On 30/04/2006, at 7:55 AM, George Leger III wrote: > > On Apr 29, 2006, at 1:59 PM, jonathankek2000 wrote: > >> I've been waiting for 3 years for my UAD-1 card to be fully >> compatible >> with OS X and it's still not delivering the way it's supposed to, >> hence the 70% limit on the UAD-1 card for CPU usage. My friends doing >> audio on the PC are making similar complaints about the UAD-1 CPU >> efficiency. > > > Anyone who has been following the UAD-1 Mac thing has a pretty good > idea that Apples use of the AMD8131 chip is the cause of the Mac > issues. > > And to stand up for UA, I have 2 UAD-1's and have found that UA > continually add new plug-ins to the package (paid as they may be), > and have allowed me to finally have the sound of a Roland Dimension D > to mix with, one of my all time favorite processing units. I'm with you George. I run 2 UAD's in a non AMD 8131 Dual 2ghz G5 and regularly run them over 90% with complete stability and no computer slow down. Because I owned 2 UAD's and also a PCI audio card that I was happy with I opted to get this G5 last November to ride out the Intel transition for the next 2-3 years. So far so good. I'm also now starting to get very good node performance from a dual 1GHZ G4 with a $30 Gigabit ethernet card... Regards ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Paul Najar Jaminajar Music Production www.jaminajar.com