For you MAC ppl

[Esoteric]

Ok i need a mac prefer a 8 core like in the vid you must see.

I need more or less the same mac as he has, so my question how much costs this new or how new is that 8 core so maybe i can buy it 2nd hand.

anyway this is the vid and he tells you why i need that :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIveoBxnQZY

[Dust]

He has a 3GHz Xeon Penry, one model above mine. It's an older model, newer Mac Pros have been released this spring. (The new ones are quite fast, faster than the old ones obviously)

Here's a benchmark (only limited relevance):
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/03/14/upd ... internals/


The mac pros are quite (as in _very_) expensive, especially if you want to buy lots of memory from apple. Don't do that. Buy as little RAM as you can and order upgrades somewhere else.

[Gianna]

Prices from the US:

$3300 basic macpro:
2 x 2.26GHz Quad Xeon ( -> 8 cores )
6GB Ram
1 x 640GB SATA HDD
GeForce GT 120 512MB
One optical drive
No Monitor

$18046 WTF macpro:
2 x 2.93GHz Quad Xeon
32GB Ram
Raid with 4 x 1TB HDDs
4 x GeForce GT 120 512MB
Two optical drives
Two 30" Apple Cinema Displays with adapter
Wireless key/mouse
WiFi add-in

So you are looking at a price span of $15000 in which you can move freely.

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/s ... ly/mac_pro

I really love macs, but the pricing of their lock-in hardware is BLEEP ridiculous.

--Alex

[Dust]

Don't buy memory directly from apple (RAM/HardDisk), those are usually massively overpriced despite being standard hardware.

[Dust]

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/20 ... review.ars

[Esoteric]

Here is an example of what we were talking about dust, as in using more then 1 system.

Now i think he used the MAC as HOST and a normal PC win WIN as slave.
This might come in handy as i allready was on my max on my PC and prolly can use a 2nd system to make the sound bigger and better :p


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Bf10rDOlg

[Esoteric]

BTW how stable is a hackintosh ??

[Dust]

I doubt it's as stable as a real macintosh, since the drivers in OS X are made specifically for macs, and computers with other hardware might not work as well. But to be honest, I've never really looked at the forums.

[Esoteric]

well as far as my reading goes so far is that when mac went to intel cpu's its been possible to hack them, and i read some very nice posts of ppl who tried it and still using it :p

makes me wonder if you build a 16 core PC and then run osx86 on it :p sadly i can only find one MB with 4 cpu slots on it and its for AMD

http://www.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=8 ... ifications

imagine if you have that in pentium version and use 4 x quad core Intel Xeon X5570 'Nehalem' on it with 16gig mem

make a hackintosh on that and i believe you beat a mac pro

ah well i gonna try install the hackintosh on a external HD and look for my self prolly need to buy a new MB and CPU for that :p but that will only cost me a few bucks


I was checking if one wants to build a 8 core PC, now i dont know much about hardware and BLEEP cause i see some sort the same CPU's with prices from 200 to 1000 so i dunno whats the diffrence, but if i want to build a 8 core pc i only need to buy.

MB: ASUS Z8NA-D6 - 270,- euro
CPU: 2x Intel Xeon X5560 2.8Ghz - 240,- x 2 = 480,- euro
Mem: Kingston ValueRam 12GB DDR3-1066 CL7 ECC Registered triple kit 310,- euro

total of 1060,- euro as all the other stuff i allready own saves me atleast 2200 euro vs the Mac Pro

and it will look like this:

[Ixora]

CPU: 2x Intel Xeon X5560 2.8Ghz - 240,- x 2 = 480,- euro

Are you sure one Intel Xeon X5560 is 240 Euros only ? I have an Corei7 2.66GHz and I got it last year for about that price. Surely an Xeon should be much more expensive since it is new on the market and it is Intel's Xeon line, which is overpriced by default.

[Dust]

http://processorfinder.intel.com/ is quite comprehensive. I have two E5462. They should be quite cheap by now I think.

You have to check if the CPUs support multi core use. Also, not all motherboards support all of them. And of course, Mac OS X only supports Intel and IBM CPUs properly.

[Esoteric]

Yeah, i got it working !!!

Got 10.5.6 working like a charm (atleast as far as i used it)

Now i need to learn how that crap works hehe but it is working of my PC

[Dust]

10.5.7 came out three days ago :P

[MindyMcfly]

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/a ... olutionary

Interesting how you'd play wow on this.

[Esoteric]

that is old news Mindy and like i said to dust its crap :p

And dusty, im just glad it works now ï dont need the newest i just need a good running one