Quad core system

[SteveC]

I see Armari have released the first quad core cpu system, The Magnetar
QS Quad core, at a price of £1599.00 + vat. Here's a link to the digit
write up about it.

http://www.digitmag.co.uk/reviews/in...l&ReviewID=686

I'm in the market for a new workstation, what do you guys think to this,
any good or wait for dual quad cores

They're saying it's comparible with the dual xeon 5150 systems.

steve

[joconnell]

Yikes.

I'm getting a new machine soon too and I can't find anything better value than a mac pro at the moment - I'd have to add on a better gfx card (only something like a geforce 7950gx2 admittedly) but to buy the equivalent spec in a dell is nearly €1500 more for no reason - The only thing I don't like is that you do need to use bootcamp from osx to get windows xp up since xp's own boot loader can't support the new bios in the mac - vista will solve this problem and a dell pc uses an xp compatible bios so that's the only advantage.

[jujubee]

Official release date for the new Quads was listed as November 11th with high end quads priced at about $1,000. Reviews from Toms Hardware have been great - that's if you can trust Tom's not to take kickbacks like they once got caught doing...