Thermonuclear Reactor
Neil Smith of LumaForge demonstrates the New Mac Pro, with speedtest across a shared environment(Two nMacPros and rMBP). With very interesting developments with IP over Thunderbolt in...
View ArticleInstalling OSX Mavericks on a Mac Pro with completely blank fresh out of the...
Is that possible? Using a USB stick? I have four brand new WD drives for my mac pro and a bootable USB with Mavericks, will I be able to use the option key to boot from the USB even though the hard...
View ArticleSSD or Raid for Scratch disks?
Hi, I'm still waiting for my nMP to arrive but am currently facing a problem that will come up again alter when the machine arrives: After Effects Media Cache. I currently have it on my Pegasus R6. It...
View ArticlenMP Disk Reformat Issue (reinstalling Mavericks)
Brief: Company I'm working for on contract collected their first MacPro for RND testing recently. Last night it was updated, and we wanted to generate an image for recovery - in the process the lab...
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New Mac Pro 6.1 USB 3.0 disk speed
I'm seeing tragically slow speeds for disks mounted with USB 3 on my nMP. The same disks, directly connected to a Mac Mini or a Mac Pro (Late 2013) give wildly different results. The Mac Mini 6.2 gets...
View Articleis the new mac pro worth the extra $$$
Just a question. I work with 40 to 50 weddings per year plus about 100 fam shoots. From the weddings we process about 200 to 300 gig of raw files per wedding and about 40 to 50 gig per fam shoot. My...
View ArticleWill a Reference GTX 770 Work in a 2009 MP?
Hello, I have been researching whether or not the Nvidia GTX 770 will work in a 2009 Mac Pro. After some research, I have found that drivers are not the issue, however the power consumption is. I have...
View ArticleAnyone using multiple displays with nMP?
Got a 6 core nMP on order and have 4x30" displays that I would like to hook up with it when it arrives. Just wondering if adding all 4 if these will increase the heat coming out the top considerably or...
View ArticleAnyone using multiple displays with nMP?
Got a 6 core nMP on order and have 4x30" displays that I would like to hook up with it when it arrives. Just wondering if adding all 4 if these will increase the heat coming out the top considerably or...
View ArticlePlease help VFX-Artist choose a new GPU.
Hi there, so I have a 2010 Mac Pro, 12-core 2.93Ghz with 32GB of ram and an ATI Radeon HD 5870 Graphics Card running Mavericks. IÂ’m looking for recommendations for a better graphics card, without...
View ArticleHow many cores remain idle in most applications?
I am not a Pro and try to learn in this forum which nMP would be best for me. I can only afford either the 4 or at the most the 6 core and intend to keep it as long as possible. I had previously a Mid...
View ArticleMac Pro 3,1
Hello guys currently i have an imac 21.5 late 2011 base model and i saw that Mac Pros 3,1 are selling really cheap,so are they still worth buying? how is with the upgradability(ram,gpu,ssd)? Would it...
View ArticleORICO PFU3-2P Not Mouting Harddrives!
Hello everyone! I bought a ORICO PFU3-2P PCIe card to get USB 3.0 to my Mac Pro! It is in Slot 4. It is recognized by "System Information". When I first connected a self-powered external hard drive to...
View ArticlenMP & memory performance observations with various mem configs
hey, folks: just took delivery of a 6c nMP and wanted to post a few observations. i ran geekbench3 with a number of memory configs and figured i would post the results. the 16GB chips are crucial...
View ArticleAnyone using Asus 4K Display?
Anyone here using the Asus 4K display? Can you provide your thoughts? (and ideally a full 5000 word review!) ;) The price on this is coming down nicely... now $2700 on Amazon.
View ArticleEarly 2008 MacPro GPU compatibility
I've got an early 2008 Mac Pro(3,1) running 10.9 and the video card is buggin out and it seems to be time for a replacement. Can anyone tell me if Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 6850 will be compatible? I...
View Articlebad idea? (nMP backup storage related)
got a question related to backing up my nMP. i'm re-thinking my back-up strategy with this change. primary data drives for active/recent projects are 2x1TB 840 EVOs in RAID0. i connect them via my...
View ArticleNew Mac Pro External Devices
Hi, I ordered my nMP and I'm awaiting "shipping in February." So I was wondering what "Externals" are recommended such as DVD/Blu Ray Burners, USB 3/Firewire hubs, etc.? Thanks for the help and advice.
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DIY Optical Cage HD Mount
Hey all, I'm sure some one has thought of/done this before, but for some weird reason I decided to half-heartedly document this project. I've been wanting to add another hard drive in the lower optical...
View ArticleWhich 4K Displays does support 60hz on nMP (tested) ??
I have a nMP on order, I want to know which 4K displays does support 4K@60hz refresh rate. From I've read only is possible thru DisplayPort (TB2) (HDMI is limited to 30hz) using both channels, few...
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