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Originally Posted by input
I'm not a CPU buff, so I'll take your word for it! But I read the i7-980x are codenamed Westmere and I see the BTO Mac Pros use Xeon Westmere going up to 2x2.93GHz 6 core (ie 12cores), so I figure this "Apple dropped the ball in not adding i7s" is BS, since they did. Even more so if the Xeons are built for stability vis-a-vis i7s
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Right, I probably should have also commented on that as well because at the end of the day, the xeon's perform almost the same as the desktop i7's, which nullifies the whole "dropped the ball" comment in the first place ><
With the exception that you can't overclock them (unless you spend $600+ alone on the EVGA Classified SR-2 motherboard).