New Mac Pro 12 core

Well for many tasks Quad core is as fast as 12-core. What are you gonna use it for?
 
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Synaesthesia said:
Well for many tasks Quad core is as fast as 12-core. What are you gonna use it for?
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I currrently have the 8 core 2009 (nehalem) so I really don't need it.. I use the machine as an audio workstation, and logic 64 bit supports multithreading etc.

I'm really curious how much a hackintosh equivalent would cost, because this always comes up with people saying you can build it so much cheaper.
I'd like to see a real objective comparison.

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just started looking around - the processors for the base model 12 core (Intel Xeon X5650) are going fro around 10-11k each, so thats 20k just for the processors!
 
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Yeah you won't see much benefit going to 12-core. You will get a huge speed increase if you get good SSD's though.

As for comparison to hackintosh: Here's an 8-core Hackintosh from prices at Newegg:
Dual Socket 1366 Motherboard : $300
Let's take 2 2.66ghz Processors - $310 each = $620.
3x2gb FB-DIMM ddr3 RAM = 3x$65= $195
Let's say $100 for a hard drive.
$50 for an optical drive, or two
$150 for an Antec 1kW PSU
A nice case from Lian-li. $150
Wireless mouse & kb - let's say $60
ATi 5770 graphics - $170

So adding it up I get $1800 - quite a lot cheaper than $3299 for the Mac Pro 8-core.

Did I leave anything out?

The 12-core has 2 processors which each cost $1000! Damn!

edit: I forgot bluetooth, wifi and firewire. Let's say $200 for all that. That brings it up to $2000. So hackintosh is cheaper. But you still don't get the nice drawers for your hard drives!
 
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Synaesthesia said:
Yeah you won't see much benefit going to 12-core. You will get a huge speed increase if you get good SSD's though.

As for comparison to hackintosh: Here's an 8-core Hackintosh from prices at Newegg:
Dual Socket 1366 Motherboard : $300
Let's take 2 2.66ghz Processors - $310 each = $620.
3x2gb FB-DIMM ddr3 RAM = 3x$65= $195
Let's say $100 for a hard drive.
$50 for an optical drive, or two
$150 for an Antec 1kW PSU
A nice case from Lian-li. $150
Wireless mouse & kb - let's say $60
ATi 5770 graphics - $170

So adding it up I get $1800 - quite a lot cheaper than $3299 for the Mac Pro 8-core.

Did I leave anything out?

The 12-core has 2 processors which each cost $1000! Damn!

edit: I forgot bluetooth, wifi and firewire. Let's say $200 for all that. That brings it up to $2000. So hackintosh is cheaper. But you still don't get the nice drawers for your hard drives!
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yeah i think maybe ssd is a better upgrade path.

in terms of the hackintosh thing, you can build it cheaper.. but if you use the same parts the price seems to jump quite a lot, eg the 2009 base model octa has two of these

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117189&cm_re=nehalem-_-19-117-189-_-Product (at $568 each)

however they seem to be using cheaper processors in the new octa model.

Just mulling it over.. next time I do a machine upgrade I'll look at it more in depth and do a proper cost comparison and see if it's worth it to go hackintosh, but yeah as you say, it does look like you can build a hackintosh for less, depending on what you're after.
 
SSD really provides a quantum leap in performance, CPUs are so fast that processes are bound by I/O speeds. For example, with a good SSD, apps seem to open like 5 times faster.
 
Synaesthesia said:
SSD really provides a quantum leap in performance, CPUs are so fast that processes are bound by I/O speeds. For example, with a good SSD, apps seem to open like 5 times faster.
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probably also great for audio samples, will look into it!
do you use ssd?
 
Nope, can't afford right now but I'll probably get a new Intel SSD when they come out at the end of the year.
 
True - they might even run faster. But that goes without saying since they [-]do much less[/-] are more secure.
 
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True - they might even run faster. But that goes without saying since they [-]do much less[/-] are more secure.
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Shame talking about something you have no knowledge of again?
 
Just ordered mine! So excited! This will last me a while, i hope.

Ps. never believe anything said on a forum, unless it's me.
 
macboer said:
Just ordered mine! So excited! This will last me a while, i hope.

Ps. never believe anything said on a forum, unless it's me.
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Cool - let me know if you want a good deal on Windows 7 64bit. I'm a M$ partner and a sweet machine like that can do with a real OS like 7 ;)
 
Who buys a Mac just to run Windows? It's something you only do when you absolutely have to ..
 
@Rouxenator:rolleyes:

@Macboer: Get an SSD for that sucker. Sandforce or Intel.
 
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