Apple Mac Pro MC183LL/A w/ AppleCare Warranty 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon / 6GB RAM / 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s / ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB / Two 18x SuperDrives / AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Card with 802.11n

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• Shipping Weight: 20 pounds
• ASIN: B002DV60DK
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• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 18, 2009

Product Description

Product Description

Many quad-core processors are composed of two separate dies, which means some cached data has to travel outside the processor to get from core to core. That's an inefficient way to access information. Enter the Quad-Core Intel Xeon Nehalem processor. Its single-die, 64-bit architecture makes 8MB of fully shared L3 cache readily available to each of the four processor cores. The result is fast access to cache data and greater application performance. Combine that with the other technological advances and you get a Mac Pro that's up to 1.9x faster than the previous generation. System memory is often connected to a processor through a separate I/O controller. But each Intel Xeon Nehalem processor features an integrated memory controller another leap forward for workstation system architecture. By connecting memory directly to the processor, the new Mac Pro processors have faster access to data stored in memory, and memory latency is reduced by up to 40 percent. The integrated memory controller, along with fast 1066MHz DDR3 ECC SDRAM, also gives Mac Pro up to a 2.4x increase in memory bandwidth over previous generations.2 More bandwidth allows for more data to be fed to the processor faster, helping each core spend its time processing data, not waiting for information to arrive. And Error Correction Code (ECC) corrects single-bit errors and detects multiple-bit errors automatically. That's especially important in mission-critical and compute-intensive environments. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------