faster? Older?

[sbb155]

If I buy a dual 2 or 2,66 ghz mac pro (dual core), and get a fast ssd for apps and boot, will it be faster than a quad core 3299$ machine with hdd?
I could buy the old one for 1200-1500 + 300 for intel ssd.... lots cheaper than a dual quad core nehalem....
xbench? geekbench?

 

[dr. shdw]

Depends what you're using it for..

The Nehalem based Xeon's are much much quicker..

 

[Tallest Skil]

Depends what you're using it for..

The Nehalem based Xeon's are much much quicker..

For... multithreaded apps, and there aren't a lot of those. A Harpertown eight-core 2.8 will be faster than a Gainestown eight-core 2.26 in a single-threaded app.

 

[BlueLightStudio]

This is in no way a Professional Opinion, but my suggestion would be to buy within your means. If you need something now and you only have 12 - 15 hundred to spend on it, yeah it most likely won't be AS Fast as the $3300 Newest Best out there, but taking only 10 minutes to render something in FCP instead of 15 minutes might not be worth the extra $1000 for you.

I'm moving up to a 2.0 quad first gen mac pro from a 1.67 g4 power book. Well, that's my 2 cents, I'm sure people might find flaws in that logic.

 

[nanofrog]

Additional details on usage would help. 😉