Inside The Mac Pro
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Wow man. Awesome.
I remember I decided to see what a uber Mac Pro was like. With two 32" Apple cinema displays and the 32GB ram and all that.
Around ?13,000 ($21,000)
Woulda been a beast of a machine. I can only dream of things like that though - at least until I finish my exams and go to Uni and get a good job with a healthy income (but that involves hard work when I could be gaming -_-)
I remember I decided to see what a uber Mac Pro was like. With two 32" Apple cinema displays and the 32GB ram and all that.
Around ?13,000 ($21,000)
Woulda been a beast of a machine. I can only dream of things like that though - at least until I finish my exams and go to Uni and get a good job with a healthy income (but that involves hard work when I could be gaming -_-)
You should of got 32gb of ram and 2 quad cores.nice comp though very shiny.
That was just a little out of my price range (about $ 5,000), I bought mine new on Craigslist for around $2,000 still in the box.
I game on my laptop, My desktop is reserved for business, Video editing, Web design and photography.It also runs my home automation system (4 nightvision Fixed x10 security cameras, 2 Pan-able night vision cameras, my front door lock, tv, my mom's and my home entertainment system, my sprinklers as well as various lights and appliances) I don't do any gaming on it, the only game on it is chess. My laptop is again mostly business oriented, but i have The Sims 3 and Steam on it using crossover. I use my laptop for home use, surfing the web and on location video editing. I also bring it to school.
4 TBS!!!! I can't even fill up the 500gbs on my laptop....(yes my spray is wrong I upgraded it)
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Is your house a nuclear silo?!!! lol! Why all the cameras?!?!
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Yes you can get it with either one quad core Xeon processor or 2.
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Mac Pro's are crazy....too bad theyre so expensive too and can't game, the GPU's they offer seem so low-end compared to the other parts
Can't Game?? Why can't they?? I can install any operating system from ubuntu to windows 7. In fact I have a 200 gb partition with windows vista ultimate on it. I can also run crossover games and run almost any game I want, including any steam game.
Also for the question regarding all my security cameras, They all have motion detectors built in, and track when I get packages, or if my dogs get out. They also allow me to monitor my house from anymore in the world. So Yeah
There not low end at all you can either get up to 4x NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512MB or 1 ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB. both of those should be able to run almost any game and you are probably able to upgrade the GPU your self if you want. The only downside i could see for gaming is the processors are not meant for gaming they are server processors.
Don't you love when people hear(or see) the word "Mac" they naturally assume that they can't game.
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lol i have a macbook pro im not assuming anything............dude thats like bottlenecking there, a GT 120 is like nothing. Xeon processors coupled with a somewhat low end GPU??? all the components are so great and then the GPU is like like ehh
I remember they used to give the option for a 4870x2 but it was like a ridiculous upgrade price, like almost $1,000
They sell a GTX 285 for mac but its also ridiculously overpriced compared to the PC versions
Im not saying they can't game, they of course can, i do it occasionaly on my macbook pro with my XP partition but theres no point cuz i have a custom built desktop
Im just saying why do they have such nice components and then a somewhat crappy GPU, a single 4870 is not bad at all but when you pay like $4,000 i would expect atleast a 4870x2 or a GTX 295 maybe even two of them quad crossfire or sli. I guess 4xGT 120 would perform pretty decent in games but i doubt many games will support the QUAD SLI, it basically performs pretty good in theory ,even though a GT 120 is comparable to a card less than a 9600gt since the 9600gt compares to a GT 220, they are both like OEM cards
I remember they used to give the option for a 4870x2 but it was like a ridiculous upgrade price, like almost $1,000
They sell a GTX 285 for mac but its also ridiculously overpriced compared to the PC versions
Im not saying they can't game, they of course can, i do it occasionaly on my macbook pro with my XP partition but theres no point cuz i have a custom built desktop
Im just saying why do they have such nice components and then a somewhat crappy GPU, a single 4870 is not bad at all but when you pay like $4,000 i would expect atleast a 4870x2 or a GTX 295 maybe even two of them quad crossfire or sli. I guess 4xGT 120 would perform pretty decent in games but i doubt many games will support the QUAD SLI, it basically performs pretty good in theory ,even though a GT 120 is comparable to a card less than a 9600gt since the 9600gt compares to a GT 220, they are both like OEM cards
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