My iBook idles at around 45c!macenforcer said:CPU Temps are now idleing at 26c. Thats almost freakin room temperature.
What's your Mac Mini doing with all those Mac Pros? Wait, what are you doing with all those Mac Pros?
That's truly impressive! I'd buy a Mac Pro, but I can't justify the cost of getting one... yet.
I assumed so.As soon as I catch wind of a new mac pro coming out I sell my current one on ebay. I ALWAYS get exactly what I paid for it.
As soon as I catch wind of a new mac pro coming out I sell my current one on ebay. I ALWAYS get exactly what I paid for it.
How do you manage to get 100% resale price? I'd love to know if you have any tips!
Congrats MacEnforcer. I'm having to wait about two more weeks for my 3.2GHz octo to arrive. Looks like that EyetV export is going to be a wonderful time killer @ 3.2GHz. Was that iPod compatible 2 pass H.264 640x360 from HD originals or what? Have you given Handbrake 0.9.1 a shot yet? Any Toast tests yet? ElGato claims Toast 8 will use all 8 cores.Oh and another thing. The whole time it was encoding the fans never increased in speed. It is really remarkable.
... yes, but is it hip?
So I run a simple benchmark on every mac I get. I record a show with EyeTV. I record 1:01hr and then encode it to ipod at the highest settings. Here are the results for my mac pros.
- 4 core 2.66ghz old mac prow/6gb ram: 1:07:37 hrs
- 8 core 3ghz old mac pro w/9gb ram: 0:46:52 hrs
- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs
That is freakin umbelievable. I can't wait to test it when my other 8gb of ram gets here. I think its safe to say that the new 3ghz octo is twice as fast at the last version. WOW!
Oh, and just in case you are curious. My mac mini with the elgato Turbo .264 got 1:20:17 hrs.
The one conclusion I can draw from your post: Yay mac mini!!!
Still blows my mind. The best part about it is, it's only got 2GB RAM.
Well I for one would like to thank you for these posts. I purchased the 3.2 with 8800GT, Raid Card, 4 1-TB drives and 16 GB of RAM from OWC. For kicks I bought the EyeTV Hybrid Stick with QAM. Already have Toast 8 and use it to pull anything I record from my TIVO. Man, this is going to be fun....
... yes, but is it hip?
Well I got the musical reference. Outstanding!!!![]()
- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs
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And how much faster will this be with a Mac Pro HW RAID card?
Perhaps faster than a 3.2ghz machine.
End the I/O bottleneck....
10-15 days 'til I get my 3.2GHz with the RAID card + 32GB of RAM + four 1TB drives. Will Raid 5 the three beyond the #1 boot drive. Then I'll let you know how fast the ultimate configuration is.- 8 core 2.8ghz New mac pro w/2gb ram: 0:27:15 hrs
And how much faster will this be with a Mac Pro HW RAID card?
Perhaps faster than a 3.2ghz machine.
End the I/O bottleneck....
These new Mac Pros are the best computers in the world.![]()