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Mac Pro 12 Core

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I want to upgrade from my G5 Dual processor to a Mac Pro 12 Core. I need to know if my MOTU 2408 424 card will work with the new Mac. I use Logic Studio with the 2408 mkII and a 24i interface. Has anyone tried to use this type of setup yet?
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You'll need the PCIe 424 card. I'm fairly certain that G5's don't have PCIe. You can upgrade your card through MOTU.
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Some late-model G5's (like my late 2005 Quad 2.5) had PCIe. Check your Mac or 424, Worddust. If it your 424 is PCI or PCIX, you'll need to upgrade the 424 card. I believe MOTU has a program whereby a discount is available.

While you're at it, you might give DP a try. Whatever DAW you use, it is gonna' rock on the 12 core. You might also consider the 3.33 6 core Mac... my fave.
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HCMarkus wrote:You might also consider the 3.33 6 core Mac... my fave.
Dude- did you get an Intel Mac, or are you just "coveting"?
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Frodo wrote:
HCMarkus wrote:You might also consider the 3.33 6 core Mac... my fave.
Dude- did you get an Intel Mac, or are you just "coveting"?
Alas. Need I say more? :boohoo:
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I should note that, over the last few months, my son has striven to "Ease his pain" (mine) by telling me a new generation of Intel processors is expected. I think he's right:

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/03/int ... rocessors/

From TechReport.com:
At the heart of Sandy Bridge is an essentially new processor microarchitecture, the most sweeping architectural transition from Intel since the introduction of the star-crossed Pentium 4. Nearly everything has changed, from the branch predictors through the out-of-order execution engine and into the memory subsystem. The goal: to achieve higher performance and power efficiency, even on single-threaded tasks, where the integration of multiple CPU cores hasn't been much help. Additionally, each of those cores holds a revamped floating-point unit that supports a new instruction set called AVX. These instructions allow the processing of vectors up to 256 bits in width, and the hardware supports them quite fully. The result should be much higher sustained rates of throughput for floating-point math, giving new life to media processing applications and other sorts of data-parallel computation.
Interesting. Verrry Interesting.
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