Surely one could build a higher spec pc for half that money ?

Thats ABSURDLY expensive.

EDIT - my citrix servers are more powerful, with twice as many cpus and cost a good deal less than that. GFX performance wouldnt be good though.

yeah but when you bring a chick back an she says what is that ugly piece of sh*t in the corner, youve pretty much knocked yourself down a peg for not having much taste.


plus you cant play garage band on that overly complex thing

yup.


well i didnt really have much ammo on that, but lets face it comparitivly a server an a g5 cannot be compared in teh aethetics department

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Surely one could build a higher spec pc for half that money ?

Thats ABSURDLY expensive.

EDIT - my citrix servers are more powerful, with twice as many cpus and cost a good deal less than that. GFX performance wouldnt be good though.

yeah but when you bring a chick back an she says what is that ugly piece of sh*t in the corner, youve pretty much knocked yourself down a peg for not having much taste.


plus you cant play garage band on that overly complex thing

When you build a PC no says you have to buy a sh*t looking case!

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   * Two 2GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
    * 1GB (2 x 512MB)
    * NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
    * 160GB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s
    * 1 x SuperDrive
    * Apple Keyboard & Mighty Mouse
    * Mac OS X

    * Five USB ports
    * Two FireWire 400 ports
    * Two FireWire 800 ports

£1200 (uni discount) i may buy one at that price.

Bar the OS, its nothing but a PC and could be bought for a whole lot less than £1200.

Hmm

Lets examine...

Assuming its the 2GHz option then.

2 Xeon 5130s, £244 each at Insight
Supermicro X7DAE - £366 at this place that Ive never heard of
2x512MB Kingston FB-DIMMs - £148 at Another place Ive never heard of
256MB 7300GT - Worth about £60 anywhere

That is £1062 before we factor in a power supply, case, hard drive, operating system and optical drives.

That is an E-ATX board so well need a fairly large case. Something like an Antec P180 should do. £90 at Dabs.
PSU: It needs to be an EPS one so how about a Coolermaster model here £72
160GB Seagate - £40
Superdrive - £30
Decent keyboard and mouse - £40
Windows XP Pro x64 (has to be pro for the dual processors): OEM Version can be got for about £90

That works out at £1424 which is pretty similar to what Apple sell the Mac Pro for inc VAT.

I may not have chosen the cheapest motherboard available but frankly I couldnt find any with 4 PCIe x16 slots. That is the closest I could find to the Apple one.

Im not a great apple fan, Ive never got on very well with OSX but I have to hand it to them, theyve got a nice good value for the spec system here.