Save yourself a couple grand and buy a pc, then put the money into a 5800 and liquid cooling, or 64 gb ram. With 32 gb ram in a 6 physical core (say the new core i7 3930K) machine you get 4 gb ram per core in AE. Just an idea.

On Mar 17, 2012 5:40 PM, "Chris Meyer" <chris@crishdesign.com> wrote:

Speaking of crucial, I bought Crucial-brand RAM in the end, and it's been fine so far.

I got "only" 24 GB of RAM, and wish I had gotten 48. As it turns out, 24GB is not enough to really take advantage of all the cores I have when I do a multiprocessor render.

And the Quadro 4000 is a nice video card.

update on an old thread -

Chris

On Mar 17, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Enrique Gamez wrote:

This does not seem OT to me since properly outfitted computers are crucial to do any kind of AE/motion graphics whatsoever.

-e

From: Chris Meyer <chris@crishdesign.com>
Reply-To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:49:52 -0600
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: [AE] OT: the latest version of the Mac RAM advice thread

For tax planning, Trish has informed me that I must - over my feeble protests - upgrade my 3-year-old MacPro tower to a new 12-core machine, fully kitted out if possible. (Please send chocolate in lieu of sympathy cards.)

I must admit I wasn't paying attention in class when others were discussing optimal RAM configurations for the 12-cores. Was it 24 gig, or 32 gig? Allocated how across the DIMMs?

Also, who are the preferred vendors for Mac RAM these days? We used to be Techworks fans, but after they got taken over (and then dropped) by Buffalo Technology, the quality plummeted - Trish and I have had 3 RAM failures this year. The OWC RAM I've plugged in as replacements has worked so far, but more current experiences are always appreciated.

Finally, folks still happy with the Quadro 4000? Should I move my 4800 from my old tower into the new one and stick the 4000 in our "training" machine, or vice versa? Keeping in mind that the new machine will inevitably come with Lion, which I've been avoiding so far.

many, many thanks in advance for your hard-earned experiences and advice -

Chris

+---End of message---+

To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv>