What's up guys. Just got a 2009 Mac Pro 4,1; specs in my sig. The performance on this thing isn't really up to par at all with my other Macs nor the PC it replaced. I'm hoping someone can give some tips.
Some of the issues I'm having is slowness for one. It boots up lightning fast and everything feels snappy. When browsing the internet (please don't mention having internet on a DAW machine), everything is fast. But once I start installing something in the background or transfer some files, the internet loading is dramatically decreased, with both Chrome and Safari. Once background tasks are done, internet speed is normal.
Another issue is I've done some quick Pro Tools testing and I got some popping and clicks at 64MB at one point on a small session with less than to plugins. Also got a cpu overload error once. And the meters seem a bit sluggish.
Lastly, while trying to install Komplete 9 from the DVD's, the install always fails around disk G or H, which takes almost 2 hours just to get to. I've used these disks to install on my iMac and a couple times on my PC and never had a single failed install. The Mac Pro even had a couple failed installs while installing a couple plugins, which eventually went through successfully on the second install.
Other than these issues, everything seems fine. I did a fresh install of Mountain Lion 10.8.4 as soon as I got it. I also tried disabling Spotlight for all harddrives except the os drive. This didn't make any difference. My custom built PC specs are below and so far the Mac Pro doesn't perform as well. My iMac also performs flawlessly with several background tasks running AND multiple users signed onto the computer. So I'd think a computer with 8 cores and 32GB ram would be ridiculous.
I'm wondering if I could have defective RAM or just Google Chrome acting up?! Any ideas?
Old PC Specs - Custom Mid Tower - Q6600 Quad OC'ed to 3.4GHz - Windows 7 Pro x64 - EP45T-UD3LR Motherboard - - ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series 512MB DDR2 - Cooler Master V8 CPU cooler - 16GB G. Skill DDR3 1333 RAM
Some of the issues I'm having is slowness for one. It boots up lightning fast and everything feels snappy. When browsing the internet (please don't mention having internet on a DAW machine), everything is fast. But once I start installing something in the background or transfer some files, the internet loading is dramatically decreased, with both Chrome and Safari. Once background tasks are done, internet speed is normal.
Another issue is I've done some quick Pro Tools testing and I got some popping and clicks at 64MB at one point on a small session with less than to plugins. Also got a cpu overload error once. And the meters seem a bit sluggish.
Lastly, while trying to install Komplete 9 from the DVD's, the install always fails around disk G or H, which takes almost 2 hours just to get to. I've used these disks to install on my iMac and a couple times on my PC and never had a single failed install. The Mac Pro even had a couple failed installs while installing a couple plugins, which eventually went through successfully on the second install.
Other than these issues, everything seems fine. I did a fresh install of Mountain Lion 10.8.4 as soon as I got it. I also tried disabling Spotlight for all harddrives except the os drive. This didn't make any difference. My custom built PC specs are below and so far the Mac Pro doesn't perform as well. My iMac also performs flawlessly with several background tasks running AND multiple users signed onto the computer. So I'd think a computer with 8 cores and 32GB ram would be ridiculous.
I'm wondering if I could have defective RAM or just Google Chrome acting up?! Any ideas?
Old PC Specs - Custom Mid Tower - Q6600 Quad OC'ed to 3.4GHz - Windows 7 Pro x64 - EP45T-UD3LR Motherboard - - ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series 512MB DDR2 - Cooler Master V8 CPU cooler - 16GB G. Skill DDR3 1333 RAM