To upgrade or not to upgrade ? HD3 & Mac

[BLUElightCory]

The newest Mac Pros have PCIe busses so there would be no need to change your HD cards.

The 2009 Mac Pros are supposed to have the new Intel chips but I don't think there's been any talk (so far) of changing from PCIe to anything else.

It might be worth waiting for the new Mac Pros because either a. You can get more power for the same amount of money, or b. You can get a better deal on a current-gen Mac Pro.

[mac black]

Thanks mate, sorry, I have a PCI X ...rather

[narcoman]

use a chassis. Yu can pick up the old Avid ones that work very well for peanuts and put the $180 PCIx to PCIe card in and bingo, you're away.

[mac black]

Originally Posted by narcoman

use a chassis. Yu can pick up the old Avid ones that work very well for peanuts and put the $180 PCIx to PCIe card in and bingo, you're away.

but then you get latency problems ... no ?

[videoteque]

If you really needed it you wouldn't be asking...

Make money with your G5 until you can!!!

[wildpark]

too keep pcix your lost money in a big way !

better sell it now if you can !

probaply you might use pcie for the next 2 years until next big thing is comming out.

[aussie_techie]

PCI-e specs were out years before it was actually implemented, i havnt seen anything new in the works and pci has been around a good 12+ years so you can be sure PCIe wont be going anywhere or some time.

digidesign will come out with something new before the bus standard changes.

as to an upgrade, why do you feel you need to?
has your work changed? or are you use more/different tools?
if your doing the same work you always have then i cant see why particularly if your running most of your processing on the HD cards.