Mac pro 2012 12-core RAM questions

Hello Everyone,
I am in the market for 48 or 64 gigs of ram for my mac pro. the cheapest solution that i have found is this: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-1333MHz-240-Pin-Single-CMX8GX3M1A1333C9/dp/B006XB5 6VI/ref=sr_1_14?ie=UTF8&qid=1349058965&sr=8-14&keywords=PC3-10600E%2C+1333+MHz%2 C+DDR3+desktop+memory (i will buy 8 of these sticks)
However my only concern with that ram is that its not registered ecc ram.. is that going to be an issue for me? Will i still be able to assign 3 gigs per CPU for adobe after effects?
What are the drawback of this ram? or will this work just fine?
Thank in advance!

I think this thread says it all:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1455934
you don't and can't 'assign' anything to any cpu. You can populate the daughter board and you can innsure you have enough. And now with 10.8.2 seems you can have "too much" as it broke support for more than 64GB.
http://www.macperformanceguide.com

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It's not the hardware you want to worry about (that will be 64-bit capable, as all Macs are) but the software. If it's a recent Mac I don't think you'll have any problems at all, though - do they actually do a 32-bit release?
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If you want to use a Thunderbolt Display with your 2012 MacBook Pro, you can do it without any problem because your MacBook Pro has got a Thunderbolt port.
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Bonjour, j'ai besoin d'un avis exterieur !
Je suis graphiste, fais du motion design (sur After Effects donc) ainsi de la musique sur Ableton et je souhaite changer de machine.
On me propose un Mac pro de 2012 12 core 2,4 Ghz d'occase a un prix tres honnete, mais je me demande si le Mac pro 2013 8 cores 3,5 Ghz ne serait pas plus puissant et adapté a mes besoins.
Sachant que j'ai ouie dire que les mac récents ne sont pas super bien gérés par After effects...
Des avis?
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Si tu n'a pas encore fait ton choix…
Le modèle 2013 est un excellente machine mais il induit quelques impératifs:
- côté stocage, oublies le firewire qui ne fonctionne qu'avec un adaptateur. Les débits s'en ressentent. Quant à l'usb3, si tu envisages de laisser tous tes disques toujours allumés, ça ira. Sinon, un disque cablé mais éteint fera que chaque démarrage sera plus long que le précédent. La faute à la structure "tout externe" de l'ordi. Il te faudra donc investir dans du thunderbolt.
- Côté disque interne, à notre époque, et pour un pro, moins de 1To ça devient vite étroit!
Je te parle en connaisance de cause, j'ai depuis mars 2014 un hexa 3,5ghz. SSD 1To. Ram 32Go.
Couplé à un LaCie 5big thunderbolt, c'est un foudre de guerre! C'est l'un des Mac les plus stables que j'ai connus. Et ce qui ne gâche rien, l'ensemble est ultra-silencieux!
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I bought 4-8GB memory sticks from OWC for the mac pro 2012. Installed the 8GB mem stick in slot 1,2,3,4 and the 2GB mem sticks in slot 5,6,7 and 8. booted up the mac pro and got memory slot utility message. Should install the 8GB sticks in slots 1,2,5,6 and fill the rest the 2GB sticks. Did that that and booted up the mac pro however it took over a min to boot up and thats with a SSD drive. It took about 1 min to load FCPX and it woould take forver to render. Tested the memory, tested OK . Took out the memory and reinstalled the 2GB sticks in slots 1,2,3,5,6 and 7. Rebooted the MP STRTED RIGHT UP AS DID FCPX. Sent memory back to OWC, got a refund and bought 2-4GB memory sticks from the apple store. I just want to make sure I install them in the right slots.
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This is annoying. I'm trying to cut a feature film on this. On a two week old Mac Pro. 12-Core Mac w/ 32GB of RAM. It's becoming a liability and I'm starting to think I made the wrong choice going with Apple and Final Cut Pro X BOTH. The amount of time this software is adding to MY life timeline is ridiculous. I'm only running FCPX. No other programs. And anyhow, I should have enough RAM to run more than that w/o these problems.
A feature film means I have 400GBs of clips in the Event. This is a real life situation and a editing program needs to be able to handle that. All the media ia on a different internal 7200RPM drive that isn't running the OS.
Renaming a clip in the Event Library is slow. Adding scene and other information to a clip is slow. Processing after importing a clip from tape is slow.
I just imported 10 clips ranging from 30 secs to 3 minutes in length. They are SD from a DVX100 tape. Not even talking HD here. It's supposed to be analyzing in the background but the rainbow ball spinning constantly and allowing me only enough time to click something once before it spins again isn't "processing in the back grond" in my opinion.
I bought the best so that I wouldn't have to deal with garbage like this.
I haven't even started editing yet. I understand this is first gen of a new revamp so it's going to be buggy and crash on occassion. I know what I signed up for. but these are basic tasks. I can't even imagine how performance would be with hi res stuff.
So my question is: What the heck is the deal here? Does Apple check up on these discussions? When will I get a professional level program that actually utilizes the tools I have running under the hood?

