- Joined
- Sep 15, 2012
- Messages
- 182
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-X99-Designare EX
- CPU
- i7-6950X
- Graphics
- GTX 750 Ti
- Mac
Now that's cool ! And you're going with the Intel Z77RE-75K board ? What version of OSX will you be running ? What version of PT do you use ? I read somewhere in this thread that you wanted to use an UAD Apollo, do you already have it ?
And hey ! 20+ years of PT ? Wow ! You must have seen the very 1st version !
Yes, although it only has one Thunderbolt port it does have more SATA and USB ports than the Gigabyte equivalent. I need to be able to hot swap drives.
Mountain Lion 10.8.2. I am not afraid of running the latest version. Just check Avid's site to make sure. I usually wait 4-6 months before stepping up to the next major version.
I am also running the latest PT 10.3. Remember 64 bit is around the corner and this is a game changer. Right now PT will only have 3 Gigs of RAM available natively because it is still 32 bit. This is one of the reasons why you can buy a Mac Pro, but never really touch on its true power. HD rigs have RAM Disk Cache and their own processing cards to get around this.
To have access to all your RAM you need 64 bit which is supposedly going to be in PT 11. This will get everyone one step closer to a PT HD rig. Putting all your virtual instruments on a SSD will also make an improvement. You want to try to run your sessions almost entirely in RAM if you can.
So...you need PT 11 (64 bit) to access all of your RAM then you need a Thunderbolt interface to get your latency down to less than 2ms. That is when you start competing with a HD rig that would run you between $5000.00 - $9000.00.
Thunderbolt is the other game changer. Firewire and USB have terrible latency. These are basically consumer grade interfaces for entry level recording. The first time you run a session at 64 samples you start to understand the importance of this....
It should be delivered to me today.
One of the first and it was a pain in the ass...