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Subject: Re: [OM] More Memory (OT)
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 17:30:51 -0400
>From what I could find out, the 5870 is designed for Mac Pros from 2009 and 
>later. Mine is the early one. You say yours is the same model as mine and 
>handles the later card okay?


--Bob Whitmire



On Sep 26, 2010, at 4:01 PM, SwissPace wrote:

>  Dump the X1900 which sorry to say was always a bad card and buy a new 
> 5870 or 5780 (check www.barefeats.com **). I have the 2.66 version of 
> yours and noticed a big gain going from 2 to 4gigs but not so much going 
> to 12, but I also recommend adding more memory as its cheap. also buy a 
> new larger disk again check out barefeats.com for best disk, but newer 
> disks are also faster and install osx on it and do a migration - easy to 
> do and then you can keep the original as a backup.
> 
> so I would recommend
> check cs4 settings use the memory (can't remember where I found that 
> maybe luminous landscapes,
> then
> graphic card
> then
> more memory
> then
> faster disk
> 
> BTW an SSD drive makes a phenominal difference on my macbook pro but 
> until they get cheap enough don't recommend it ( I have a smallish  one 
> as system disk and data on a normal disk but that's a bit more 
> complicated to set up).
> 
>>> Okay, so I'm running an early Mac Pro with 2, 3gig Intel dual-core Xenon 
>>> processors, 4 gigs of ram, 500mb hard drive on Snow Leopard. The video card 
>>> is a relatively new ATY,RadeonX1900. But the 'puter seems to be feeling a 
>>> bit infirm, at least when futzing around with layered CS4 files. I'm 
>>> wondering if another 8 gigs of ram would significantly speed things up. 
>>> Frankly, I'm not in the mood right now to buy another computer. When I got 
>>> this one I couldn't imagine how I'd ever need any more than a dual-core 3 
>>> gig machine. Phew! Also thinking of a RAID array to maybe make it faster, 
>>> but if more ram won't help, I may have to go ahead and bite the bullet for 
>>> more firepower.
>>> 
> 
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