I hear you Daniel. I think my “screamer” comment was a little misleading. I understood that this system was not going to be a juggernaut in terms of performance, I just expected more for all the money that was spent. Does that make sense?
I knew going into this that the Xeon quad was nowhere near as fast as the top core i7 processors. My primary goal with this system was stability and it has been pretty solid in that regard. I just couldn’t see spending $10k on an top of the line 8 or 12 core Mac Pro system.
Also, if I pull the Radeon card I lose one of my cinema displays since the Quadro only has one display port. As I understand it there are DVI to display port adapters but many people are not happy with them.