Hex core time two = 12 physical cores and 24 threads.

[polymerase]

Your main page feed of ZDnet catches me right before I pull the trigger on another MacPro Tower. I was going to get the 2xquad but zdnet says Apple might have 2hex on Tuesday. I think I will wait.

2x6 cores is 12 which can run 24 threads. I got a program that needs those 24 threads. And it runs at 3.3 Ghz? This could be a significant boost in speed. 1.46 X in speed plus half again more cores comes to 2.2 times faster than my twenty minute iteration which gets it to nine minutes. And my over two day crunch goes down to one day. I know I am dreaming if my software can eek out that increase but more is always better. Just got back from an egyptian tomb and the hieroglyphics said,"more is more". Putting sixty walking sticks in the tomb was better for the dead person than 30 walking sticks. More is more. But not really better, just more. Same hieroglyphic.

One hopes you can get more than 8 times 4GB of memory into it.

Thanks for the feed, hope the rumor is true.

[Celandine]

(03-11-2010 10:53 AM)polymerase Wrote:  Your main page feed of ZDnet catches me right before I pull the trigger on another MacPro Tower. I was going to get the 2xquad but zdnet says Apple might have 2hex on Tuesday. I think I will wait.

2x6 cores is 12 which can run 24 threads. I got a program that needs those 24 threads. And it runs at 3.3 Ghz? This could be a significant boost in speed. 1.46 X in speed plus half again more cores comes to 2.2 times faster than my twenty minute iteration which gets it to nine minutes. And my over two day crunch goes down to one day. I know I am dreaming if my software can eek out that increase but more is always better. Just got back from an egyptian tomb and the hieroglyphics said,"more is more". Putting sixty walking sticks in the tomb was better for the dead person than 30 walking sticks. More is more. But not really better, just more. Same hieroglyphic.

One hopes you can get more than 8 times 4GB of memory into it.

Thanks for the feed, hope the rumor is true.

Ken I get "dibbs" on yer "OLD" Tower?
I'm still limping around on my 2002 G4 800
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