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I use my Mac Pro 2008 8 core for both. Found it very easy to setup first time. I picked up a 285 card last year to get it up to date. No difference to a windows machine except the price.
^^You won't find better than Mac in running these softwares ^^
Moreover, the Mac Pro can handle windows games under bootcamp very well. But, it may better to order MP with ATI 5870 GPu; it is the best GPU apple offer and most of new game demand a powerful GPU.
No. ...Why do we keep getting threads like this?
Server processors are really no worse for gaming.
Server processors aren't for gaming as they are more expensive then their consumer counterparts.
Why get a Xeon 35xx processor over its i7 equivalent? ECC memory.
Why get a Xeon 55xx processor over its i7 equivalent? Dual CPUs.
Other then that, they're the exact same processor.
Why get a Xeon 35xx processor over its i7 equivalent? ECC memory.
Why get a Xeon 55xx processor over its i7 equivalent? Dual CPUs.
Other then that, they're the exact same processor.
Which makes it more expensive, not worse for gaming.
That's like saying if I buy a BMW instead of a Honda civic, that it's not for driving to the grocery store.
OP has already said he does Final Cut and CS5. That's more than enough reason for the added expense.
Server processors are not always exactly the same as the consumer parts. The 2008 Mac Pro had a slight disadavantage (gaming-wise) compared to normal Core2 machines due to the use of hihgher-latency FB-DIMM memory. In theory. However, this difference is negligible and more than compensated by the numbers of cores in most of the cases....
on the i7 derivates there is no such difference AFAIK.
on the i7 derivates there is no such difference AFAIK.