RE: [Avid-L2] Upgrades to 8200?

All good tips. The latest thought it to step up to the z400.

Dave Spraker
Account Executive & Avid Specialist
Professional Video and Tape
503.810.3642 - cell
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From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
RT
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:56 PM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Upgrades to 8200?

Dave, one of the cheapest, most effective things you can do is just
upgrading to MC 4.03. Since the Avid code was retooled (to negotiate
processors) you may find, as we did, that it gives an aging MCAHD a nice
tailwind. Especially going from 2.7.

Swapping up a better nVidia card will make a huge difference in Marquee
and other GPU sucking tools.

A faster 3Gb eSATA card (or SAS card/RAID in slot 4) could provide
another kick in the pants. Plus, you can take that investment forward
to the sleek new Z600 (whenever that's qualified).

If you go 64bit, you better have drivers for all your cards and external
gear.

RT
From the middle of the pond,...

chris magid wrote:

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>
> And soon we will get to figure this all out all over again with Win 7.
> Hopefully there are not as many gotchas.
> As for V64 improvements versus XP32.
> Memory usage is the big plus. You can load your machines up with ram
> and guarantee that each legacy 32 bit application can see up to 4GB
> EACH. This means a lot to each application and has a summed advantage
> in multitasking. The operating system is also protected in its memory
> use which far better than the 3GB switch Avid recommends to squeeze
> out more RAM for Composer at the expense of wiggle room for the OS. So
> you get more stability and fewer crashes.
> If you turn off a lot of Vista's extra junk things seem to move
> faster, including the performance of windows networking via ethernet.
> If you have an XP box and V64 box around do some volume to volume
> network copies and compare the results. YIKES.
> I'm not a big Vista fan, there are some items which really irk me BUT
> it is better than XP if you have the horsepower to run it.
> Wouldn't make the move now if you haven't yet. Win 7 promises to be a
> better experience.
>
> Chris MagidRTVF
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