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Ever since I updated, last Thursday, to Yosemite (on my Mac Pro 2012), I am now listed ON MY OWN COMPUTER as "Standard," not ADMINISTRATOR, which I am and have always been! Therefore, I can't open many panes in System Preferences or change any settings in it.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6510
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Which Mac Pro? More cores=slower speeds? And most of us know the speed matters or FPU for music and I don't understand the faster is for the least amount of procs. And while I get the whole rendering thing and why it makes sense.
The above is what the bar says. It's been a while and wondered, maybe Apple changed the format for forums. Then got this nice big blank canvas to air my concerns. Went to school for Computer Science, BSEE, even worked at Analog Devices in Newton Massachusetts, where they make something for apple.
The bottom line is fast CPU = more FPU = more headroom and still can't figure out why the more cores= the slower it gets unless it's to get us in to a 6 core then come out with faster cores down the road or a newer Mac that uses the GPU. Also. Few. I'm the guy who said a few years ago Mac has an FCP that looks like iMovie on Steroids. Having said that I called the campus one day to ask them something and while I used to work for Apple, I think she thought I still did as she asked me, "HOW ARE THE 32 CORES/1DYE COMING ALONG? Not wanting to embarrass her I said fine, fine and then hung up. Makes the most sense as I never quite got the 2,6,12 cores when for years everything from memory to CPU's have been, in sets of 2 to the 2nd power. 2,4,8,16,32,64,120,256,512, 1024, 2048,4196,8192, 72,768. Wow. W-O-W and will be using whatever I get with Apollo Quad.
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Thanks for your reply via email/msg. He wrote:
If you are interested in the actual design data for the Xeon processor, go to the Intel site and the actual CPU part numbers are:
Xeon 4 core - E5.1620v2
Xeon 6 core - E5.1650v2
Xeon 8 core - E5.1680v2
Xeon 12 core - E5.2697v2
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I also noticed that the 8 core Mac Pro is 3.0 when in fact they do have a 3.4 8 core chip, so 2 =16? Or if correct, wouldn't you be able to replace a QUAD CHIP WITH THAT? I;M SURE THEY ARE UO TO SOMETHING AS 1) WE HAVE SEEN NO AUDIO FPU OR PERHAPS I SHOULD CHECK OUT PC MAKERS WINDOWS machines for Sisoft Sandra "B-E-N-C-H-M-A-R-K-S" -
SOMETHINGS UP AND AM SURE WE'LL ALL BE PLEASED, AS the mac pro was announced Last year, barely made the December mark, then pushed to January, then February and now April.
Would rather wait and have it done correct than released to early only to have it benchmarked in audio and found to be slower in a few areas- - - the logical part of my brain is wondering what else I would have to swap out as I am sure it would run, and fine for a while, then, poof....
PEACE===AM SURE APPLE WILL BLOW US AWAY - they have to figure out how to increase the power for 150 watts or make the GPU work which in regard to FPU, I thought was NVIDIA?

Mac Pro 2012 crashes regularly after loading Mavericks

I upgraded the OS to Mavericks, direct from Lion, on my Mac Pro 2012 computer, since when it crashes and restarts spontaneously. Herewith the reports. Can anyone offer a straightforward solution? There is no sign of Google inspired crashes, as with other users. Is Mavericks named to draw attention to its spontaneous behaviour??
Anonymous UUID:       160508A3-8E94-9871-46A5-CEA574629558
Wed Nov 27 14:28:10 2013
panic(cpu 6 caller 0xffffff8000f683ca): "hfs_vnop_link: error 2 updating vp @ 0xffffff8023dacd20\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2422.1.72/bsd/hfs/hfs_link.c:648
Backtrace (CPU 6), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff80f17cb9c0 : 0xffffff8000c22f69
0xffffff80f17cba40 : 0xffffff8000f683ca
0xffffff80f17cbb70 : 0xffffff8000dfde97
0xffffff80f17cbbe0 : 0xffffff8000de73fe
0xffffff80f17cbf50 : 0xffffff800103de23
0xffffff80f17cbfb0 : 0xffffff8000cf3e06
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: backupd
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13A603
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Darwin Kernel Version 13.0.0: Thu Sep 19 22:22:27 PDT 2013; root:xnu-2422.1.72~6/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 1D9369E3-D0A5-31B6-8D16-BFFBBB390393
Kernel slide:     0x0000000000a00000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff8000c00000
System model name: MacPro5,1 (Mac-F221BEC8)
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Mac Pro Dual Quad Core won't boot OS/X, but plays fine with Linux/Windows

