PT HDX Cheese Grater roll call

[Will Russell]

Hi,

My 2009 -flashed to 2010- 12 core cheese grater MacPro running PT HDX on Mojave is still working just fine.

Who else is still using one of these for their main production rig?

Are you considering upgrading soon and if so, what are you thinking of replacing this with?

I mostly do live in studio recording, editing and mixing. I do very little with midi and virtual instruments.

I bet a bunch of you are in a similar situation and wondering what the next step is.

[syMPh]

Hey Will,
I'm on a 3.46 dual cheese maker.

i'm sitting here on Catalina with the dosdude patch and it is working well for now. Thinking i'll probably try out a mac mini / hdx chassis when avid qualifies Big Sur. Once that is running well i'll put the old cheese into a supporting actor role for storage etc. i really want a new mac pro but i think the best thing is to wait 6 months to a year or so after the apple silicon one has shipped and proven itself both in hardware and O/S

[DetroitT]

Mojave 12 core metal 580 running well.
Showing system is power maxed however.

Also running a 12 core new mac pro macOS 10.15.6
Both on par when working in Pro Tools HDX 20.11

Mostly I feel difference in maintenances and port expansion cable lengths.

[Fidelis]

Still running an old 4.1 upgraded to Intel Mac Pro 12 core 3.33 GHz, 48GB RAM, OSX 10.13.6, PT HDX, PT 2020.9.1

I decided to keep it for now, until Apple puts better Silicon Macs out there.. then I'll think about moving forward. But its running great!

[K Roche]

Yes see system below But yes I am upgrading
I just ordered a brand new iMac and a new Carbon interface, and will be trading/selling my Mac ,HDN card , 27" Mac Cinema Display , and my two Avid Omni's

The iMac is as specked below and I will be installing 128GB 3rd party RAM

[Rajsmoove]

Running HDX on a flashed 4,1 to 5,1 6 core 3.46 . Mojave for now but will prolly do the Catalina patch. Plotting on an M1 Mini in the future. Already copped a sonnet tb3 egpu for the card. got it for peanuts on eBay compared to the official avid enclosure. I refuse to give em $500 for that lol.

Im gonna wait for the hdx hybrid add on to drop before I decide to move over. If it nets me enough power ill sit tight for awhile.

[Will Russell]

I wish I could justify the cost of the brand new Mac Pro but that sort of investment doesn't make any sense given my current business model.

The way my studio is set up the computer is in a separate equipment room in the back of my control room so purchasing a newer iMac doesn't really work.

I do have a second cheese grater chassis in case my power supply goes or some other replaceable component like RAM. I am very intrigued by Apple's new M1 chip and I'm looking forward to seeing how that new architecture develops over the next year or so. If they put a better chip than the current M1 in a Mac Mini that might do the trick.

So despite the fact that I still don't have thunderbolt and I would like to move up an operating system or two I think the smart thing to do for me is to sit tight.

[pinosmuse]

Great to stumble onto this tread.
Still running 10.13 on an upgraded 4,1(to 5,1) cheese grater, with HDX PT2020.11. Running still fine.
I'm looking to update to Mojave, but then I'll need a new graphics card.
What graphic card do you guys recommend? Most cards I find need two power connectors and I have only 1 available since HDX takes the other one.
Or do you have a workaround for that?

[Will Russell]

I have the MSI Gaming Radeon RX 560 128-bit 4GB GDDR5.

Works fine but you lose the boot screen.

[Farhoof]

All Mac Pro 5.1 cheesegraters here. All HDX2 with an USB3 card taking the third slot. Working on external SSD's. We are going to stick with these untill HDX is obsolete for us. Next step is upgrading the graphic cards for cheap non mac RX560x570/580 cards and that will be the last upgrade for these old trusty machines.