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ProTools 10HD and Mac Pro advice/help
At the moment I’m running ProTools10HD with a magma chassis on a Mac Pro 3.1 it’s a 2 x quad core at 2.8. Now I’m thinking of changing the studio Mac to a 5.1 and I’ve got 2 in mind the first one is
6 core 3.46 processor speed And the second one is 12 core 3.02 processor speed Now I know ProTools10HD is old but I’m stuck in my ways and don’t want to change from this. The advice I’m after is what one will give me the better performance?? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Raoul Crane
www.blaze-studios.co.uk PT 10.3.10 HD Accel 6, Mac Pro 5.1 12 Core 3.46hz Dual Boot Lion 10.7.5 and Maverick 10.9.5 32GB Ram Magma PE6R4i Chassis |
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Re: ProTools 10HD and Mac Pro advice/help
Obviously the 12-core, but to be able to use all those cores your software need to handle it. If you use something that requires single-core performance, then 6-core will be faster, but I would guess not so much than it looks like from just looking at gigahertz.
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Re: ProTools 10HD and Mac Pro advice/help
So the 6 core is £550 and the 12 core is £600 which one would you choose to buy??
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Raoul Crane
www.blaze-studios.co.uk PT 10.3.10 HD Accel 6, Mac Pro 5.1 12 Core 3.46hz Dual Boot Lion 10.7.5 and Maverick 10.9.5 32GB Ram Magma PE6R4i Chassis |
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Re: ProTools 10HD and Mac Pro advice/help
Without any more information, I'd take the 12-core
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Re: ProTools 10HD and Mac Pro advice/help
This is the spec of the 12 Core
And this is the spec of the 6 core Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Raoul Crane
www.blaze-studios.co.uk PT 10.3.10 HD Accel 6, Mac Pro 5.1 12 Core 3.46hz Dual Boot Lion 10.7.5 and Maverick 10.9.5 32GB Ram Magma PE6R4i Chassis |
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Re: ProTools 10HD and Mac Pro advice/help
12-core has way better GPU, worth more than 50 price difference
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Re: ProTools 10HD and Mac Pro advice/help
Quote:
And therein lies the rub - get VEPro and you should really have a great system on a budget. |
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Re: ProTools 10HD and Mac Pro advice/help
To be honest I don’t use that many VI. Slate, Ezdrummer and Xpand are used the most.
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Raoul Crane
www.blaze-studios.co.uk PT 10.3.10 HD Accel 6, Mac Pro 5.1 12 Core 3.46hz Dual Boot Lion 10.7.5 and Maverick 10.9.5 32GB Ram Magma PE6R4i Chassis |
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Re: ProTools 10HD and Mac Pro advice/help
Whatever, it is a ni-brainer already. For 50 more you get way better GPU and more memory
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Re: ProTools 10HD and Mac Pro advice/help
But with PT10 unless he's running VEPro the extra ram doesn't mean anything. And really there's not THAT much extra usable ram in a 12 core to begin with unless you move to a more modern OSX.
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