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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Final Word 8800 Or 3870

It helps ATF it helps. I now think I should go for OWC instead of Kingston. I used to buy those for the Mac Book Pros, but no experience with the Mac Pros, so my guess is to take your advice. Very helpful indeed.
 
I have another thing I dont get, whats the deal with the ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512 MB graphics card???? Why is that different from the 3870???
Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
 
Just bought a 3870. ATI could sure use the business. Specs suggest it's quite superior to the 8800GT. Price is competitive at $220.
 
The ATI X1900XT card is a generation behind the 3870 and also lower down on the totem-pole. It was an OK workhorse card at the time and in some cases is still faster than the 2600HD card for various 3D operations.
 
My initial tests show little in the way of sped up render times in Redcine. Exporting a 240 frame clip from 4K 16:9, 23.98 to 1080P ProRes (Sinc filtering) using Full Debayer and keeping the tweaking of settings to a minimum I got a render time of 2 minutes, 55 seconds. I'm guessing that by adding a fast RAID to my system I will see some better render times. That's about all I can do now to try and speed this up. I have plenty of RAM (16GB), decent amount of CPU (newest 2.8ghz Mac Pro), and a good video card (ATI 3870). It has to be the bottleneck with the FW800 hard drives.
 
Not too much of a bottleneck there when exporting from R3D to ProRes, since both are compressed formats. A RAID should help with DPX sequences, though.
 
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