Prepare for ludicrous speed: Ars reviews the 8-core Mac Pro

[nanofrog]

Ram prices will continue to drop, and in fact, now that all the manufacturers can sell the Xeon 55XX series chips, I expect to see the economies of scale to help us with the prices. People are running DDR3 1066 ECC registered which seems to work fine (other than it appears to run hotter, requiring heat spreaders). I suspect a slight hit in latency, but nothing that will really be noticed. I have seen 4gb ecc registered dimms go for as cheap as $200 each. I think what that barrier is broken and we see prices in the $100-$150, many people will upgrade to 4GB configs (I am looking at 24GB for my dual proc. setup).

Peace,
Noushy

If you have the time to spare, waiting for prices to fall is nice. Unfortunately, some users may not have that luxury. Particularly if their income is derived from their computer. Then again, there's the argument that if they make money with it, it shouldn't be a problem. //shrugs

 

[VirtualRain]

Ram prices will continue to drop, and in fact, now that all the manufacturers can sell the Xeon 55XX series chips, I expect to see the economies of scale to help us with the prices. People are running DDR3 1066 ECC registered which seems to work fine (other than it appears to run hotter, requiring heat spreaders). I suspect a slight hit in latency, but nothing that will really be noticed. I have seen 4gb ecc registered dimms go for as cheap as $200 each. I think what that barrier is broken and we see prices in the $100-$150, many people will upgrade to 4GB configs (I am looking at 24GB for my dual proc. setup).

Peace,
Noushy

Who's running 4GB registered DIMMS in a 2009 MP? Can you paste some links in here?

 

[adrianr]

Nevertheless, Photoshop—the old system seller—is not selling these systems.

I've no idea why it sold the old one. Unless you needed the RAM expandability. He should have thrown in some speed comparisons with any 4-core machine too. The times would have been little different again.

Still, looks like people are beggining to see sense!