have a question about my mac pro

[rangerfreak1]

i have an i man 24.inch 3.06ghz and i decided to give it to my wife so i went out and bought a new mac pro 2.26ghz 8 core.i seems to me that the final cut express rendering is about the same and the performance seems close but the programs never max out my cpu usage so i feel that fce and some other programs are not taking full use of this awsome computer. whats going on?

 

[belvdr]

CPU is not the only factor in speed. It could very well be hard disk I/O. So if the hard disk I/O is maxed out, you may never see a CPU being taxed.

 

[rangerfreak1]

i thought since this is a mac pro that it would be alot faster than this.

 

[Tallest Skil]

i thought since this is a mac pro that it would be alot faster than this.

You're limited by the speed at which your hard drive spins, and there is no circumvention (buy an SSD or 15k disk). The only bottleneck below that is the speed at which your optical drive reads media.

 

[rangerfreak1]

cool thanks guys.