Practicality of using 2.0 Xeon Xserve Quad to run FCP

I have a 2.0 G5 PM tower. FCP 7 and OSX.6 will not run on it. But I have a 2.0 2 dual Xeons XServe, 4 gigs ram 3 500gb hds running 1.4.11 Server.

I am thinking about moving 10.4 server to the G5 (along with Kerio Mail Server) ad use the XServe as my FCP workstation.

Is this practical? I cant really afford a new MP.

Thanks
mark

I think the two (potential) problems you'll have are

1) Does your Xserve have a video card with enough memory to run FCP?

2) Noise! Can you install the Xserve somehow far enough away from your desk that you'll still be able to think?


- ask

1. Not yet. I emailed ATI and Nvidia about that yesturday but have not heard back yet. Right now the G5 has a 9600. That is working for me. So I am not sure what other card is available in PCIe that will work in the Xserve.

2. Yes it does make a bunch of noise. Right now I use the Xserve with another version of compressor. But i find it's so much faster doing the mpeg2 files that I figure the tradeoff is worth it. Besides it's been in my office now for over a year and a half and I'm used to it.