Hi
Not enough DSP, so I am looking for a used PCIe Expansion Chassis so I can get more HD PCIe Accel cards. I have a 12 Core MacPro (2010). It looks like the Magma Expressbox 7 is the way to go. I see there are 2 different generations of the EB7, Gen I and Gen II.
All I am seeing for sale in the used market is the Gen I, is there any real need or upside to the Gen II version?
The Gen II is double the throughput, but does an HD5 PCIe card system need that, or when would it be needed?
Also, I can't find any compatibility information on Expansions Chassis and ProTools 10 in Avid support. . . does anyone know the link to that info?
Avid article on the EB7:
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/e...-II&popup=true
I would have gone HDX a long time ago, but Avid did not bother to support the blue faced 192s and WAVES has not done AAX DSP either, so it seems me, and everyone else I know that already had HD3, is sticking to ProTools 10 with the old cards. I bet if all the math was revealed, AVID is actually loosing business revenue by their planned obsolescence strategy, but that is another topic all together.
Please advise is anyone knows more about which Magma EB7 I can/should use, and any other associated caveats related to moving the cards out of the MacPro and into an expansion chassis.
Thanks!