Hi Everyone

I realise that Avid is only supporting the top two new 'Nehalem' MacPros but is there anyone on here who is successfully using v3.x MC with DX hardware running on the cheaper Nehalem single quad or the cheapest (2.26Ghz) dual quad?

Those top two MacPros are just crazy expensive!

Any help appreciated!

It is absolutely worth every penny to get the top of the line Mac Pro.  I just bit the bullet last week and my productivity has quadrupled.  It is worth absolutely every penny, and you might as well upgrade to the 2.93 because that's the only one that has hyper-threading—super super useful when you've got a lot of encoding that needs to be done.  I can export an entire ProRes QT of a 1:40min feature film in an hour and it takes 21mins to encode that QT into an MPEG2 using Compressor.  Seriously substantial difference between the others. 

Just my .02

Thanks.  Good to know. My profile specs aren't up-to-date.  At the moment we have two Harpertown 3.0Ghz dual quads, which are supported just fine on the DX hardware.  We need to add a third suite here in the next few days, so it'll have to be a second-hand Harpertown or one of the new models.  The price difference is absolutely huge, so I think we'll just run the DX on one of our existing systems and go second-hand.  Shame.  £2.5k for the previous Avid-supported Macs just turned into £4k.  Oh dear.

Post, Marianna was telling me that there is definitely a problem running the software on the Single Nahelems. So, I'd definitely stay away from those.

Okay. Thanks.

I just ordered the Dual 2.26. Will be running with Mojo and 3.5, will see how it works and let you know.

Thanks!  Mojo SDI or Mojo DX?

Hello wsimonett

Did you check Mojo with dual 2.26 Xeon?

Thanks for the answer.

I'm about to get a new machine, and this is exactly the question I have: does anyone work with a 2xQuad 2.26 Nehalem here? Is that fine? Or should we get the next one up in the Mac Pro lineup?

Edited for more info:

The machine will be used mainly for offline of feature film, cut in DNxHD36 or SD DVCAM. No fx, nothing really processor intensive.

I have two of them and it works.

wiezowiec:

I have two of them and it works.

It works or it rocks?

Hi!

I just built exact this System

Dual 2,26 Nehalem, 12GB (6x2GB!!!) 2x 500GB Raid0 as System + external 1TB WD as TimeMachine

2x1TB Raid0 with external WD 2TB Backup

Slot 1 G120 GeForce

Slot 2 Decklink HD Extreme Blackmagic

Slot 3 Highpoint SATA Raid Card with 4x 750 SATA HDDs in RAID 5

Slot 4 Avid Xpress MOJODX Card

OSX 10.5.7, MC 3.5.4 and works Rock Solid with MojoDX (Still from time to time Busthread Errors (2x/Week)

But I can Use the Decklink SDI to Analogue throughoutput to get an extra Analogue output from MojoDX !!!

regards

Sly