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    Overclocked the MacPro, but how to test it?

    Ok, so I took my MacPro from 3.0 to 3.3 and wanted to see the difference, I ran Geekbench in 64bit any my score hovered between 6100 and 6200, same as before the over clock. Any one have any idea why? Is there a better bench for the Mac, or even a 3D type bench like 3DMark?
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    Quake IV frame rates.. paging the gammer crowd..

    So even though I'm not much into gaming, I went and installed Quake IV with the SMP (multi CPU) patch to see what kind of performance I can get from this system. I know that Mac games are poorly optimized, and little time/money is spent on the ports for obvious commercial reasons, but I...
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    My Mac Pro came yesterday..

    I spent the best part of yesterday setting it up with the additional drives, memory, and transferring data off of a laptop and a desktop.. all went more or less trouble free. Setting up the RAID was too easy, and the performance of the RAID Array is awesome. The only bench mark I've run so...
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    New SATA drives using jumpers??

    Over the next month, parts of the MacPro order I just did will start to come in. Today, I got 3 hard drives (a 74GB Raptor, and 2 Deskstar 500GB) that I plan to put into the MacPro. The computer will itself ship with a 500GB in bay 1, and that is going to also contain the OS.. My goal is...
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    Quadro 4500FX or ATI X1900XT?

    I've got a deceision to make.. Money being basically no object in this, as I'm more concerned with overall performance.. Shall I switch my order on my MacPro from the X1900XT 512MB to a Quadro if all I am concerned with is performance in both games, and other apps that use OPEN GL such as...
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    Anand's review of the Mac Pro

    http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2816 Very impressive... can't wait!
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    5 weeks and counting.... my New Pac pro!

    Well, I never intended to upgrade my Dual G5 only two years after buying it, but the specs on this new Pro were to darn tempting. See my signature for the specs.. but it's going to be a well equipped machine when it gets here. I'll set up a Window XP drive on one drive, and use the other two...