Quote Originally Posted by GideonKiers
a new dualcore g5 2.0 with a SCSI disk or 10000+ SATA disk will be able to do 6 layers of DV smoothly with cat 3.4 and osx.4 ?

i assume the 7800 grphx card doesnt help really in straightforward mixing, it's mostly for fx calculations on the gpu right ? what would be needed for 8 layers smooth DV mixing ?
i dont have a dual 2.0ghz pci express machine - i only have a quad g5 -

to get 6 layers you need a minimum of scsi with cheetah 10k7
to get more you need something like the fujitsu MAU 3147 or a seagate 15k4 drive.
I was able to get 8 dv layers on a quad g5 with a single fujitsu MAU 3147 - earlier in the year.

the 10000rpm raptor only does 4 layers.
but has the same performance as the atlas 10k5 drives that highend has been shipping.

to use scsi - of course - you need a scsi card - its the UL5D or UL5S for pci-express machines.
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really really suggest you get the 7800 graphics card.