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2007 Harpertown Stoakley-Seaburg Motherboard With New Graphics Cards 8-Core Mac Pro

Are You Waiting For A Stoakley-Seaburg and 2007 Graphics Cards 8-Core Mac Pro

  • No. I bought the FrankenMac

    Votes: 30 7.1%

  • Yes I Will Wait 'Til Apple Gets It Right

    Votes: 246 58.0%

  • Not sure. Waiting for benchmarks on the 4.4.07 model.

    Votes: 27 6.4%

  • I'll stick with 4 cores, thank you very much.

    Votes: 121 28.5%
  • Total voters
    424
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darthraige said:
We all know Apple is not gonna want to wait until January to start using these insane chips. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday are gonna be really interesting days. Update is going to happen this week.
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I hope that your "Jedi" skills serve you well and your predictions come to light.

As far as updates go with the MacPro I have been let down way too many times. I think we are in for another.
 
More press releases, no ship dates....

http://www.supermicro.com/newsroom/pressreleases/2007/press111207b.cfm

Supermicro Launches PCI-E Gen 2 Servers and Workstations with 1600 FSB and 800 MHz MemoryFirst with Low-Power 1.5V FB-DIMM Memory Support

SAN JOSE, California, November 12, 2007 - Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: SMCI), a leader in application optimized high performance server solutions, today launched new lines of motherboards, servers and workstations optimized for 1600 FSB Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5400 Series (Harpertown) and Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5200 Series (Wolfdale-DP) processors. These latest dual-processor (DP) server and workstation solutions deliver sharply increased performance, energy efficiency and memory capacity. These new systems are now on display at SuperComputing 2007 in Reno, Nevada, booth 1229, from November 12-15.

"With support for a 1600 MHz dual point-to-point CPU bus and 800 MHz 1.5V FB-DIMM memory, as well as Gen 2 PCI-Express, our new SuperServers and workstations based on the Intel 5400 (Seaburg) chipset deliver more than 30% system performance gains*," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "These highly scalable solutions offer more high-performance expansions slots and double the I/O bandwidth capacity of Gen 1 PCI-Express. Optimized for memory-hungry applications, Supermicro already fully supports low-power 1.5-volt fully-buffered DDR2 (FBD) memory on these new solutions to maximize energy efficiency and save up to 40 watts on memory power consumption per system."

"The new Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series and Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5200 series processors are enabling Supermicro to provide its customers with new levels of performance and flexibility in DP server solutions," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president, Digital Enterprise Group, Intel Corporation. "The breakthrough performance per watt of these new Intel Xeon processors is enabling Supermicro to innovate around highly scalable designs from 1U to 4U and tower servers."
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As was reported by AppleInsider last month, Apple plans to be amongst the first PC manufacturers to adopt the new 5400 Harpertown series as part of an upcoming revision to its professional Mac Pro workstations.
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They may get the date right ;) , but perhaps "amongst the first" is going to end up being "amongst the last"...
 
Lord Blackadder said:
I dunno, is Apple really that far behind? It seems that the chips have only just launched...
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It's all relative....

At this point, HP, SuperMicro and Lenovo have made formal announcements.

The Dell PE2950 and Fujitsu RX300 were mentioned in Intel's press release.

With 5 companies already showing systems, Apple's announcement won't be among the first.


darthraige said:
Penryn, today, is already old. lol
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You're right - Apple's taken so long with Penryn that they might as well wait for Nehalem! ;)


Wild-Bill said:
As long as they ship first, as in tomorrow or Wednesday. :D
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Well, I already have my pair of SuperMicro Penryns, so they'll never be first in my eyes. ;)

Seriously, though, being first by a few days isn't that important. Waiting until January, however, would be unfortunate.
 
AidenShaw said:
With 5 companies already showing systems, Apple's announcement won't be among the first.
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As long as they ship first, as in tomorrow or Wednesday. :D

If Apple delays the Mac Pro update until January, I'm throwing in the towel and building a Hackintosh.
 
Wild-Bill said:
As long as they ship first, as in tomorrow or Wednesday. :D

If Apple delays the Mac Pro update until January, I'm throwing in the towel and building a Hackintosh.
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I might be there with you. I think I can build a pretty fat box for $2500. :D
 
suneohair said:
I might be there with you. I think I can build a pretty fat box for $2500. :D
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Thirded,I would build if..

