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I wanne get a new computer. Which would be the fastest? Forget about price.
APPLE MAC PRO 2.66 or The Allenstein "Quadzilla" Machine which consists of the following:
CHENMING CMUI-601AECB-U Charcoal Black 1.0mm SECC Server Computer Case 55.99
ASUS K8N-DL Dual Socket 940 NVIDIA nForce4 Professional Extended ATX Server Motherboard 177.99
AMD Dual-Core Opteron 270 Italy 1000MHz HT 2 x 1MB L2 Cache Socket 940 Processor - Retail 471.99 x 2 = 943.98
CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM ECC Registered DDR 400 (PC 3200) Dual Channel Kit System Memory = 297.00
ATI Radeon X700 256Mb DDR 16X Dual Video Card 129.99
Western Digital 80GB 7200RPM 8MB CACHE Hard Drives 58.00 x 2 = 116.00
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All this info is in the
Quadzilla thread.
Even the smallest Quad Opteron has more power than most guys will use. If you're going to take the Opteron route, I strongly suggest the Tyan Quad as it gives us slightly more performance over the Asus Quad.
A Quad Opteron 285 and MacIntel Xeon 2.6 have very similar results. The benchmark Dverb test on the Xeon 2.6 gives us 190 Dverbs. We are still waiting for the benchmark on the first Opteron 285.
The smallest and cheapest Quad Opteron 265 will give you a Dverb benchmark of 134 Dverbs. More CPU plug-in power than most will ever use.
The Quad Opterons are solid, stable and cheap to build now.
The Xeon Quads are reported to be solid, stable and run VERY quiet compared to the Opterons. But you wont have the plug-in selection at this time if you are going to use the MacIntel with OSX until everyone ports over to universal binary. But...you can also run XP on the MacIntel.
Also, with the current Xeon quad, you will be able to put in the new 4-core single CPUs when available. This will also be the same with the Opterons if you have a board with the new slot, hence we will have some very powerful 8-core systems very soon.
Nowadays it comes down to personal preference and your budget of which Quad you go with.
What you shouldnt be looking for is the "fastest" Quad, but a rock solid "stable" Quad. Stability should come first.
Shane