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

developer - Former HES Forum Member over 18 years ago

[QUOTE=RedLightning]

3x250gig 10000 rpm WD drives using the Apple RAID utility
1 gig apple RAM

if you want to do this - you have to test it yourself - and see if it has the performance you need for your application.
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developer - Former HES Forum Member over 18 years ago

[QUOTE=Leah_Durrett]-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.

there is a difference if you start doing a lot of mixes- plan on using a triple or dual head to go box -, or a lot of fx, the x1900 is a lot better.
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developer - Former HES Forum Member over 18 years ago

[QUOTE=Leah_Durrett]6 gig aftermarket RAM ( too little? too much? )

ram makes no difference to performance - are far as i ever tested.
as long as you have at least 1Gb for tiger operating system.

maybe you want to create a large RAM disc???

r
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redlightning - Former HES Forum Member over 18 years ago

Richard,
Thanks again for your input, I have learned a lot since diving into this project.

Currently I am running with 3gig RAM and it seems more than fine.
FB-DDR2 dimms are crazy expensive...

-s
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developer - Former HES Forum Member over 18 years ago

[QUOTE=RedLightning]Richard,
Thanks again for your input, I have learned a lot since diving into this project.

Currently I am running with 3gig RAM and it seems more than fine.
FB-DDR2 dimms are crazy expensive...

-s

i havent ever seen any reports of lots of ram making any difference to any performance.
i have 1GB in my mac pro.

when i started writing mac software - my hard drive was only 40MB...
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silveroctopus - Former HES Forum Member over 17 years ago

[quote=RedLightning]Richard,
Thanks again for your input, I have learned a lot since diving into this project.

Currently I am running with 3gig RAM and it seems more than fine.
FB-DDR2 dimms are crazy expensive...

-s

I am planning on switching from Wintel to MacPro shortly. My application needs (not joking) 4GB, and I can use more when Leopard is released. Apple FB RAM is ludicrously expensive so I was thinking of getting Samsung FB and Seagate SATAII HDD to keep the cost down so I can afford the 30" screen.

Are you actually mixing Apple and non-Apple RAM as you planned to? Any problems with doing this? Does the machine run louder as a result?

Any reason non-Apple HDDs should be a problem?

Thanks in advance for any advice

Neil
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redlightning - Former HES Forum Member over 17 years ago

No problems as of yet mixing aftermarket RAM, HDD's...
Though real world testing has been somewhat limited...

-s
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