FCPX and dual cards effect

[qbe]

Hello,

I am wondering, did you feel any better fcpx responsiveness or difference apart from better render times by adding second card?

also message to rwillet, hope he peaks here: which ports you use for tripple monitor setup and do you use stock framebuffer? Which one?

Tx

 

[rwillett]

I did happen to peak (or even peek) here. If you want to get hold of me I'd suggest PM'ing me as I rarely look through the activity section here as most of its noobies complaining their $100 laptop from a no-name manufacturer doesn't work. I'm happy to help people who put the time in, but I have a business to build so am not prepared to hand hold too much.

Not seen much benefit to having two 280X video cards for general OS X usage. Screens don't seem to appear any faster than having just one card. Then again, nothing seems to slow down, so it may well be that I am doing nothing in normal use to stress the cards, which is fine. I wanted three monitors driven correctly for development and am happy with the result.

I don't use three ports on one card, I use two ports on one card and one port on another as thats all the connectors I had If I look at the back now, the GPU closest to the CPU has DVI-D and DP connectors and the other card has a DP connector. I don't have the right connectors for HDMI as I don't use it, my 280X doesn't have a second DP port, but an HDMI.

I do nothing for the frame buffer. Indeed I have never done anything special with the 280X, I put both cards in the system and installed everything from Yosemite onwards with them both in. Never used any flags for install apart from -v and maxmem=8192. I did do the EFI partition trick, but that was it. One of the reason for getting the 280X was not having to worry about drivers etc.

 

[qbe]

Sometimes when onlining complex projects (prores 4444, fx, cc) the interface is kinda sluggish.Sometimes even when editing multicams there is little lag, but mostly switching the video/audio/info/color board tabs in these unrendered complex projects. Was hoping second card would help with ui.

Ps: rwillet: i wanted pm, but it seems you have that feature disabled

 

[rwillett]

Sometimes when onlining complex projects (prores 4444, fx, cc) the interface is kinda sluggish.Sometimes even when editing multicams there is little lag, but mostly switching the video/audio/info/color board tabs in these unrendered complex projects. Was hoping second card would help with ui.

Ps: rwillet: i wanted pm, but it seems you have that feature disabled

FCP X doesn't appear sluggish to me, so perhaps that dual cards do help Since I don't run FCP X in single card mode, I don't know the difference. I also probably don't run that complex, massive FCP X projects.

I wasn't aware of the PM issue Have now corrected it. Slightly embarrassing.

Thanks,

Rob