You're already a step or three ahead of me. You'll have to experiment with your computer's threshold of pain- but I really think you have a lot of room to grow yet and a great deal of horsepower right now without spending a single red penny. Data busses do not increase, neither do drive seek and transfer times- or CPU speeds- even as you pack in more RAM. There *is* a point of diminishing returns, however. That you *could* use 4GB sticks for a total of 32GB on your slave may or may not be necessary, but knowing that it's possible may be an encouraging thought. With 16GB, you could theoretically run up to 15GB of samples comfortably (with the other 1GB in reserve for OSX).
#Mac pro 2007 16 core mac
While we have no need to sweat over anything needing 16EB of RAM these days, your 2007 Mac *could* be outfitted with more than the 9GB you have without breaking the bank. It took us a while to "outgrow" the 4GB limit since before the days when Macs only held 128k!! But that 64-bit functionality is not the same as using the 64-bit kernel for 64-bit memory addressing, which was designed to break through the memory limit of less-than 4GB to about 16+ exabytes on MacPros which can boot the 64-bit kernel. Macs have had all kinds of 64-bit functionality for a long time, even on the G-series machines.
#Mac pro 2007 16 core 64 Bit
I read somewhere (I think) that the older Mac Pros weren't totally 64 bit or something like that.? Did I hear wrong? I hope I did. Will that function in that mode as I need to on my 2007 Dual Core. I wish they weren't so expensive, or I would have them for everything.Īlso, I use a lot of VE Pro in 64 bit mode. I have an SSD drive in the master machine along with the regular drives, and I'm thinking about getting one for the slave when I can get the budget. Mine is 2 7200 RPM drives in a striped RAID. As far as the performance of the slave, with most sample library setups nowadays it's the hard drive that determines VI performance more than anything. Metal, because the channels operate cooler and more efficiently. To make the slave machine function optimally, I would say the most important thing is to use excellent quality CAT6 cables, and if you're not hooking up the machines directly, a high quality metal gigabit switch or router.
I was getting more frequent VE Pro crashes with my old master machine, but with the new one, they are rare, and the slave machine hasn't changed. With VE Pro especially, because the VEP plug-ins that connect DP to the server/slave use a lot more processing than you would think. I agree with Frodo, use the faster machine as the master.
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