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Hello there,
what kind of hardware would you buy for catalyst at the moment?
I am thinking about a Mac Pro 2,93 8-Core with 6x 2 GB of RAM.
What would be the best graphics card to put in there? Maybe the ATI Radeon HD 4870? And what would be the best harddrive if I don't want to go for an SSD? And are there any SSDs you can reccomend?
so many questions..thanks for all your help..
cheers
michael
Hi Michael
Personally, I wouldn't go for another drive system other than SSD at the moment to be honest. The prices have tumbled and now 250gb SSD's are under the £500 mark. Performance of a single SSD outshines SCSI or standard SATA's or Raptors.
I will PM you with some more info.
regards
Nev.
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Originally Posted by Michael_
you totally waste your money on your machine with all that memory and graphics card if you dont use SSD
as every other disc system limits the performance - below that of the machine by a large margin.
The best basic config would be to go to apple's site and order the default 8-core with the 4870 graphics. Get a 250Gb OCZ SSD. If you capture use a Phoenix for SDI/HD-SDI or an LFG4 for Composite.
You could honestly get away with the 4-core machine if you wanted however the 8-core is easy enough. You don't need anything more on memory or anything else.