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We might be ahead of Apple's product release cycle, and we've probably violated our Mac Pro's warranty, but we just had to see what the Apple Mac Pro could do when populated with a pair of Intel's brand-new quad-core Xeon 5355 processors.



System configurations

Intel QX6700: 4 cores @ 2.66GHz, Windows XP
Windows XP Professional SP2; 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700; 2,048MB DDR2 SDRAM 800MHz; 256MB ATI Radeon X1900; 74GB Western Digital 10,000rpm SATA/150

Mac Pro: 4 cores @ 3.0GHz, Mac OS X
Mac OS X 10.4.8; 2x 3.0GHz Intel Xeon 5160; 2,048MB DDR2 FB-SDRAM 667MHz; 512MB ATI Radeon X1900; 500GB Seagate 7,200rpm SATA/150

Mac Pro: 4 cores @ 3.0GHz, Windows XP
Windows XP Professional SP2; 2x 3.0GHz Intel Xeon 5160; 2.048MB DDR2 FB-SDRAM 667MHz; 512MB ATI Radeon X1900; 500GB Seagate 7,200rpm SATA/150

Mac Pro: 8 cores @ 2.66GHz, Mac OS X
Mac OS X 10.4.8; 2x 2.66GHz Intel Xeon 5355; 2,048MB DDR2 FB-SDRAM 667MHz; 512MB ATI Radeon X1900; 500GB Seagate 7,200rpm SATA/150

Mac Pro: 8 cores @ 2.66GHz, Windows XP
Windows XP Professional SP2; 2x 2.66GHz Intel Xeon 5355; 2,048MB DDR2 FB-SDRAM 667MHz; 512MB ATI Radeon X1900; 500GB Seagate 7,200rpm SATA/150

Eight-core Mac Pro