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Need comparison advice, dual vs quad mac pro
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<blockquote data-quote="Yackedy Sacks" data-source="post: 998232" data-attributes="member: 142126"><p>you'd probably get more performance boost out of a higher clock speed quad-core (i.e. the new nehalem xeons) than a slower 8-core. a single user is not going to easily hit all 8 cores. i have the 2x 2.66ghz dual-core mac pro (woodcrest xeons) and i hardly get past 20% cpu usage.</p><p></p><p>i was at the apple store a week ago, and the top-of-the-line mac pro is the clocked quad-core. 2nd best is the 8-core at a slower clock. it felt good that after almost 3 years, the slower quad-core is still 3rd best in the store <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yackedy Sacks, post: 998232, member: 142126"] you'd probably get more performance boost out of a higher clock speed quad-core (i.e. the new nehalem xeons) than a slower 8-core. a single user is not going to easily hit all 8 cores. i have the 2x 2.66ghz dual-core mac pro (woodcrest xeons) and i hardly get past 20% cpu usage. i was at the apple store a week ago, and the top-of-the-line mac pro is the clocked quad-core. 2nd best is the 8-core at a slower clock. it felt good that after almost 3 years, the slower quad-core is still 3rd best in the store :D [/QUOTE]
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