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Title: Almost overnight
Post by: BaldEagl on March 01, 2008, 02:41:32 AM

There are motherboards with 2 or 3x PCIe x16 2.0 slots in the $150 price range to take advantage of those new GPU's (a drop of ~$100).

Title: Almost overnight
Post by: alskahawk on March 01, 2008, 05:53:52 AM

Apple is introducing a new computer with 8 cores. 2-3.2MHz 45nm on one system. Starting price $2799

Title: Almost overnight
Post by: Getback on March 01, 2008, 10:11:40 AM

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Originally posted by alskahawk
Apple is introducing a new computer with 8 cores. 2-3.2MHz 45nm on one system. Starting price $2799

And that will take advantage of What Software???:lol

Title: Re: Almost overnight
Post by: Krusty on March 01, 2008, 01:28:51 PM

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Originally posted by BaldEagl
There are motherboards with 2 or 3x PCIe x16 2.0 slots in the $150 price range to take advantage of those new GPU's (a drop of ~$100).

I've been checking prices on these. The $150 are pretty damn sad. I'm loathe to get one. I'd go instead for the $210-ish range for a 2.0 x16 mobo. If/when I get a tax refund I'm thinking of doing that.

Reviews on newegg are not so good for the "cheap-o" 2.0 x16 boards. So far not many 2.0 x16 boards have just the 1 PCIe slot. I'm not planning on SLI ever, so I wonder if it's cheaper to have a board with just the 1 slot? Oh well.

Title: Almost overnight
Post by: alskahawk on March 01, 2008, 01:52:54 PM

Ya I would wait for the reviews on any new equipment.


 Comon Krusty come to the darkside of SLI. The force is strong here. :)

SLI test; AMD x2 3.2 Ghz
              2 GB Ram Kingston
              2-8800GTX
              1 150GB Raptor HD

  FRS 235-329  with SLI (2-8800GTX)
  FRS 59-63      without SLI  (1-8800GTX)

 Getback; I think that will be using Leopard OS MAC. but other than that I don't know.

Title: Almost overnight
Post by: Skuzzy on March 02, 2008, 07:15:22 AM

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Originally posted by Getback
And that will take advantage of What Software???:lol

Actually, Apple's OS is far more adept at using multiple CPU's than Windows is, regardless of the application.  One of the advantages of starting with UNIX as a base OS.

Title: Almost overnight
Post by: Getback on March 03, 2008, 12:04:14 AM

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
Actually, Apple's OS is far more adept at using multiple CPU's than Windows is, regardless of the application.  One of the advantages of starting with UNIX as a base OS.

Good info Skuzzy, I guess my thinking is narrowed to MS PCs. I always wonder why Apple does not make their software available to PCs.

Title: Almost overnight
Post by: Skuzzy on March 03, 2008, 05:59:21 AM

It could happen, if they wanted it to.  The only thing holding Apple back us the lack of applcation support, as compared to Windows.  They would be betting the company on something very risky.