Last Month the Japanese try to retrive this mod a little bit more. They played in the at 2pm CET. At the moment the gametracker,com Server Monitorring is off. Hope soon they turn it on. The ranking seems to work.
Registered Member #334 Joined: [ 20:26 ] [ 27 May 2004 ]
8 cores would be wow for a normal user, im NOT impressed, the Motherboard is a SERVER motherboard, and so are the processors. Those processors fit macs quite well tho as they are made for stability and not mainly performance, the server motherboard is why it has the ability to use 32 gigs of ram.
I am not saying that it gives poor performance, because it doesn't. I am saying that it is price pressing and unnecessary for a regular user who wants a performance computer to buy a server processor powered mac. a good regular user mac for that price could ship with awesome x38 chipset motherboards or why not even an nvidia 700 series mobo with tripple graphics card setup availability, with cards in all slots, and then a core2 extreme instead of those server processors would give better performance for games, as not many if any public released games utilize more than 4 cores, which makes 8 cores pointless for games.
mac pro is NOT in any way a gaming machine, its a VERY qualified MEDIA machine, awesome for rendering, unzipping stuff and general mass calculations and multi-multi threading.
Twisted, i quote myself "no no you cant have the ability to open up a mac and replace anything." - what i ment was that you cannot change each and every part of the mac, you can replace and change stuff but you are limited.
Sure, nice default buildup inside the mac pros but theres still issues if you like to modify the intestines, such as airflow and room. The macs have nice cablage settings for everything to be simple but for a fairly advanced computer builder who has bough a quite nice chassi, this is no big deal to counter as you do the cablage your own customized way. so the macs default buildup is no good defense in my opinion.
Guess what? theres a million people just like you who owns a mac that looks EXACTLY the same, which makes it quite much... not unique and cool, there is no computer on this earth with the exact same hardware and looks as mine, a computer IS more personal than a mac.
And jabbering about how damn good iTunes is? i dont give a damn if they ported iTunes for the PC, i tested it and i did not like it. I am not interested in the iTunes store, if i want an mp3 file ill download it, if an Mp3 is good enough, i buy the retail CD that is worth the price. my X-Fi card with awesome even cm exact volume adjustments for how far away each and every one of your speakers are from you, in combination with Winamp which has all i need, libraries quick listings, search functions, OU's, the equalizer that i dont use etc, i do not need anything else, so what is it that makes iTunes superior?
and your still saying how good it works, sure it works well and you need not know much to keep it that way. but if you know how to handle your computer in a good way i bet that my windows xp works JUST as good or better than your flashy OSX, there are patches for default theme change for windows so theres no performance hunch compared to the OSX's looks/performance.
if you say the pc in general has a worse inside build than the mac then you have not owned a good screwless computer chassi, if you build it carefully and well planned, there is supposed to be no way that you can say the build is not perfect for later modifications. and whats with the HDD slides that is so good? my hdd cables are not visible either, they go up under a metalplate and right into the hdd on one side and right into the motherboard on the other, and yes, they do have slides.
why in the world would macs ship "performance" iMacs with shitty 2600pro graphics cards for highres 24" screens as default? that is NOT performance, at least not if you really want to play a game in that full resolution.
i can promise you, cochrane, that if you have a full chassi mac, i bet you my machine is more quiet, dont blaim computers for being "noisy" as it's up to the user to make it quiet, thats why we buy good chassies and cooling sollutions with inner plate paddings and stuff like that, to make the noise drop.
My computer looks good, does barely sound, and is better than your mac, for a lower price than if you buy a mac for the same price that i put my computer together with.