New Mac Pro

[Polygon]

What is "flawlessly" tho Poly lol... Certain peoples definition of "flawless" can vary... GREATLY

I know some of my antique games just can't run smoothly on my win7 rig. Microstuttering et all, i'm calling on too much performance hehe

Vintage systems with vintage old cases :P Components that were about to be thrown in the trash at local computer shops etc etc.

Flawlessly means that... well... i don't really know what it means, but there's a certain...satisfaction in seeing a computer crunching away a session of doom2 :P

[Polygon]

Darn yeah we derailed this thread but it's becoming AWESOME!

[mdcdesign]

Best card for an "old" system, without a doubt, is the GF4 Ti4600.

The good news is, they're only about £15 now I used to have a Quadro FX3000 which was pretty badass; managed to get it second hand for £200 which was an insane price at the time, but the guy I bought it off had just upgraded to the 4000 (to play Quake & Unreal, I should add).

[balakoth]

Best card for an "old" system, without a doubt, is the GF4 Ti4600.

The good news is, they're only about £15 now I used to have a Quadro FX3000 which was pretty badass; managed to get it second hand for £200 which was an insane price at the time, but the guy I bought it off had just upgraded to the 4000 (to play Quake & Unreal, I should add).

I got an old Dual G5 sitting somewhere with a hacked firmware version of a BFG6900 hehe I loved that card

[Polygon]

Best card for an "old" system, without a doubt, is the GF4 Ti4600.

The good news is, they're only about £15 now I used to have a Quadro FX3000 which was pretty badass; managed to get it second hand for £200 which was an insane price at the time, but the guy I bought it off had just upgraded to the 4000 (to play Quake & Unreal, I should add).

An fx4k to... play quake? what? xD

[balakoth]

An fx4k to... play quake? what? xD

My i7 that got replaced by this machine is running an Linux server with GCC and Apache on it.. lol... we do it because we CAN poly!

[padi_04]

Back to topic please.

[Polygon]

padi party breaker

If we go back on topic we'll probably step into someone's hatemachine again.

[R01]

Back to topic please.

There is speculation that major digital audio manufacturers might be working on incorporating thunderbolt technology more effectively. Most believe that companies like Avid and Apogee might be working on AD/DA converters that have a built-in Thunderbolt converters. This would go hand in hand with new Thunderbolt optical cables as seen here. I'm hoping they develop a system where they push out directly to Thunderbolt, reducing latency even more.

The only thing I'm not sure about is how they'll handle DSP technology in the future. If the scene seems to be moving away from PCI-E in terms of connections, then an-out of box DSP solution would be needed. It wouldn't surprise me if Avid or Apogee would put out "DSP Racks" that can be connected to your converter of choice and put out multiple digital signals, including Thunderbolt. This would actually be very smart, as it would make things more modular since you wouldn't be tied to specific computers that had to have physical PCI-E cards installed inside. You'd be able to switch out computers on the fly, making such a set-up ideal for live or on-site recordings.

I'm also sure that if they we're to focus on a more modular solution like this, they could improve latency across the converters and the DSP racks. As technology gets better I'm sure they could make it so the latency is at the current 0.7 MS they have for Pro Tools HDX. Which in term would make the only latency bottle-neck the computer hooked up to your set-up. It would be ideal since it could potentially future proof itself for a long time, as long as transport methods don't change too rapidly.

Here's hoping.

[SlvrDragon50]

That's kind of my point. With a custom built computer you have the ability to go between gaming AND firepro if you ever need it. FirePro excels where gaming is sluggish and vice versa.

All the rest, a custom built computer will always demolish that Mac. I'm sure if you swapped out balakoth's GPUs with FirePros it would annihilate the Mac Pro.