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Anybody successfully running a HDX2 on a Mac Pro 8-core Early 2008 Harpertown?
I'm battling between upgrading my HD3 to a HD6 or upgrading to a HDX2.
Since I have a Mac Pro 8-core Early 2008 Harpertown, and looking at the possibility of upgrading to a HDX2, I didn't want to upgrade at this point to a new Mac Pro since it seems that next year new ones will be released, and it's expected to have big changes. So, I'm searching for some comfort of anybody that is using a HDX2 on a Harpertown If someone is using a HDX2 on a Harpertown or even earlier model please let me know how successfully you are using it. Thanks
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Re: Anybody successfully running a HDX2 on a Mac Pro 8-core Early 2008 Harpertown?
You are going to spend an extra $6000 for the second card for a system that it not supported ????
HDX1 is about the same as HD6, more if you consider that you'll be using more native plugins waiting for more TDM to be ported to AAX, that where you'll need a faster machine.
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You can't use HDX on a non supported Mac Pro.
Firmware / buss architecture issues. And It is possible (likely ?) that a 2013 pro machine will NOT have PCI slots. Just FYI. |
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Re: Anybody successfully running a HDX2 on a Mac Pro 8-core Early 2008 Harpertown?
There are plenty of people use HDX cards in unsupported macs. Even Avid employees, unofficially of course.
Remember, unsupported just means untested. There was supposedly an issue doing firmware upgrades with certain Macs but I think I've seen where people were not having any issues. Tim Cook (Apple CEO) did say publicly that there will be an updated MacPro in 2013. Sure, it might not have PCI slots but I think it will or you could always use a chassis. |
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Re: Anybody successfully running a HDX2 on a Mac Pro 8-core Early 2008 Harpertown?
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Although I'm convinced that 1 HDX card is enough for me in terms of DSP power. Quote:
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I remember when I had to buy a special SCSI 7200RPM drive to use on Session 8 that only had 8 tracks because of Digidesign compatibility guarantee But since I already saw some posts of people that had some minor problems with unsupported Mac Pros, I was just trying to get a good sense of what I could expect from using HDX cards on an unsupported machine. BTW, Is there any chassis compatible with HDX at the moment?
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Tim cook only said "something nice for the pros"
He did NOT mention 2013 Mac Pros. BIG DIFFERENCE !!!!! |
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Wow how about a bone here COOK
at least 1 pcie card slot
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Re: Anybody successfully running a HDX2 on a Mac Pro 8-core Early 2008 Harpertown?
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A little article for you to read, do read the updated part at the end. http://macpro.macrumors.com/ Quote:
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