8 Core Bliss!!!!!

[Bmoreshaun]

Hey everyone-
No real good reason for this post, other than to revel in my new toy I just ordered...8 core mac pro, 16gb ramm, 3tb 4 hard drive array, decked out with the best video card available!!!!!!....(on macs site anyway)...I'm guessing this will make short time on rendering and maybe even shave a bit off my redcode conversions...God, I'm even considering dragging it out on the set to process the redcode right there as we shoot...It's either that or my duel mac book pro!...(although a great machine, I'm a little weiry about processing times while shooting a feature, with everyone standing around getting paid, and me just waiting for eveything to process so we can keep shooting)...Any input on the use of the mac book pro for conversion of redcode(time/efficency) would be great...I've read a couple of posts, and I know alot of people are planning on using it for just that, but I can't seem to get past my other labtop experiences of long render times...Holla back...

[hmurchison]

Congrats!

Who would have thought that 3 years ago we were waiting for ANY 3Ghz PPC processor and now you have 8 3Ghz processors. I guess in 5 years we'll all be running 32 processor cores in our systems linked together with 10GB ethernet.

Now is a great time to be using computers and media.

[_BK]

According to Intel, they will be well above 32 cores in 5 years...

"By the end of the decade we will deliver a 300 percent increase in performance per watt over today's processors."

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[Bmoreshaun]

Damnnnnnn....Makes me want to hold out!!!....lol...Though as quick as they come out, I'd always be waiting for the next one...lol...8 should do it...lol...Till' the 16 core comes out anyway...lol

[Justin Kirchhoff]

16 gigs of ram and the full 3 terabyte HD configuration?.....what the hell am i doing wrong?

[MDP16]

Thats some loot for sure. Good man for stepping up to the plate on that one.

[Ace]

Its almost like how 15-20 years ago we were reveling at 8mhz and 16mhz cpu's. Now were in the thousands of hertz. So in the not too distant future, we shall see the parallel, thousands of cores. Gigacores!

[JD Holloway]

Our robot masters are coming...

[Ace]

Well, I for one, welcome our new robot overlords...

[Dan Blanchett]

I am considering the octo-mac this summer, but may not be able to afford 16GB + Quadro FX 512MB video card + 8 cores. My budget is 10K (hardware only, no monitor), and pimping out the system is closer to 13K. If I can only pick 2 of these 3 options to max on, and compromise on the third, which should I do? I will be using FCP, Color, Motion, maybe AE or Shake, and of course Photoshop. I was thinking only 8GB of RAM maybe...?