davemartone
Hello Tony Carpenter. I am thinking of doing the same thing.
I have Logic x UAD Quad Thunderbolt as well as Apollo 8 Thunderbolt.
How are you accessing the UAD Quad?
THanks
Dave Martone
www.davemartone.com
PC side doesn't have "PCIe via Thunderbolt" for Thunderbolt 2.
We do (now) have official support for "PCIe via Thunderbolt" for Thunderbolt 3.
You need one of the latest Z170x (Skylake) motherboards that supports Thunderbolt 3 via USB-C connection... and you have to run Win10.
Microsoft claim that TB3 should be backward compatible with TB2 and TB1 devices... but they don't guarantee it.
About Mac Pros:
You're going to pay $4000 for a new (top tier) Mac Pro Cylinder.
- Six-core i7 at 3.9GHz
- 16GB DDR3 RAM
- 256GB SSD
- No PCIe slots (Thunderbolt is the only means to access the PCIe bus)
- No internal drive bays (external USB3 or Thunderbolt only)
Mac compatible RAM is $300 for 32GB of DDR3/1866
External Thunderbolt 1TB conventional HD is $200
To "deck out" the Mac Pro Cylinder with 64GB RAM and say 8 SSDs/HDs (via Thunderbolt), you're talking $6000+
On the PC side, you've got Six-core i7 based machines (x99 chipset) with up to 128GB DDR4 (faster RAM).
You've got internal PCIe slots (much less expensive than Thunderbolt peripherals)
You've got 10 internal SATA ports (and room in a quality case for up to 10 internal drives)
Well under half the cost of the Mac Pro Cylinder... and faster.
For DAW purposes, Xeon CPUs buy no additional performance (Mac or PC).
If the Xeon is running at lower clock-speed, you're taking a performance hit compared to standard i7.
If you've got the Mac... and want to run Windows... that makes sense.
If you're buying a Mac specifically to run Windows/applications... you're paying significantly more for lower performance.
One other small thing when running under Bootcamp:
Though it should work smoothly (and most often does)... you technically have no official support.