Water cooled CPU+NorthBridge(indirect)+GPU. System stress tests under Windows 7 64bit. This is Xeon X5570 at 3.6GHz with energy features activated and HT. GPU is NVIDIA EVGA GTX295 overclocked to 700/1500/1200 and vcore to 1.1 Volts. Very nice stable system.. running almost 24/7 since 2010. RAM is at 1600 MHz with CL8-8-8-18 1T for a tri-channel config.
Mac Pro vs HP Z800 HP Z800 2x Intel® Xeon® E5520 2.26 6GB (6x1GB) DDR3-1333 ECC 1000GB SATA 7200 16X DVD+-RW NVIDIA Quadro NVS 295 256MB HP PS/2 Standard Keyboard HP PS/2 Optical Scroll Mouse HP FireWire 800 IEEE 1394b PCI -Subtotal:$4013.00 before shipping With 2x Intel® Xeon® X5550 2.66+same everything else: -Subtotal:$6213.00 before shipping with 2x Intel® Xeon® X5570 2.93+same everything else: -Subtotal:$7393.00 before shipping Mac Pro Two 2.26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 6GB (6x1GB) (1066 mhz) Mac Pro RAID Card 1TB 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s One 18x SuperDrive NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB Apple Mouse Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad -Subtotal: $4099.00 WITH FREE SHIPPING With Two 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon: -Subtotal: $5499.00 With Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon: -$5899.00 Sure, the quad costs a lot, but lets not blanket the whole product line with a bunch of FUD.
