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by wavelength
Thu Nov 04, 2010 5:47 am
Forum: MOTU Hardware & MacOS
Topic: Quad Core vs 8 Core vs ?
Replies: 18
Views: 3208

Re: Quad Core vs 8 Core vs ?

Gang, Here is the real point in the review of the 12 Core unit from MacWorld: As shown in our "Fastest Macs money can buy" report, the 12-core Mac Pro was not the overall speed king in our tests. It was outperformed by a $3699 built-to-order (BTO) Mac Pro with a 3.33GHz 6-core Xeon Westmer...
by wavelength
Wed Nov 03, 2010 8:19 am
Forum: MOTU Hardware & MacOS
Topic: Quad Core vs 8 Core vs ?
Replies: 18
Views: 3208

Re: Quad Core vs 8 Core vs ?

Gang, 2.40 gHz x 8 = 19.20 ghz Price: $3499 First you cannot just do math to determine this. There is a lot more going on here. Local cache, program architecture etc... Remember each core still uses a the same chunk of memory as the other cores in that processor. So when one is accessing the ram the...
by wavelength
Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:42 pm
Forum: MOTU Hardware & MacOS
Topic: Quad Core vs 8 Core vs ?
Replies: 18
Views: 3208

Re: Quad Core vs 8 Core vs ?

Gang, Hey I'm this guy .... audiophile hardware / software creator friend . The deal is that the Quad Core is typically running much faster than the standard 2.4GHz 8 Core unit off the shelf. This was verified by MacWorld. The question Rob poses is the number of cores going to be more beneficial to ...