A person i know said that HD 4850 in iMac is a desktop card, but it's smaller. So, it's a little slower. I suppose that it's equal to HD 4830.
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My Quad Core 27-inch i5 has arrived! (includes pictures and Benchmark)
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It's enough for the mainstream and PCIe 2.0 x8 isn't that limiting for dual GPU scaling.
QPI has plenty of bandwidth. It's just the PCIe lanes you get from the X58 platform over P55 for connectivity.
Block diagrams are always fun.
Both the core i5 and i7 have a onboard memory controller, but yes only the Lynnfield has the PCI Express controller built on to the die I believe. Also the core i5 has only a northbridge or intel calls it something different i'm just to lazy to look it up vs i7 has a north and south bridge.
Well we didn't see LV Xeons in this iMac so if you want a Core i5/7 core, Lynnfield is going to be the way to go with 95W TDP processors and a 4-5W P55 PCH.
Correct but it just shows there's a bottle neck else where, because changing the QPI increases the bandwidth to the processor.
Yes, like I said, the memory clocks and timings are now the bottleneck. (besides the HDDs)
Yeah I really want to get a SSD and it would be flying, but my balls can't take that big of a it.
two SSDs in a mirrorthats what you want.
Unless you are rich or have an insanely well paying job, RAID 0 SSD is very out of my budget currently (or other's bidgets)
oh yea, dont get me wrong i can hardly afford petrol getting to uni each week! so i know what you mean. it was more of a dream situation hehe
Finally... my iMac i7 being shipped.
It shipped from Shanghai to Sydney Australia.
Congrads I really like the new iMac's and for the price its a really good deal, it would cost the same if not more to build a hackintosh, the display costs at least 1200 from dell or 1800 from apple. Yes the resolution is a little bit worse. Still the nicest AOI apple has come out with.
oh yea dont i know about it! im on holidays after 3 more exams thank god! time to earn some moneys
thats the reason why i am getting the iMac too! a hackintosh will virtually cost about the same price once you include the incredible screen. sure a hack can be OC'd and tweaked but its too much effort and i already have one haha!
I making my own desktop and I wish I could use Apple's 24" LED display, unluckily, they don't have the ports for any computer besides a Mac. I am not dropping $1.8k on a 30".....
I haven't had a trip over the pond in sometime but yeah the last time I was over there a pack of smokes costs me I think 5 or 6 pounds 13 american. It was nice pre bush dollars vs post bush dollars, exchange rate and all. Anyways striped SSD would be just about sex, if were dreaming I would get Intel SSD random rights are better but at 599 for 160GB its a dream damn newegg for screwing us but that's price and demand.
Remember, the 24" only has a Mini-Display adapter for video and USB for audio. That's it.
So, DVI-DP won't work.
Yeah I just built this rig in March, but in a few years who knows as long as apple keeps these kind of prices. You always have to buy it right as it comes out to be a good deal, funny to me how they charge the same price thought the life cycle, but some good deals can be had at the refurb site. I got a unibody MBP that retailed @ 2500 for 1449. I know its way out of left field but oh well.
sorry, meant mini DP. i provided a link to one that you could buy. $30 aint much.
yup thats why i am buying now. getting right on it. upgrades to CPU over the next year wont be that much of a change really, so im happy to invest now. nice change of subject to MBP
Still won't fly (I have the Apple made mDP->DVI). Remember the mDP of the 24" inserts into Macs.
sorry, meant mini DP. i provided a link to one that you could buy. $30 aint much.
yup thats why i am buying now. getting right on it. upgrades to CPU over the next year wont be that much of a change really, so im happy to invest now. nice change of subject to MBP
I'm going to start a new thread about what to make my next hachintosh, ok get ready a G4 Cube or a graphite G4 really want to piss off the fans boys and say something like put good hardware and not crap ppc in it really get them going. Even though I loved my PMG5 DC 2.0 Ghz Again I know off topic.