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What will the shift to Nvidia mean?
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Toby
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What will the shift to Nvidia mean?
Cheers
Toby
Well, this could be a good thing in the long run. If the software can use the Nvidia cards for the same effects, we could hopefully get the quadro 4000 card with SDI out eventually for the mac..
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_20375.html
It seems as though this card can handle doing all the effects, while outputting HD/SDI so we would finally have an integrated SDI output solution. That would be a dream come true for me.
Jason
Short term though the PCI express leaves me with redundant SATA and Blackmagic cards. Makes upgrading a far more expensive exercise than I would like.
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Toby
true, but by the time you need to upgrade your machine to a new one, you would probably want to get a hi-def SDI card anyways ( assuming you dont have one now) and SATA cards are really not that expensive.
Besides, who knows when you will really need to upgrade to new machines? It is still not known what kind of performance increases these will give you. The increase might not be very noticeable in using catalyst for a normal show. I'm sure once you start looking at high def, this will be a big increase, and by the time you need to go high-def, you will probably need a whole new machine anyways, then you can keep your current setup for doing standard def.
Jason
hopefully nVidia/ATI wont mean anything.
but i dont have any computer to test with.
i rewrote to be card agnostic some time ago - though this isnt in v3.3
the new macs support multiple video cards - which may open the way to more than 2 outputs. dont know yet.
and the shift to pci-express- may open the way to a usable xserve in the future.
at the moment they dont have any agp graphics card support.
and redudant scsi.Quote:
Originally Posted by tharding
pci-express is totally different from pci-x or pci.
not any kindof compatibility.
it would have been less confusing to have given it a new name.
we are told atto with have a pci-express ul5d in november.
the apple hardware technote is at
http://images.apple.com/powermac/pdf...erMacG5_TO.pdf
i believe we have information from blackmagic that versions of all their cards will be available with pci-express shortly.
And miglia is a possibility too. though not confirmed
Atto will release a new PCIe SCSI card in early November - the UL5D. This is a dual channel card. Decklink have already released the Extreme as a PCIe card, with the others to follow.
Aurora and Miglia have got back to me but haven't given specific release dates on products.
Hugh
Atto will also release the first PCIe Fibre Channel card.
The big thing, guys, is multiple graphics cards. The PCIe architecture will support multiple nVidia cards - two FX4500's or 7800's and four 6600's.
SDI is a double-edged sword. It would be cool to have the option of outputing to SDI/ HD SDI without having to go through a scan converter.
Richard and I will report our findings when we get our new Macs.
Hugh