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Old 6th September 2008, 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by dangelovich View Post
I find the raw processing power of my Mac Pro goes unused most of the time.
I run a few Virtual Machines on it now and then, and the numerous cores are very useful in these cases. I also encode/transcode some video files - but even that doesn't take full advantage of all 8 cores. I don't think I've seen any one app use up all the CPU time.

It is good to know this beast can handle *anything* I can throw at it.
perhaps you throw BOINC at it and some SETI,Einstein and Rosetta.

works just fine on my E6600.
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