CPU heatsink are 4 and 8. So, buy 4GB DIMMS and install them in slots 1,2,3 and 5,6,7. The Xeon CPUs used in 2009 and newer Mac Pros each have three memory controllers, and will work fastest with RAM installed in sets of three. That would make a GTX 680 4GB (10.8.2+), a Titan 6GB (10.8.4+), or possibly an older GTX 580 3GB good options.įor RAM, get 16GB if you're on an iMac or MacBook Pro. Get the fastest OpenGL card you can, and if you ever intend to work in 4K, you need at least 3GB of Vram. It does not use CUDA or OpenCL, other than possibly plug-ins like Genarts Sapphire which are CUDA-enabled, and can make calls to the GPU on their own. If you really want Smoke to work well, get a large (8-16 Drive) SAS RAID array with an ATTO R680 and use DPX intermediates for everything.Īll of Smoke's previews seem to be OpenGL-based. If you are using compressed file types (ProRes) you are slowing Smoke down. So, if you had a choice of a 3.06GHz 8-Core Mac Pro vs 2.4Ghz 12-Core, the faster 8-core is the better option. Smoke benefits more from higher clock speeds than it does from the number of CPU cores. If you have anyone in your area that has a smoke machine, or a beffy demo unit I would say that is worth a look. That demo of smoke is what got me hooked. And it was doing everything is just about real time. The box when I saw my first demo smoke was a beast. I do know that your renders times, and what you have to render increases and decreases depending on the power of the computer. The exact graphics card is in debate, since I don't own a tower, I can't help you there. I know the main things are for performance you are looking for is,įast Storage drives (this is what AD recomends, ) (which means your finishing room could also double as a resolve room too) And the real kicker, is smoke 2013 is still not quite stable enough for prime time (in my opinion, but it seems like the people in the know say wait for the next service pack) Autodesk and Blackmagic just announced a partnership, so we can hopefully see blackmagic support soon. We may or may not see a new mac pro soon.
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