[Mitchji]

Hi,

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Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[MPE] “Taht remain to be seen. “

Hi,

I would not be surprised if the benchmarks Apple posted for the quad are biased but unless they are totally and completely bogus it does not remain to be seen.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[gregg brent] “Question: Any opinion as to better to buy tried and tested Dual 2ghz G5 for under 2grand with upgraded Graphics card (ATI or Nvidia…want to play with Motion) OR jump in and buy one of the ‘stepchild’ 2.3 dual core which is untried??”

Hi,

The Dual Core 2.3 will perform a little better (maybe 10 or 15 percent) so I think the main factors are price and graphics card (particularly for motion).

RAM costs a little less for the Dual Core Models.

Another issue is PCI-E vs PCI-X. If you have existing PCI-X cards you want to use or if you need a card that is not currently available as PCI-E then you need the older model. On the other hand if you are going to be buying cards and can wait a while you would be better off getting a Dual Core model because the cards will be less likely to become obsolete when you upgrade your Powermac.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Bryan Shelton] “Since none of the Apple apps support multi-threading at this point, dual core vs. single core is a moot point unless you are building a test machine for the future.”

Hi.

This is NOT correct. How do you think they take advantage of Dual Processors on the previous Dual Processor models?

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[mpe] “Also, codes must be written to take advantage of the cores – meaning the application must support more ‘threads.’ If not, the extra horses will remain in the stable.”

Hi,

Most of the applications that are important to us (FCP for example) already support multiple processors. Unless the programmers intentionly cripled their code programs that support dual processors will also support 4.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Walter Biscardi] “Personally, I would look at the current crop of G5’s as they are sure to take a major price drop and you have the most Capture Card options for those machines. “

Hi,

On the other hand if you purchase a PCI-X capture card for the older model it is much more likely to become obsolete the next time you upgrade your Mac.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

https://www.barefeats.com/radx800.html

“At first glance, it appears the X800 XT Mac Edition should give you equal or better performance than GeForce 6800 Ultra for an aftermarket price equal to the GeForce 6800 GT — plus it only uses one slot. But let’s look at real world performance.”

https://www.barefeats.com/rad9650.html

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

These benchmarks don’t mean as much as tests using actual applications but they give some idea:
https://media.99mac.se/g5_dualcore/

Some excerpts:
As you can see the 2.3 GHz Dual Core machine is marginally faster than a water-cooled 2.5GHz Dual G5 with a souped-up graphics card. The largest difference is in memory performance, not in the actual processors according to our tests with Xbench. We want to point out that this testing method isn’t completely failsafe but should mostly be seen as a hint of the new machine’s performance.

Performance-wise, one Dual Core processor doesn’t make for a large difference compared to two old G5 processors. We predict that the new Quad 2.5GHz Powermac will make for a performance increase of 70% or more.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

Hi,

One more issue is PCI-express. This is a much better technology than the PCI-X on the older G5’s so in that way for some users it will be a plus. On the other hand if you have some expensive PCI-X cards that won’t work in the new machines or you need a card that currently is only available as a PCI-X card its a problem.

Best Wishes,

Mitch

[Mitchji]

[Post Office Video] ” I would like to take advantage of the faster rendering and better video card of the quad mac after it ships (and has proven to be reliable) but am not willing to throw away $12,000 of fast and reliable SCSI storage to do so. “

Hi,

When they ar shipping and have proven to be reliable there will probably be some supported SCSI cards.

Best Wishes,

Mitch