Mac Pro Suitable Nehalem (Core i7) Processors Due in 1st Quarter 2009

[dr. shdw]

Anyone that needs that much would likely have more than one machine - a render farm -for dedicated tasks. No point in having it shoved in there. Well, more is always better... but then the power supply would need to jump up, cooling would be problematic, noise etc, etc... But I do like the spirit of it.

Also for a 4 CPU workstation, you're looking at a much bigger case and probably a starting cost of $8000-10000+ per machine. The MP processors get expensive quick..

 

[Kusakun]

Let´s wait and see... No one else gave information of the Macpro. So... I´ll wait for other pages to release the information

 

[Umbongo]

Nehalem based Xeon comes Mar 29th
Intel plans to star selling Nehalem based Xeon processors on what seems to be the last Sunday of Q1 2009. Xeon W 55xx, Xeon X 55xx, Xeon L 55xx and Xeon E 55xx versions will start selling as of March 29th, and you can expect them available as of March 30th, the first working day of that week. They are all Nehalem based of Nehalem EX to be precise, as we do talk about server CPUs.

The top dog Xeon quad core W5580 works at 3.2GHz has 8MB of cache and 6.4GB/s QPI. It comes in LGA1366 packaging and it will sell for $1557, while every other SKU will be cheaper. The runner up Xeon X5570 clocked at 2.93GHz will sell for $1349 and launches the same day.

These are, of course, the wholesale prices and if you don’t buy many of them, you will end up paying even more for them in etail / retail. An interesting part is that Intel will be selling the cooling solution for these CPUs separately, which was never the case before.

source: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11717&Itemid=1

Apple launched the 2006 Mac Pro 6 weeks after the release date of Xeons and the 2008 Mac Pro was 8 weeks.