<div dir="ltr">If you take the Mac part out of the equation there is lots of information out there on the individual Intel CPU's & their performance. Bill S. summed it up well above with it depending on what multi-threading software you may run but with individual core OC'ing (I hate saying Turbo as there is no button on the case for it :) the single core performance hit is not that bad. As for disks I don't think you can put a single 3.5 drive it. I know that the base comes with a SSD and a even speedier 256GB PCIe flash option is available. All other storage is external. <div>
<br></div><div>Im not a Apple person at all but I have been following the story of the new Mac Pro. If you haven't seen it you should take a look on their site as its kinda neat. It not for me (cost vs performance & upgrade path) but I love to see new hardware especially something different then the same old box. </div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Bill Schwanitz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bilsch@bilsch.org" target="_blank">bilsch@bilsch.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Oct 31, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Rick Hornsby <<a href="mailto:richardjhornsby@gmail.com">richardjhornsby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Curious if anyone can shed some light on the difference between these configurations, all other things being equal, for a system with Intel Xeon "E5" processors:<br>
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> 3.7GHz quad core<br>
> 3.5GHz 6-core<br>
> 3.0GHz 8-core<br>
> 2.7GHz 12-core<br>
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</div>It really depends on what kind of applications you are running. Heavily multi-threaded applications will benefit from a larger number of cores but single-threaded applications will suffer in performance as the individual core is less powerful.<br>
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>From the list above if you want the best balance, go with the 6-core chip(s). Personally, I’d rather have a lot of ram than a lot of cores. That and better disks - ssd if you can afford it. Though once you go to ssd you won’t ever go back to spindals!<br>
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