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Setmose

macrumors regular
Nov 7, 2007
169
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Jerusalem, Israel
!! 3.2 GHz Xeons (Penryn) to Ship in November

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139511/article.html

Intel will ship 12 new quad-core Intel Xeon 5400 server chips in November with clock speeds ranging from 2GHz to 3.20GHz, with a 12MB cache. In December, it will ship three dual-core Xeon 5200 server chips with clock speeds of up to 3.40GHz and a 6MB cache.

[Seems to line up with the various Apple rumors about buying-off the 3.2 GHz bins.]
 

darthraige

macrumors 68000
Aug 8, 2007
1,612
2
Coruscant, but Boston will do.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,139511/article.html

Intel will ship 12 new quad-core Intel Xeon 5400 server chips in November with clock speeds ranging from 2GHz to 3.20GHz, with a 12MB cache. In December, it will ship three dual-core Xeon 5200 server chips with clock speeds of up to 3.40GHz and a 6MB cache.

[Seems to line up with the various Apple rumors about buying-off the 3.2 GHz bins.]

You're about 10 hours too late. lol
 

Setmose

macrumors regular
Nov 7, 2007
169
1
Jerusalem, Israel
!! And it is the 1600 MHz FSB, also New System Chips

http://www.crn.com/hardware/202804891?pgno=2

The first two offerings of Penryn-family products include 16 new server and high-end PC processors, priced at between $177 and $1,279 in quantities of 1,000. Included in the mix released Monday are 12 quad-core Xeon 5400 processors with clock speeds ranging from 2.0GHz to 3.20GHz, FSB speeds up to 1600MHz and a 12MB cache...

Meanwhile, Intel is also launching three new platforms that support 45nm chips. These include the 5400 or "Stoakley" chipset for high-performance computing (HPC)...

["High Performance Computing", I like the sound of that. Will HPC spell a new bus architecture in Mac Pro?]
 

slackpacker

macrumors 6502a
the 8800 GT would be the best price performance wise
clearly better than the GTS: cheaper, less power hungry and not as loud while being more than 15-20% faster and really close to the GTX up the 95% of the GTX performance at half the cost ... which means you can build a GT SLI combo for the price of 1 GTX .. only shortcoming of the GT is the 512 mb vram which limits on AA and AF on high resolutions (beating all ati cards though ;) )

They currently don't work.... ggrr offically... Apple better support the 8800 Nvidia cards because the ATI cards are being eaten alive by them. Like the other posts I may have to just buy a cheap PC instead if Apple does not support the latest Graphics processors in the next revision of Mac Pro's. I want to kill two birds with one stone.. A gaming machine (Bootcamp) as well as my work machine (OSX)
 

thedudeAbides

macrumors member
May 3, 2007
72
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Excellent Power/Performance

the 8800 GT would be the best price performance wise
clearly better than the GTS: cheaper, less power hungry and not as loud while being more than 15-20% faster and really close to the GTX up the 95% of the GTX performance at half the cost ... which means you can build a GT SLI combo for the price of 1 GTX .. only shortcoming of the GT is the 512 mb vram which limits on AA and AF on high resolutions (beating all ati cards though ;) )

in customer cards the obvious performance king is still the 8800 ultra (GTS and GTX are pointless since the GT release)


also ati has new cards coming out next 2 weeks or so going to compete with the 8800 GT


for the lower end (customers not caring about 3d) we might be more looking at 8600 stuff.. i doubt apple will go for cards elss than that sicne that would make the base imac models with the 2600 better than the Pro

just hope that they don't go with the x2900 from ATI as top customer solution ... it wasn't a performance monster to begin with and already outperformed today

Anandtech does an indepth review of the 8800 GT and the price/performance is amazing. it would be a natural for the mac pro as a base graphics card, with options for sli. does anyone know if there is or will be a mobile version of this card, potentially for the macbook pro or imac?

thedudeabides
 
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