Mac Pro Released: 3.0 Ghz Woodcrest...

[rampancy]

Straight from MacNN's live coverage:

# The inside, however, has been totally redone [08/07 10:15am]

# Can store up t 2TB (4x500GB) of information due to larger space for drives because machines require less cooling. [08/07 10:15am]

# As expected, the case design stays relatively the same (cept for second optical slot) [08/07 10:14am]

# A total of 2 TB of storage possible. Second optical drive, 4 PCI Express slots, double-wide graphics slot. [08/07 10:14am]

# the 128-bit vector engine replaces "AltiVec"/Velocity [08/07 10:13am]

# The Mac Pro has space for 4 hard disks because it requires less cooling than the G5-based PowerMac [08/07 10:13am]

# Real-world speed increase for average everyday apps about 200% faster [08/07 10:13am]

# The Mac Pro is 1.6- 2.1 times faster than Power Mac G5 Quad [08/07 10:12am]

# The Mac Pro is being compared to the G5 [08/07 10:11am]

# The Mac Pro and Woodcrest chips have tremendous performance per watt ratio [08/07 10:10am]

# 3GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 128bit vector engine, 64bit chips

Awesome! 2x optical drive bays, 4 HDD bays and four PCI slots!

EDIT: No SLI/Crossfire though...ATI Radeon X1900XT (std) or NVIDIA GeForce FX4500 (upgrade)...and from what MacNN says the base config. has 256 MB RAM.

So I guess this means that, a) they've finally caught up to the MDD Power Mac , and b) Apple hasn't put you and the guys at StrangeDogs out of a job just yet...

[aquamac]

Wow, can't wait to give one of those a go at the Apple store. Also ATI Radeon X1900 XT is good news for Power PC PCI express owners. I wonder if these will be available as after market upgrades. ATI never ofered the X850 XT as an aftermarket upgrade, although this was a pretty small speed bump of the X800 XT,but, they are generally pretty good at selling their cards seperately.

Anyway, shame X1900 XT has never been made as AGP. Would have been fun in say an MDD, ATI drivers have been pretty good with OS X recently!

Still sounds like another challenge!!!

[reddrag0n]

*just cries*

[rampancy]

Upset over the graphics, reddrag0n? Thank God for Ruby Tuesday and Strange Dogs...

xlr8yourmac has this:

"ATI to release (retail) PCI-Express Radeon X1900 G5 Edition - I called an ATI contact at WWDC to ask if the new "ATI Radeon X1900 XT Graphics Upgrade Kit" at the Apple store (kit priced at $499, est. 3-5 weeks to ship) would work in a PCI-Express based G5 Tower. (The Apple store kit page says it requires a Mac Pro.) I was told the X1900 XT kit card would -not- work in a PCI-e G5.

However he said that they would soon release a "X1900 G5 Edition" for PCI Express G5 towers. (equiv. to the PC X1900 GT card, less pipes than the X1900 XT for the Mac Pro tower).
The X1900 G5 edition was demoed at Siggraph in a PCI-e G5 he said and hopefully will be available at retail in a few weeks. He said the card is compatible with OS X 10.4.7 using the drivers included with card. (No official price yet, but I think it will be significantly less than the X1900 XT's Kit price.)"

[reddrag0n]

rampancy said:

Upset over the graphics, reddrag0n?

nope....

that's more than i make in 6 months

[gotoh]

I like the drawers to put hard drives !!

[gotoh]

CPUs are pretty well hiden. I can't even see where they are !

[rampancy]

The CPUs are in the largish rectangular compartment in front of the RAM.

reddrag0n: oops, sorry.