參考一下美國維吉尼亞理工大學訂購 1100 台 雙 cpu 的 PowerMac G5 來架設的超級電腦。這個若跑 audio，10 萬軌應該沒問題....不過他們可能是要拿來做大氣科學之類的運算。 學生改裝： http://tartarus.uwa.edu.au/~trs80/Terascale/G5%20Modification/IMG_2104.jpg 裝 cables： http://tartarus.uwa.edu.au/~trs80/Terascale/Assembly/IMG_2463.jpg 成果： http://tartarus.uwa.edu.au/~trs80/Terascale/G5s%20in%20Racks/IMG_2353.jpg
PC magazine 有 G5 review，可參考一下。 http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1274138,00.asp </font><blockquote>引言:</font><hr /> Well, we'll take that salt with a side of fries. After testing a loaded ($4,349 direct, after we opted for more RAM and upgraded graphics) dual 2.0-GHz Power Mac G5 on a range of high-end content creation applications and comparing the results with a similarly configured (and priced) Dell Precision 650 Workstation running dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors, we see that indeed the G5 is generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available </font>[/QUOTE]PC magazine 於此點有些離譜。dual 3.06-GHz Xeon processors 的 PC 工作站價格比 G5 還貴上很多，他們直接略過不提。並為了拉平價格，所有 RAM 都從原廠上來買 (原廠 option 通常較貴)。 Dell 買太多廣告，也難怪於一群相同代工的 PC 中總是被評 number one。