What should I upgrade to??

Hi All-
I am looking to upgrade my Mac soon. I have been doing a lot of studio work and it's time- I have a PowerMac G5 operating 10.4.3, using Logic Pro 7.2...
My question is: do a need a dual processor for my studio and Logic work? Will a single 8 Core work? Any help is appreciated! I also want to upgrade to Logic 8 Pro ..
Thanks.
P

Hi,
I've never heard of a single eight core... In Mac Pro's you have single four core and double dual core machines (both four processors), and double four cores machines (eight processors). The 'slowest' of those (the single four core "Harpertown" 2.8 Ghz) is +at least+ *three times faster* than a Powermac G5 2.0 Ghz dual...
If you have the money, go for the the 2.8 octoPro and throw as much RAM and Disks at it that you can afford to.
You'll have to sort out your compatibilities with your existing software (checking the makers sites', or the Manuals/specs/readmes etc). All software has to be Intel compatible (=Universal Binary, UB) and it has to be Leopard compatible.
If you go Leopard, after initial installation, update by using the combined sofware update: http://support.apple.com/downloads/MacOS_X_10_5_5_ComboUpdate
regards, Erik.

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Thank for everyones help so far. It seems the computer I have is a .little under speced so I was wondering what I should consider upgrading next. Memeory, CPU and GPU may be the answer but I am a student so need to take things slowly.
I Cuppently have the following setup:
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Alough it is not dropping frames playback is not ideal. A lot of the time I have sync but it does tend to go out and I have ot stop/start to get it back. This has led me to think it is the CPU/GPU that I should consider upgrading next. CPU is way under 50% so that makes me think GPU. Is GPU used to play DSLR/AVCHD?
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Is GPU used to play DSLR/AVCHD?
The GPU isn't used for any playback. It helps with effects, scaling, color space, resolution and frame rate differences, but decoding for playback is always handled by the CPU.
That isn't exactly the case. The graphics card still has to put the pixels on the screen and refresh the frame and I kid you not, I've seen PCs too slow to do that. Remember all those emachines and HP's that shipped out in 2008 with the geforce 6150 onboard? They cannot play youtube videos at full screen without chopping frames in half and skipping even with a high powered dual athlon chip and tons of RAM. They can't play DVDs or video files above about 640x480 either. All programs use the graphics card to some extent but playback of an unmodified video clip requires practically no calculations, just the OS telling the graphics card to create the separate graphics layer and put it on the screen. In your case, with the 550TI, it's fast enough to play anything though.
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I have a Dual 2.3 G5 (April 2005) with 4GB of ram, one 250GB hard drive for my boot disk, one 300GB hard drive for my scratch disk and an ATI 9650 with 256MB video ram. I use the machine for visual effects projects that consist of Video Editing, DVD Authoring, Motion Graphics, Video Compositing and 3D modeling. I run a 23" cinema display and a 14" flat tube TV for video monitoring and color correcting.
My question deals with the upgrading of my hardware. I have a budget of $500.00 to use to upgrade the performance of my G5. I want to know which of the three listed upgrade options would give me the greatest performance increase,
Option 1. Purchase a SATA expansion card, two 300GB hard drives and an internal expansion bracket for my G5. This would then allow me to have a three hard drive RAID configuration as my scratch disk. From what I have been told this would triple the read/write speed of my scratch drive and give me a big performance increase.
Option 2. Purchase 4GB of RAM and max out my G5's RAM potential. From what I have been told, this would give me better multi-tasking performance and permit me to keep more programs active. I have also been told that it will increase the performance of my render previews in After Effects and Motion.
Option 3. Purchase the ATI X800 w/ 256MB video memory. Someone advised me that the video card I have is not ideal for the 3D modeling/rendering and compositing work I perform.
So let me know what all of you think, I appreciate all suggestions and welcome any options that I have not thought of.

Before you go get another 4 GB of ram, do you know how much your already using? Keep Activity Monitor open when doing some of your heavy tasks and see if you really need more. If you find that you don't need any more, go for the video card. It is true that the 9650 is not a great card. Motion will definitely benefit.
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Just to give you an idea about ram, we run Logic to the max on our quad and only have 3GB ram. Even with loads of software instruments running, we still have over 800MB free. I'm not sure about Motion or your modeling software but video editing and dvd authoring don't really need a lot of ram.

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Never heard of a gtx480. Buy a new computer.
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Currently use Premiere Elements 3- What should I upgrade to?

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If you download the patch, you can run version 3 on Vista.
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I do not recommend using a newer version of the software to open older projects. It can lead to problems. It's best to finish your current project in your current software.
No Elements program is 64-bit compatible. However, Vista will automatically switch to compatibility mode to run 32-bit software. It's not flawless, but it usually works if you ensure that your operating system and Quicktime are up to date and that your computer is properly optimized and maintained.

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