Calling all Mac Pro Nehalem Quad Core Owners!

[thelongmorrow]

You got it from one of my posts, that's my Quad in the picture

I am really happy with my quad 2.66, it's more than enough power for me and I get the added bonus of expansion and future proofing to some extent.

The machine does run quite hot though, I have seen CPU temps hit 59. Also it's quite power hungry, when using all 8 threads at 100% my system using just over 500w, but that does include 2 24" monitors (one Apple, on Dell) and a Drobo.

Cheers

Cris.

Yea I think it was lost in the 500+ posts of the Octo unboxing thread. Im curious how much power it will eat with the 4870....

 

[Infrared]

Cool thread guys!

Two thoughts on that CPU board...

1. I give the quad's a much higher chance of actually being able to use Turbo Boost given the size of that heat sink... it should run cooler giving it the added TDP headroom necessary to have Turbo Boost kick in.

2. It's a shame they didn't use that extra board real-estate to offer more DIMM slots. At any rate, 8GB should be plenty for now and perhaps affordable 4GB DIMMS will give us more down the road.

Re: turbo boost. I found this video quite interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RCmJWT15j0

There are clearly options for turbo boost that might
or might not be set in EFI. Something to think about