Comment Motherboard Tech (Score 3, Informative) 1595
It's interesting that many people are critical of the benchmark results Apple trumpets. Certainly there are many that can address that topic. Depreciating the numbers, however, doesn't address the more interesting topic, which is:
How do you like the rest of the motherboard?
1 Gig frontside bus X2, PCI-X X3, Serial ATA X2 with separate channels for each drive, USB 2.0/FW 800 & 400, AGP 8X, DMA for every I/O function without bandwidth contention, etc.
Seems to me this may be the most advanced motherboard ever put in any desktop, affordable computer.
And even if you don't believe the SPEC stuff, how about the software demos? Just lies, I suppose.
If y'all had taken the system diagram Apple is showing and substituted 2 Pentium 4's or 2 XEONs for the 2 970's, it would be touted as an Alienware-buster and proof that Wintel is King.
Better check your bubbles for bursting.
How do you like the rest of the motherboard?
1 Gig frontside bus X2, PCI-X X3, Serial ATA X2 with separate channels for each drive, USB 2.0/FW 800 & 400, AGP 8X, DMA for every I/O function without bandwidth contention, etc.
Seems to me this may be the most advanced motherboard ever put in any desktop, affordable computer.
And even if you don't believe the SPEC stuff, how about the software demos? Just lies, I suppose.
If y'all had taken the system diagram Apple is showing and substituted 2 Pentium 4's or 2 XEONs for the 2 970's, it would be touted as an Alienware-buster and proof that Wintel is King.
Better check your bubbles for bursting.