I've got a Mac Pro Dual Quad Core won't boot OS/X, but plays fine with Linux/Windows. I've tried all of the following initial tests as suggested on forums:
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-Alternating video card in PCIe slots
-Trying alternate video card
-resetting pram and smc
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-Multiple tests (8-12 cycles) with apple HW diagnostics and no problems
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Gentoo livecd works fine and I even installed to hard drive and it boots fine with it. In addition to above tests I also ran a linux stress test putting all 8 cores at a load of 22 for 2.5hrs with no problems.
Memtest86+ for 24hrs+ yields no problems.
Where problems occur:
Booting off hard drive, DVD or firewire yields an immediate curtain of death and booting off a new snow leopard DVD dies about 25% into the install.
Looking at error log and a quick dmesg shows "Package 0 didn't get an HPET" and complains about AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext. Google turns up illegal uses of this, so doesn't apply to my use case.
I'm a bit stumped since all was working well until one day it was non-stop curtains of death and can't get them to go away.
A logic board replacement at $1100 is not a feasible option for something that works on linux and windows, but not OS/X, is a bit disappointing and somewhat surprising.
Thanks for your help and advice.
Regards,
Marcos

Someone here once thought they knew EFI and Open Firmware a little, and used some commands from OF library that an Intel EFI Apple system didn't like. New logicboard.
Of course to run or boot OS X and see video you need EFI based card. The presence of some PC cards can block OS X from booting.
The fact you get part way through SL DVD, pull all the drives, put in a new drive and format it from SL DVD.
Most of the things you tried are what are more common with PC hardware. Including where people have tried and failed to install OS X on unsupported hardware.
I suppose it is possible something tried and failed to modify the Mac's firmware.
If you have Windows running, and you have WD drives, WD just posted new Lifeguard utility which is what I use to do a good job of stripping a drive down and recertify it for reuse, works wonders. Maybe same for other makes with vendor utility.

My Mac Pro tower quad core crashed and is showing a NO sign (the circle with a slash through it). How do I safely get it to come back up ? Model A1186

My Mac Pro tower quad core crashed and is showing a NO sign (the circle with a slash through it). How do I safely get it to come back up ? Model A1186

General purpose Mac troubleshooting guide:
Isolating issues in Mac OS X
Creating a temporary user to isolate user-specific problems:
Isolating an issue by using another user account
Identifying resource hogs and other tips:
Using Activity Monitor to read System Memory and determine how much RAM is being used
Starting the computer in "safe mode":
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To identify potential hardware problems:
Apple Hardware Test
General Mac maintenance:
Tips to keep your Mac in top form
Troubleshooting: My computer won't turn on
https://support.apple.com/kb/TS1367
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Migration Assistant: Problems transferring data from PC (XP SP3) to new Mac Pro 2012 - can not get Migration Assistant to work as PC will not display verfify passcode

Migration Assistant: Problems transferring data from PC (XP SP3) to new Mac Pro 2012 - can not get Migration Assistant to work as PC will not display verfify passcode
Hello, I am having problems migrating data from my old PC running XP (SP3) to my new Mac Pro 2012 using the Migration Assistant.
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I have looked on support site and only response I saw says to reinstall Windows Migration Assistant (which I have done)
Any ideas? If cant get this to workare there instructions for manually bring across relevant data eg itunes music and apps, photos, picasa data etc?

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Need help with new Mac Pro (2012)

Hi for everyone!
Few days ago, I bought a new Mac Pro (Mid 2012) MD770LL/A for my recording studio. The workstation is really powerfull and silent, but it has one major problem for me: computer comes with pre-installed Mac OS X 10.7.3 Lion, and as I understand, I can't install Mac OS X 10.6.8 on this machine. In this case, some plug-ins and instruments, that critical for my works are unavailable for me now. For example - MusicLab RealGuitar and RealLPC thru the VST to RTAS adapter (I'm using Pro Tools in my studio) don't working correctly on a Lion OSX. Unfortunately, I can't find any solution, to fix it... Even on an official support website of that software developers. Secondary, I still need Rosetta for some applications.
In that situation, my studio can't fully work.
So, what I should do??? WHY is officialy impossible to install Mac OS X 10.6.8 on a new Mac Pro, if its components is absolutely identic with Mac Pro 2010, that supported Mac OS X Snow Leo???
Thanks!
With a big hope for a help!
Alexey

Hi!
Good news for anyone, who wants to install Mac OS X 10.6.x on a Mac Pro 2012!!!
As it turned out, the original installation DVD disc from the Mac Pro 2010, fully compatible with Mac Pro 2012! The images of DVD is quite possible to find on the Internet. Just checked on my system - boot from the fresh-burned disc, and Mac OS X 10.6.4 installed without problems! After that, updated to 10.6.8 - and it works!
Personally for me - it is great news!
Everyone have a nice day! Thanks!:-)

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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227
http://www.macmaps.com/kernelpanic.html
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