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Originally Posted by gleem
I am looking for a monster configuration to justify not getting another mac, and everyone says the PC's are so much cheaper, they are, but I can't seem to find a WIN7 box with a dual chip i7 motherboard so I can process over 8 or 12 cores?
Anyone set up a multi core PC and can help a brutha out and point him to a good place to config.
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Like others have said the new sandy bridge chip is better and there's no Xeon edition yet that can run dual chips. Although the i7 is really just a nehalem chip and
there is a Xeon version. You could buy two or more Xeon Westmere which would outperform a single sandy bridge in some cases. It's not worth it though unless you are sure that you will really be using both chips. The cost really isn't that bad if you can put it together yourself, quite a bit cheaper than a mac.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819117256
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131378
If you do go that route you better make sure you get the right power supply and ram etc.