any stability issue whit combustion on a mac G5 ????

[luc]

hi,

i want to know if combustion is stable on mac G5. Any comment is apreciated.

thanks

luc julien

[Xavier]

Qu’est-ce qui se passe Luc???

Dis-moi pas que tu vas lâcher ton PC adoré!

🙂

— Xavier

[Rayk]

don’t know what xavier answered, but i’d wait till nab next week and maybe rethink an answer.
up to date, combustions seems to be still more stable on pc than on mac.
but this is just hear-say for me, since i’m on pc.

-rayk

[luc]

Hi

et oui Xavier, ca ma bien décourager d’avoir a l’ademettre aussi. J’ai tester le tezro hier et il reste moin performant que le G5 pour processer les sapphires.

Du coup comme je suis consultant pour monter une salle combustion sur paris j’ai du proposer le G5 comme solution hardware. Ma seul préocupation reste la stabilité. J’espère avoir des bons feedback ici. Ci oui il sera temp de passer au mac, en attendant l’itanium du moin.

J’ai tester opteron 64bits et ce n’est pas génial non plus. Microsoft tarde beaucoup trop avec la sortie de leurs windows 64. Les performances reste tres semble au dual xeon.

Je crois qu’il y aura une réel compétition entre le flame et combustion dans les mois qui viennent. Les sapphires on vraiment changer les données. A la limite ca contre un peu la mani de discreet de limiter sont mid-end par rapport a sont high-end.

le meilleur reste a venir !

Ciao

luc

[Anonymous]

Hi luc,
sorry if I don’t answer in french but is really long time that I don’t write in French… so I’ll use my bad english!

I think you should test both system before buying anything… sometimes more ideal power doesn’t match with the real performance.
In order to reasset your factory I think you should ask to your reseller a test!
If you can!
Bye!

[Rayk]

Xavier,graph,

I can understand, that you guys are pround to be french-canadian.
But this is an international board and if you like it or not most readers don’t understand french. I don’t mind if you send greetings and short messages in your native language -be it French, Italien, German, whatever.
So please try to stick with the English language. I mean what would you think, if I answer some questions in German or maybe Russian (ok, have to polish this up, quite a bit 😯 )

Nonetheless, thank you guys for being part of this forum.

rayk

[luc]

Hi chek

i think if you had a fiber channel disk array like the framestore of highend product, you probably reduce the gap between IO performance between pc,mac vs. sgi.

So it a oder bench…

See ya

[Anonymous]

Hi luc

I don’t think so,

Combustion, AE, or something like those don’t play from the disk so you cannot reproduce the stream without another software.

but shake does it (using the “-monitor” option – I’ve just read it in an italian forum : renderglobal.org).

If you have a I/O subsystem there’s no problem!

Remember this when you’ll buy your next system!

[breakfast222]

Luc,
On ne va jamais laisser tombe le flame au lieu du combustion. Ils ne veulent pas meme le faire pour Mac. Trop de competition au part de Shake. Et ils ne sont pas stupide, s’il y a du monde avec l’argent a en acheter, ils vont continuer de vendre les flames qui coutent presque dix fois plus que l’autre.

nico

[Xavier]

Hi,

Sorry for diverting the thread to French! I know Luc is a big PC fan, so I just was surprised to see him ask about the G5. I thought I would “give him a hard time” a little en Français.

For a good discussion of discreet vs. SGI vs. PCs vs. Macs, check out this thread:

http://www.fxguide.com/postt610.html

Luc, I know your interest for the G5 comes from the Sapphire tests on that other thread. I noticed that the guy with the G5 tested the Sapphires with After Effects, not Combustion. Be careful. I don’t know about plug-ins, but last time I checked (admittedly a long time ago), combustion was about half the speed of After Effects for rendering.

Make sure you get a chance to test a G5 vs. PC with the same disks, same RAM and obviously same software…

Since you like benchmarks so much:

http://www.media-motion.tv/aebenchmarks.html

http://homepage.mac.com/breadboi/shake/

Bye!

— Xavier

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