New Mac Pro!!
October 11, 2006I got a new Mac Pro dual 3ghz. I actually got it a while ago, but have been too busy to blog recently.
It's much faster than my old dual 2.5 G5. Not mind blowingly fast, but it's a huge improvement. Doing a full build on my old dual G5 with a dual 1.25 G4 set up as a distributed build machine took around 50 minutes. Now it takes about 15 minutes. I'm doing a lot less waiting and able to write more code.
The new Mac Pro is also much much quieter. The old G5 fans drove me nuts. Every time I hit "build" in XCode the fans would wind up like it was struggling to do the work. It was kind of stressful. I felt like I was hurting it every time I compiled.
I also love the new SATA drives. It's super easy to add additional hard disks. No jumpers to mess with, just pop it in and boot up.
Here's my current setup:
Dual Mac Pro 3ghz
3gb RAM
30" Cinema
23" Cinema
Wireless Keyboard and mouse
3 internal drives. 2 250s and a 160 SATA
The 30" is new. It makes a big difference, but I still wish I had 2 30" monitors. Maybe next year I'll upgrade my 23" to a 30".
Posted by sgehrman at October 11, 2006 4:44 PMComments
Er... you mean a quad 3.0?
Post a pic of your setup. I'd like to see all that ;)
You should use 4 (or 8) ram module of the same size, as it's faster cause it combines the bandwith of all the 4 ram modules.
But I think a raptor 10k rpm HD will help a lot also
on those machines the HD is the bottleneck
BTW, here's your 15 minutes with of without the "old dual G5 with a dual 1.25 G4 set up as a distributed build" ?
It is my observation that when you set CPU speed in Energy Saver > Options to "Maximum", the G5 runs much quieter overall than in automatic mode.
I have a bug open on this with Apple, but I won't hold my breath for this ever getting fixed. (For me, the problem started with 10.4; 10.3.9 was reasonably quiet also in automatic mode).
I see you got 3 gb of ram. I got 1 gb initially, and installed parallels and winxp for a special program. The machine was pokey-pokey-pokey, especially activating apps like excel with big spreadsheets open.
Yesterday I installed another 2 gb of ram and it is lightning. Ram is our friend, and at under $500 it is well worth it.
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