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    TL;DNR I think the iMac Pro has problems with DisplayPort 1.2 monitors at 4K or higher resolution. I have an iMac Pro and LG31MU97 (the same monitor most of the editors at LMG have). It flat out doesn't work. I've tried 3 sets of dongles, two iMac Pros, nothing will get it to work properly. iMac Pros only have Thunderbolt 3 for video out, so you need to use the displayport over USB-C standard (as the HDMI on the LG31MU97 only does 3840x2160@30Hz, not full res or full refresh rate). It works fine on newer Macs, and even my previous Cheesegrater Mac Pro with a GTX1060, but not only does it not give an image on the iMac Pro, it flickers in and out. I realise it's a long shot to ask someone at LMG to do something (as they must get so many tech support questions all the time), but I think this might be a worthwhile and extremely quick test for them!
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    The charger sure looks like Apple's MagSafe charger, which has been probably the #1 best reason to get an Apple laptop for the past 10 years. Rumours are that Apple will drop the MagSafe in favour of USB-C for the new lineup coming this week, would be so happy to see Razer keeping magnetic chargers alive!
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    To avoid leaving both computers on, I'm thinking of just buying matching off-the-shelf 2-bay NAS drives (link to Amazon), and using Rsync to synchronise them. I found the useful term "Remote Replication" useful for researching this, and it seems there are several solutions for NAS to NAS. Sure the performance between NAS drives may be low, but my upload speed is 2mbps anyway. It doesn't seem like Resilio sync would be supported by NAS drives, but I have no experience with it. Thoughts?
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    I’m looking for a backup system that can be constantly mirroring about 10TB of data between two sites. I'm a content creator looking for a fast way for my video editor to access my projects and visa versa. Both sites will be adding or changing files. It would need to display which files were yet to synchronise, and ideally would also allow for access over the internet. Ideally, it would have a SSD cache for current projects. I would also hope it could utilise seed backups where the initial backup is hard drives physically moving to the other location. Even more ideally, I would be able to update the big data dumps in a similar manner, to avoid 150GB uploads (that take weeks). The computers accessing them on both sites are Macs and my Windows 10 machine. What software should I be looking at for this? FreeNAS? CrashPlan? Thanks for your help, I'm new to NAS systems.
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    I have an LG 31MU97 monitor (as do Linus Media Group times 12 as of recently), and a GTX 980 Ti. I mostly use my computer for colour grading and editing 4K files. The GTX 980 Ti is great at pushing that 4K resolution, but only in 8-bit colour. The monitor is capable of 10-bit colour, and I don't want to go buy a top-of-the-line Quadro or FirePro to replace the more than decent GTX 980 Ti. But there's a FirePro W2100 card that's dirt cheap and can run Cinema 4K at 10-bit colour. Does anyone know if I can run BOTH of these cards in the same system at the same time? The FirePro card for the display, and the GTX 980 Ti for processing, rendering etc. in the background. I'll be using Adobe Premiere Pro 2015. Will it understand the mix-matching? I fear Premiere will try to use the FirePro card for all processing including display. Has anyone heard of a case like this? Could it work?
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    10-bit isn't as important as colour gamut and colour accuracy. I'm seriously considering a GTX 980 Ti with the same monitor, and then a separate video out card like the Blackmagic Design Intensity Pro 4K (though that only does 30Hz). However, I can't find any that are much cheaper than a Quadro or FirePro. So: How about a GTX 980 Ti in the SAME MACHINE as an AMD FirePro W7100, where the GTX is used for CUDA cores and the FirePro is display out (as it supports 4K, 10-bit, 60Hz). Can you even run those in the same machine? What would happen? I really (really really) don't want to get a $620 FirePro shipped to me only to find out it's not compatible alongside NVIDIA cards. They use separate drivers though. Anyone got any ideas? Is anyone crazy enough to try it?
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    After more than a week of googling, I'm stumped. I edit and colour grade raw RED 4.5K footage, and am looking to upgrade my monitor and GPU. I use Adobe CC apps, so CUDA and/or OpenCL are a must. Currently, my GTX 750 Ti is doing surprisingly well, allowing play and scrub through the 4.5K footage at 1/4 resolution. The display I'm looking at is the LG 31MU97, with Cinema 4K (4096x2160) resolution and true 10-bit colour depth. However, in case the GPU can't handle it, I could get the HP Z27x with 2560x1440, 10 bit colour. So the question: What GPU to get! It really annoys me that the GTX cards can't output 10-bit colour- it's just a driver issue as far as I can tell. As far as I can tell, I can get: GTX 970 /Ti GTX 980 /Ti Quadro K2200 Quadro K4200 This is the summary I made. Is there anything else I need to consider? I can't see a clear winner. Any recommendations?
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