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I don't know how he does it, but Anand has gotten his hands on a pair of Clovertown CPUs (Core 2 Quad) and a Mac Pro desktop. As you can imagine, insane amounts of geeky goodness ensued.

Later this year Intel will be introducing pin compatible upgrades to its Core 2 and Xeon lines, except instead of two cores these processors will feature four. Codenamed Kenstfield (Core 2) and Clovertown (Xeon), Intel's new quad-core processors will dramatically increase the amount of processing power you can have in a single system. Given that the Mac Pro features two LGA-771 sockets, you could theoretically drop two Clovertown processors in there and you'd have an 8-core Mac Pro.

The focus of the article is actually the new Mac Pro, but I skipped all that and went straight for the quad-core stuff first. Now I guess I should read the other 14 pages, huh?

Jizzler Multi-Core Zealot Posts: 2066 Joined: 2000-10-28

#39232 Posted on: 09/12/2006 09:53 PM Nice.

terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07

#39233 Posted on: 09/12/2006 11:26 PM clovertown looks like it will be a great and easy upgrade for current macpro users because it will just drop in to the current sockets. 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

proffesso Winner of the Internet Posts: 1532 Joined: 2001-06-25

#39234 Posted on: 09/13/2006 11:14 AM well fuck, there goes the credit card. just the news I was hoping for! chasing tokyo girls

eighteen_psi Now with more Gallatin! Posts: 152 Joined: 2003-05-01

#39245 Posted on: 09/14/2006 07:42 AM Originally posted by proffesso: well fuck, there goes the credit card. just the news I was hoping for! Seriously - I'm all out of reasons to hold off, other than the complete destruction of my finances. Dual 3.2 Gallatin, 4GB, Supermicro X5DA8 Dual 2400MP, 2.5GB, MSI K7D Master Quad 550/2MB, 2GB, Compaq 6400R Single 1.42 G4, 1GB, Apple Mac Mini ...among others, all folding. 25GHz+

AniMill Render Gardener Posts: 86 Joined: 2001-06-09

#39246 Posted on: 09/14/2006 02:32 PM For years I had 3 reasons why I wouldn't buy a MAC: my primary application only runs on DOS/Windows (3DS MAX), I could build my machines cheaper than any MAC or many PCs of the time, and (emotionally, not intellectuality) I wanted to prove to the #$!@ing MACheads that I could do anything they could do faster and cheaper (and usually at equal to better quality). Now I find myself maturing (only a little) and wishing that MAX ran native under a OSX, not requiring flipping to re-start. I'd likely switch over if two options existed: Autodesk made MAX for MACs (sounds funny), and that I could still use my PC renderfarm to do all my final 2D and 3D rendering without having to replace all my machines. The MAC Pro looks wonderful (though I'll bet I can build a PC version cheaper) and should be a complete success. I'm happy Apple has returned from the brink and should give the PC world a real reason to switch. Curtis Sponsler Creative Director | President - AniMill Offices in Ocoee,FL & Burbank, CA

daniel178 Registered User Posts: 359 Joined: 2001-01-10

#39262 Posted on: 09/16/2006 01:42 AM I like running 3ds max on my PC just fine

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