>From what I could find out, the 5870 is designed for Mac Pros from 2009 and
>later. Mine is the early one. You say yours is the same model as mine and
>handles the later card okay?
--Bob Whitmire
On Sep 26, 2010, at 4:01 PM, SwissPace wrote:
> Dump the X1900 which sorry to say was always a bad card and buy a new
> 5870 or 5780 (check www.barefeats.com **). I have the 2.66 version of
> yours and noticed a big gain going from 2 to 4gigs but not so much going
> to 12, but I also recommend adding more memory as its cheap. also buy a
> new larger disk again check out barefeats.com for best disk, but newer
> disks are also faster and install osx on it and do a migration - easy to
> do and then you can keep the original as a backup.
>
> so I would recommend
> check cs4 settings use the memory (can't remember where I found that
> maybe luminous landscapes,
> then
> graphic card
> then
> more memory
> then
> faster disk
>
> BTW an SSD drive makes a phenominal difference on my macbook pro but
> until they get cheap enough don't recommend it ( I have a smallish one
> as system disk and data on a normal disk but that's a bit more
> complicated to set up).
>
>>> Okay, so I'm running an early Mac Pro with 2, 3gig Intel dual-core Xenon
>>> processors, 4 gigs of ram, 500mb hard drive on Snow Leopard. The video card
>>> is a relatively new ATY,RadeonX1900. But the 'puter seems to be feeling a
>>> bit infirm, at least when futzing around with layered CS4 files. I'm
>>> wondering if another 8 gigs of ram would significantly speed things up.
>>> Frankly, I'm not in the mood right now to buy another computer. When I got
>>> this one I couldn't imagine how I'd ever need any more than a dual-core 3
>>> gig machine. Phew! Also thinking of a RAID array to maybe make it faster,
>>> but if more ram won't help, I may have to go ahead and bite the bullet for
>>> more firepower.
>>>
>
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