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24 Hours with my New Mac Pro

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Monty Pavement

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Feb 8, 2006
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Just thought I'd drop a note to say how much I'm loving my new Mac Pro.

I was upgrading from a dual 2.7 Powermac G5 with 4 Gb memory and an X800 video card.

My new Mac Pro is the standard 2.8 Octo, with 2Gb ram - CTO 8800 and 750Gb HD.

I'm going to add another couple of 750Gb drives (I do a lot of video editing) and another 8Gb of memory.

Converting a 720p HD 50 minute TV show using Visualhub used to take c. 270 minutes on my Powermac - on my Mac Pro it takes 31 minutes!!!

Converting an SD 50 minute TV show used to take about 90 minutes on my PM, but now takes less than 10 minutes!

Needless to say I'm in seventh heaven.

On top of this, it's so quiet, that even when it's grinding away doing a conversion, it's so quiet I'm not sure it's switched on, even when I'm sat next to it!

I debated whether to upgrade as my PM was doing a grand job, but boy am I glad I did upgrade.

Can't wait to see what it's like with another 8 Gb of RAM in it ...
 
Congrats on the new computer, it looks like you are planning on upgrading to more RAM in the future, I believe that the RAM from your PowerMac is compatible with the MacPro, have you considered taking the RAM from your old Power Mac and adding it to your MacPro?
 
Cheers for the note JML.

I'm leaving the RAM in the PM as I've agreed to sell it on at the present spec - and frankly as someone whose first computer was a ZX81 with a 16K (yup, K) RAM pack add on, the fact that I'll have a home computer with 10 Gb of memory freaks me out just a little bit!!
 
JML42691 said:
Congrats on the new computer, it looks like you are planning on upgrading to more RAM in the future, I believe that the RAM from your PowerMac is compatible with the MacPro, have you considered taking the RAM from your old Power Mac and adding it to your MacPro?
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OMG! It is absolutely NOT compatible... DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS!!!!!!! :eek:
 
iMpathetic said:
If it's one of the dual-core PMG5s....
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NO NO NO NO....

The PowerMac G5's, even the QUAD CORE... use a STANDARD PC-4200 DIMM.

It is NOT 800Mhz... and MOST IMPORTANTLY... it is NOT an FB-DIMM.

A COMPLETELY Different animal altogether, and will most DEFINITELY NOT WORK!!!!
 
Dude man, I feel you.
I just went from a dual core 2.0 g5 to a 8 core 2.8 and all i can say is $#%!:eek:
 
Monty Pavement said:
Just thought I'd drop a note to say how much I'm loving my new Mac Pro.

I was upgrading from a dual 2.7 Powermac G5 with 4 Gb memory and an X800 video card.

My new Mac Pro is the standard 2.8 Octo, with 2Gb ram - CTO 8800 and 750Gb HD.

I'm going to add another couple of 750Gb drives (I do a lot of video editing) and another 8Gb of memory.

Converting a 720p HD 50 minute TV show using Visualhub used to take c. 270 minutes on my Powermac - on my Mac Pro it takes 31 minutes!!!

Converting an SD 50 minute TV show used to take about 90 minutes on my PM, but now takes less than 10 minutes!

Needless to say I'm in seventh heaven.

On top of this, it's so quiet, that even when it's grinding away doing a conversion, it's so quiet I'm not sure it's switched on, even when I'm sat next to it!

I debated whether to upgrade as my PM was doing a grand job, but boy am I glad I did upgrade.

Can't wait to see what it's like with another 8 Gb of RAM in it ...
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wow I expect my mac pro in 1 week :)
 
Monty Pavement said:
Just thought I'd drop a note to say how much I'm loving my new Mac Pro.
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Same here... :)

OMG, I love, love, love my new 8-core 2.8Ghz Mac Pro. I'm one of those peeps who will wait years before upgrading to the latest... in my case, an old PowerMac G5 Dual 1.8GHz. Not pokey by any means, but ever since I got an Apple TV, encoding HDV home movies became somewhat of a pain. This new Mac Pro is so darn fast and quiet, I really love it!

Still waiting on my 4GB of extra RAM I purchased from Datamem.com, but I did chance to run some benchmarks against my old Mac before I sold it.

Here are the results:

HDV rendering in FCP:
PowerMac:4m 36s --> Mac Pro:38s

Running SmoothCam filter:
PowerMac:37m 12s --> Mac Pro:2m 20s OMG!!

Visualhub conversion (iPod touch preset):
PowerMac:52m --> Mac Pro:7m 56s


Yeah, you can say I'm pretty happy. If you're thinking of buying a Mac Pro, definitely get one right now. This one should last me another four years. :)
 
i just got my new mac pro today, and ive never been so impressed with a computer so far. I just switched from a dell and never going back again.
 
Monty Pavement said:
and frankly as someone whose first computer was a ZX81 with a 16K (yup, K) RAM pack add on,
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--Danger Danger--
What ever you do don't try to add the 16k from you ZX81 to the Mac Pro. I don't think it will work. The memory speed is different and I think there is a slight speed difference in the front side bus.

Long live the ZX81:) I also had one.
 
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