new Mac Pro !!!

[Shawn Erickson]

On Jan 8, 2008 1:03 PM, R.L. Grigg <newslists at autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote:
> How is going from 3.0GHz to 3.2GHz "up to 2x faster"?
> Basically same specs, same case,... a bit underwhelming...

It has a newer chipset that better supports 8-cores, has better FSB
bandwidth, PCIe v2.0, etc.

New Mac Pro chipset:
<http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/5400/index.htm> (at least I
believe it using that)
Old Mac Pro chipset: <http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/5000x/index.htm>

Also the processors are 45nm based (more power efficient _and_ higher
performance), have larger L2 caches, SSE4, etc.

-Shawn