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thanks for the ATI benchmark nvidia2008! if compute is close to the 250GTS but with lower TDPthis would make a great 9600M replacement...
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Quote: Originally Posted by MobileMe The 9600M GT Is the State of the Art in Mobile graphics Are you being serious!? The 9600M GT is middle-of-the-road at best, and was at release (though it probably offered a decent price/performance/power co…
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So, with genius off, equaliser off, the main app window closed, and any other CPU draining things not enabled, iTunes 9 has jumped CPU use from ~3% to ~10% on average. How do they manage to bloat iTunes with trivial features, still fail to allow …
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Just to note that the cinebench numbers for the 2.26ghz Nehalem were updated, and it is now inline with the other Nehalem processors when correcting for frequency: http://tesselator.gpmod.com/Images/_...10_Numbers.jpg (you may need to reload t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross I would have liked to see the 4870x2. I would have gone for it. ATI's newest pro boards are coming with Displayport, so it's possible that we will see one of them before too long. Nvidia has a ($2,000) b…
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Oh I agree about betting the house on multithreading for the future (assuming the non-linear cinebench result with the 2.26 is an anomoly I'd go for an octocore 2.26 over a quadcore 2.66), though I think it will take longer than we idealistically ho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Some tests here show why these machine ARE worth their price tags in performance, esp if you need high performance in many pro video editing apps etc., when these apps are properly written as many of them are.…
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Saw this question over on macrumors and it seemed pertinent here, perhaps someone knows the answer: Quote: Looking at the cinebench benchmark, if we divide the single thread scores by the processor speed for the Nehalems we get: 4074/2.93 = 1…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross They make these cards for Apple, which is the same as saying that Apple makes them. There are differences in the ROMS, and are not likely to be made on the same assy. lines, at the same time. Do you know th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross The reason why Apple's graphics boards cost so much is for the same reason. While a third party board selling to the vast PC market might sell in the hundreds of thousands, or even, for the cheaper boards, mil…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross But trying to find reasons why the Mac Pro is overpriced is not helpful, because the customers for these machines, for the most part, don't care. These are very popular in scientific research. In engineering, …
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So, two 2.26Ghz Nehalem Xeons are $848 cheaper than two 2.8Ghz Harpertown Xeons, yet this generation Octocore Mac Pro is $500 more expensive at retail price. Is that really accurate? This generation graphics card is cheap’n’cheerful (Nvidia just …
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Quote: Originally Posted by drblank I would think that anyone needing more than 8G of RAM isn't going to buy the 4 core processor and Apple is probably trying to keep the costs down, since adding connectors, etc. to offer 32G of RAM is more expen…
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Disappointing overall (unless more benchmarks show phenomenal improvements), but considering the prices of Nehalem, not surprising. What *IS* surprising is why the 4-core is locked to 8GB RAM. Instead of insulting each other, could someone with a te…
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Oh please the Gods that be! An 8-core i7 Xeon Mac Pro supporting SLI NVidia GTX 280 cards - a *real* workstation-class computer!!!! The whole point of OpenCL and Grand Central is that more compute devices will scale perfectly - dual SLI graph…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tauron Just buy the low end Mac Pro and sub in your graphics card of choice. Does OS X support the NVidia GTX 280? Or the ATI 4870 X-fire? As I understand it there is no software support. I can of course just run Vi…
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Another pertinent point in all of this, is when will Apple ever get good graphics card support!? Speccing a top-end Mac Pro I have a choice of an ATI 3870 or NVidia 8800GT[1]!!! - both are substantially outmatched on the PC side, where newly economi…