JHoagland opened this issue on Feb 18, 2007 · 126 posts
svdl posted Tue, 20 February 2007 at 1:14 PM
The Dual Xeon Core 2 Duo (fastest Mac Pro) is very, very fast indeed. And very, very expensive. I wonder how it would fare head to head against a QX6700.
My current "dream PC" is a QX6700, Intel BadAxe2 mainboard, 8 GB DDR2-667, nVidia 8800GTX. Costs about € 3800 including XP Pro 64bit and VAT.
The fastest MacPro with 8 GB DDR2-667 (and a slower graphics card!) costs about € 6000 including VAT.
Dutch prices.
I expect the performances to be similar. The Mac might be a tad faster, but certainly not by 50%.
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