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Old 11-16-2011, 11:30 PM
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Default Nehalem 8 core 2.93 or Westmere 3.33
Due to been sent the wrong Mac (2.26) after paying for a 2.6 I have been offered by apology the offer to buy at a great price a new Westmere 6 core 3.33 with 16 gb or used 8 core nehalem 2.93 with 32gb. If you could pick which machine what would you go for ? - I'm still undecided whether to go HDX or Native with PT10 as I'm currently HD3..... Any ideas ? Anyone using any of these machines ?
The Westmere will cost about £400 more ($700)
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Old 11-17-2011, 06:56 AM
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Anyone ? Advice ?
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Old 11-17-2011, 10:11 AM
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Default Re: Nehalem 8 core 2.93 or Westmere 3.33
Get the Nehalem:

http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/mac-benchmarks/
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Old 11-17-2011, 12:00 PM
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I dare to disagree. PT know better how to use 6 fast cores (you may even want to tell it to use only 4 but up to 99%) than 8 slower cores. Additionally the Westmere is better at overclocking when the CPU is not overly busy.

My only concern would be that the 1 Socket machine does not accept the same mount of RAM (but still way enough).
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Old 11-17-2011, 12:03 PM
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BTW to get maximum memory speeds both machines need 3 or 6 slots filled (and not 4 or 8) with identical RAM. Thus 12/24/48GB is ideal and not 16 or 32GB!
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Old 11-17-2011, 12:20 PM
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I think I need to decide whether I'm going with HDX or HD Native - Both machines I reckon are great for HDX but I'm starting to think the WESTMERE 3.33 is the best machine for Native due to the faster Ram and faster processor per core ....
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Old 11-17-2011, 12:50 PM
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I think I need to decide whether I'm going with HDX or HD Native - Both machines I reckon are great for HDX but I'm starting to think the WESTMERE 3.33 is the best machine for Native due to the faster Ram and faster processor per core ....
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I'd definitively agree!
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I'd definitively agree!
I have Westmere running HD Native Card. It smokes my HD3Accel on G5 like a kitty.
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Old 11-17-2011, 02:24 PM
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I'm so tempted with the Westmere - Does anyone here know of anyone using an 8 core Nehalem with PT Native and results ? I've the 2.93......
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Westmere- it is more current and will be supported further into the future.
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