Building The Mac Pro

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Post by mrflett » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 10:54 AM UTC

Re: Building The Mac Pro

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Post by DanBlake » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 11:23 AM UTC

The graphics cards are the big piece. You pay alot of money to get that firepro label, compared to performance of similar gaming cards with very comparable specs. You could cut out ~500$ that way.

Re: Building The Mac Pro

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Post by rdl » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 11:23 AM UTC

I don't get why he speced the E5 CPU vs. the i7 but then also didn't use ECC RAM.

Re: Building The Mac Pro

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 11:24 AM UTC

DanBlake wrote: post #2

The graphics cards are the big piece. You pay alot of money to get that firepro label, compared to performance of similar gaming cards with very comparable specs. You could cut out ~500$ that way.

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Re: Building The Mac Pro

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Post by jlebrech » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 11:32 AM UTC

does mavericks phone home?

Re: Building The Mac Pro

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Post by jimparkins » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 11:33 AM UTC

You can buy and modify a Toyota Supra to go faster than a Ferrari for much less money. Thats why nobody buys Ferrari's - there is just no point. And people buying Ferraris are just stupid for wasting their money when they could have a Toyota Supra instead.

Re: Building The Mac Pro

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 11:35 AM UTC

rdl wrote: post #3

I don't get why he speced the E5 CPU vs. the i7 but then also didn't use ECC RAM.

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Re: Building The Mac Pro

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Post by etchalon » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 11:38 AM UTC

After reading the article, my takeaway was:

1. You can't build a Mac Pro equivalent with off the shelf parts (yet). 2. You can get kinda close, but you're not saving that much money. 3. The less close you're willing to get, the less money you'll spend, which is absolutely not interesting, surprising or relevant.

In summary, the new Mac Pro is pretty awesomely priced and I'm going to order one for my lead dev.

Re: Building The Mac Pro

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Post by etchalon » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 11:39 AM UTC

etchalon wrote: post #8

After reading the article, my takeaway was: 1. You can't build a Mac Pro equivalent with off the shelf parts (yet). 2. You can get kinda close, but you're not saving that much money. 3. The less close you're willing to get, the less money you'll spend, which is absolutely not interesting, surprising or relevant. In summary, the new Mac Pro is pretty awesomely priced and I'm going to order one for my lead dev.

…and probably one for myself…

Re: Building The Mac Pro

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Post by pflats » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 11:42 AM UTC

rdl wrote: post #3

I don't get why he speced the E5 CPU vs. the i7 but then also didn't use ECC RAM.

>"The only ECC-supporting motherboard I could find compatible with the CPU has no USB3, only supports 1600MHz RAM and only offers 3 PCIe slots."