The bottleneck just seems to be the gfx card section. How can you run decent cards (read,the 8800 series) in the hackintosh box,as apple lags behind that section too?
Put in a radeon x2900? Or get an discontinued(?) x1900?
I´ll pass...
:(


Ps.Of course,if people have managed to circumvent that problem.
 
Macinposh said:
Thirded,I would build if..

The bottleneck just seems to be the gfx card section. How can you run decent cards (read,the 8800 series) in the hackintosh box,as apple lags behind that section too?
Put in a radeon x2900? Or get an discontinued(?) x1900?
I´ll pass...
:(


Ps.Of course,if people have managed to circumvent that problem.
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Well head over to OSX86 forums. The Leopard install was cake on a Intel box. I can only imagine they have made strides in the graphics card arena as well, considering there is a 8x00 series driver.
 
suneohair said:
I might be there with you. I think I can build a pretty fat box for $2500. :D
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Would you go X38 and quad-core, or try the Octo-core route with Seaburg?

I'm getting ready to build a BoneTrail system - probably start with 4 GiB of RAM and a Q6600 (2.4 GHz quad). Next summer or so get more memory and a Penryn quad after the price cuts. (This will replace a 2.6 P4 with 2 GiB of 800MHz RDRAM, so it will be a big jump even with a Q6600.)

Although, with Anandtech reporting that the Q6600 on an X38 can overclock to 3.8 GHz, maybe I will wait for Nehalem! ;)
 
suneohair said:
Well head over to OSX86 forums. The Leopard install was cake on a Intel box. I can only imagine they have made strides in the graphics card arena as well, considering there is a 8x00 series driver.
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Tsaah!

Consider it done.

Just that it will be embarising to build a "gaming" machine (overclocked quad,propably) that will beat the crap out of my MP 3.0...

Well,I think I can live with that.
:)
 
This is really frustrating. The machine is old and overpriced. They still ask for a lot when you want to update it to octo. Intel slashed prices -> no change. Intel released new processors-> no change. What part of PRO are we talking about here? Isn't it Intel's aim to update workstations first before consumers computers? Not to mention that the chips are available NOW. This Apple business is really annoying.
 
I think we will definitely not see any Mac Pro update until 10.5.1 is out. Today we got 10.4.11 Update for Tiger, which might have support for the new platform (mainboard, graphic cards etc.).

But for Leopard, I think 10.5.1 does it.


When it's not this week, then next week or the week after next week. I think sometimes in November. But we will see :)
 
Death Warrant said:
I think we will definitely not see any Mac Pro update until 10.5.1 is out. Today we got 10.4.11 Update for Tiger, which might have support for the new platform (mainboard, graphic cards etc.).

But for Leopard, I think 10.5.1 does it.


When it's not this week, then next week or the week after next week. I think sometimes in November. But we will see :)
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I would so love that. I can't bear the waiting anymore. I sold my PC and bought iMac just to increase my workflow but it is still not fast enough especially when you want to render something. (2 cores is not 8) :) I wish I had loads of money so I wouldn't have to worry about it and buy the octo straight away but I am still a student/freelancer and to shell out £3000 is just not an option atm. I have £2000 waiting for the new MP. This waiting became an obsession and it starts to bother me. :)
 
Gloor said:
This waiting became an obsession and it starts to bother me. :)
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I'm also waiting for a quite long time. But it does not bother me. When Apple is ready, I'm ready. It just needs some time. Finally you will get your Mac Pro and you will be satisfied.

Waiting for something new is a great thing mate. It's keeps me awake :-D
 
Death Warrant said:
I'm also waiting for a quite long time. But it does not bother me. When Apple is ready, I'm ready. It just needs some time. Finally you will get your Mac Pro and you will be satisfied.

Waiting for something new is a great thing mate. It's keeps me awake :-D
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Yes, that is correct. But checking Macrumors 40x a day is really really like a drug :) Pls, bring on the MP so I can finally rest :)
 
Gloor said:
Yes, that is correct. But checking Macrumors 40x a day is really really like a drug :) Pls, bring on the MP so I can finally rest :)
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If you mean you're checking the home page for updates, I greatly recommend you get an RSS feed :)
 
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