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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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  • I thought I read about not being able to use SCSI drives in the MacPro
    and with a 10000 RPM drive that is near SCSI speed anyway as well they are a lot cheaper and are very easily dealt with in the machine.

    Happy to scale the RAM back, maybe I will go for 3 gig now until the 2gig sticks come down a bit more in price.

    The decklink multibridge seems to be the card that everyone is using from my research, i like the rack mounted box versus the long whip

    My logic is to but this as a event/concert rental system, and not be spending a ton of money upgrading.

    -Scott
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  • I thought I read about not being able to use SCSI drives in the MacPro
    and with a 10000 RPM drive that is near SCSI speed anyway as well they are a lot cheaper and are very easily dealt with in the machine.

    Happy to scale the RAM back, maybe I will go for 3 gig now until the 2gig sticks come down a bit more in price.

    The decklink multibridge seems to be the card that everyone is using from my research, i like the rack mounted box versus the long whip

    My logic is to but this as a event/concert rental system, and not be spending a ton of money upgrading.

    -Scott
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