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MacPro Hardware for HD?

I know HES has not officially checked of on the MacPros, but it seems from reading the forums that many of you are using them.
I will be using Catalyst to serve our new DPI Lightning 40HD, and I want to get the best hardware that is available now. Hopefully the hardware will have some future as well.
So MacPro users, is there a difference between 2.0, 2.66 and 3 GHz processors in this application?
What video card are you using?
What Hard Drive configuration are you using?
How much RAM is enough? How much is just wasting money?
Thank you for your help.
Looking forward to joining the Catalyst community.
-Michael
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    500gig system drive from apple
    3x250gig 10000 rpm WD drives using the Apple RAID utility

    -Seek time is very important here. I cannot comment too much about using catalyst this way. I am sure other can and will. I use our spec SCSI set up.

    1 gig apple RAM
    6 gig aftermarket RAM ( too little? too much? )

    -I doubt you need this much. I guess it all depends on what you are doing with it.

    and likely the decklink multibridge extreame card

    - Looks nice. Haven't used it. I like the ability to switch from SD to HD

    my other question is which stock video card do I need?

    -They normally come with the 7300. I installed the X1900 upgrade card. I haven't seen a gigantic difference, but with the pro av system it looks like you are interested in building, I think you may see it.


    Is this an appropriate starting system ( too little too much)

    - This is more than a starting system. What do you plan on doing?
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  • 'S' -

    500gig system drive from apple
    3x250gig 10000 rpm WD drives using the Apple RAID utility

    -Seek time is very important here. I cannot comment too much about using catalyst this way. I am sure other can and will. I use our spec SCSI set up.

    1 gig apple RAM
    6 gig aftermarket RAM ( too little? too much? )

    -I doubt you need this much. I guess it all depends on what you are doing with it.

    and likely the decklink multibridge extreame card

    - Looks nice. Haven't used it. I like the ability to switch from SD to HD

    my other question is which stock video card do I need?

    -They normally come with the 7300. I installed the X1900 upgrade card. I haven't seen a gigantic difference, but with the pro av system it looks like you are interested in building, I think you may see it.


    Is this an appropriate starting system ( too little too much)

    - This is more than a starting system. What do you plan on doing?
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