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HP XW8400
Hi all
I am about to jump ship from Mac to PC . I have been a PT mac user for years, but feel that pc's have now "come of age " for PT Given that I have the old PCI HD3 cards , and "upgrading" to PCIE seems stupid to me , plus the cost of a new mac. I do NOT want to build my own Pc , but want the fastest/futureproofed as much as poss off the shelf protools approved model. I am looking at the HP XW8400 , and would be grateful for any help here. 1) Does anyone USE this machine with Pt... how is it? 2) Plse confirm it will take HD3 (old pci) I notice that two of the pci-x slots are full length 100mhz, and 1 full length 133mhz?..how does that work with the three HD cards? 3) Is it worth it to get a SECOND zeon processor..what exactly will that give me for the extra money.does PT use the second processor ,if so , how? 4) Does anyone have a dealer suggestion in the UK who can beat www.it247.com 5) What video card do I get that will be PT approved AND have dual outputs? herse the spec and price Im currently looking at HP Workstation xw8400 MT 1 x Dual-Core Xeon 5160 / 3 GHz RAM 2 GB HD 1 x 250 GB DVD±RW (+R double layer) Gigabit Ethernet Win XP Pro Monitor : none £2103.03 (Inc vat) Thats it for now , all help appreciated Bill P London |
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Re: HP XW8400
If you *did* upgrade to a Mac Pro, I think the way to go would be to get a PCI-X expansion chassis with a PCIe host card. I saw a Magma for around $2500 (don't remember where). Depending on the number of HD cards it may be cheaper than the exchange program, and you'd get some extra slots too.
Sorry I can't help with the HP, I have a home built PC. |
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Re: HP XW8400
Mdog
yea I thought about the chassis route as well.. but I think weighing all the costs and hassle up , im going Pc route (I already have four of em The only curious thing is xp's inability to adress over 4 gigs of ram..very annoying for Protools users.We can only hope that Protools will support 64bit os soon !- though Im not holding my breath cheers anyway Bill P |
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Re: HP XW8400
Mdog
yea I thought about the chassis route as well.. but I think weighing all the costs and hassle up , im going Pc route (I already have four of em The only curious thing is xp's inability to adress over 4 gigs of ram..very annoying for Protools users.We can only hope that Protools will support 64bit os soon !- though Im not holding my breath cheers anyway Bill P |
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Re: HP XW8400
I am running an HP XW8200. But I use an expansion chassis with it. The reason is the order of the slots. They only have 2 full PCI slots next to each other. I do not know about the 8400. I am running 3 gigs of ram and it works well. With 4 accel cards I find I do not need much in the way of CPU for plug ins etc...
We switched from MAC also. PT runs virtually the same on both. Good luck. Mike |
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Re: HP XW8400
Hi here is my setup
HP XW8400-bios 2.38-windows 7 64bits-sas & sata drive-8GB of ram Pro Tools HD 8.1.1 1 core card pci-x 2 accel pci-x I get this DAE error -1115 was encountered message as soon as I put core in pci slot 5 133mhz accel in pci slot 6 100mhz accel in pci slot 7 100mhz it's all good just the one core and accel if i skip slot 5, then i get the error my question does anyone got PT HD3 running on the xw8400, of course without expansion chassis anyone please! |
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Re: HP XW8400
resolved my problem this morning, removing everything and starting from scratch, then I found out that the problem was simply a driver conflicting, was the midi interface motu driver, removed it and BANG! all good, YES I'm now HD3 on a old and great PC, all that for real cheap, love used stuff and it's much better for the environment and my mind
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