You know our Mac Pro's have prob been travelling together. In the same truck together, same plane, then they went their separate ways once they hit Deutschland
They're probably factory siblings.
Who is getting the New Mac Pro
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They're probably factory siblings.
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Whoever orders a quad core Mac Pro wants their underpants forcibly removed via their head.
For the love of god you want a powerhouse, not a desktop alternative
For the love of god you want a powerhouse, not a desktop alternative
Whoever orders a quad core Mac Pro wants their underpants forcibly removed via their head.
For the love of god you want a powerhouse, not a desktop alternative
Unless you get the quad only so you can swap out the CPU to a better one yourself.
In other news, my package hasn't moved from Germany since it arrived there Thursday.
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I have one at Work, i didn't buy it but i would recommend it for a Work station machine thats the best thing its used for very good for my work anywya.
My Mac Pro just arrived, and the UPS guy essentially slammed it down on its side on the wall in front of my house. I could hear the thud as I walked up to him. Never mind the stickers that said this way up :/
Time to open it up and fully inspect it.
No visible damage or issues, but the foam inside the box was broken.
So far so good. Exporting a video, and the huge bottleneck is my external HDD's.
Time to open it up and fully inspect it.
No visible damage or issues, but the foam inside the box was broken.
So far so good. Exporting a video, and the huge bottleneck is my external HDD's.
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Nice
Xeon 6 Core 3.5Ghz
32GB DDR3 ECC 1867Mhz RAM
Dual D700 AMD FirePro
512GB PCIe SSD
It's almost as though edit suites should be viewed as complete systems. I really don't see the disadvantages to the new Mac Pros that a lot of people do.
I don't see many use cases for it either though - an iMac with a BlackMagic UltraStudio 4K will be perfect for 1080p and you could have several of them.
Xeon 6 Core 3.5Ghz
32GB DDR3 ECC 1867Mhz RAM
Dual D700 AMD FirePro
512GB PCIe SSD
Nice!!
Xeon 6 Core 3.5Ghz
32GB DDR3 ECC 1867Mhz RAM
Dual D700 AMD FirePro
512GB PCIe SSD
I think that's pretty much the sweet spot for price-spec-performance for most people. Nice choice.
Agreed, although I'm kinda kicking myself for not getting 1TB internal storage just to have peace of mind. I have plenty of external storage, it's just solo bloody slow compared to the internal SSD.
The best my thunderbolt and USB3.0 drives manage are peaks at 140MB/s reads/writes.
It's drastically lower for actually video streaming and editing mind. Currently waiting to see what the Price of the new Lacie Big5 TB2 array costs.
Either there's something up with the AJA system test, or my Mac Pro SSD is a beast for 4K video
Also I'm still trying to decide with between either the AOC 1440p PLS display, or waiting for the 4K version to try out. I want to see what its colour accuracy is like first hand.
Graphics wise I'm a tad disappointed in AMD's OpenGL drivers. In tests like Unigine Valley, and Heaven they do better in OpenGL within OSX compared to Windows( in fact a single D700 in OSX OpenGL can match and beat Xfire D700's in Windows OpenGL) . Although they're still a far cry from Direct X performance.
There's plenty of untapped power and potential for the dual GPU setup. Apple would be smart to also enable DMA for the GPUs to get even more out of them.
OpenCL wise, they're absolute beasts, and take on two Titans.
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They're releasing the new FirePro W9100 based on Hawaii. I certainly hope they're updating the drivers as well. I've seen Apple are asking developers to focus on GPU drivers for 10.9.3 beta. Hopefully it means good things.
The cards have a lot of untapped potential at the moment for OpenGL, and they're certainly no slouches for performance.
I'll try and get my hands on a copy of windows 8 at some stage for more comparisons, as I've seen crossfire works easily on there.
It's worth noting though that even with looped 3D benchmarks, and rendering/exporting for over 2 hours in FPCX; not once was the machine audible for me, or hot. At best there was some light warm air form up top. To be expected though, and my room ambient is around 18 degrees on average.
With the 3D tests the GPU peaked at 52 degrees celsius but then, and even then the only real audible noise was my external HDD's producing a light hum from inside my desk cabinet.
For those interested in some benchmarks here's the Unigine Valley and Heaven tests.
Note they only use a single D700, and screen recording does drop performance a tad.
Here are all 3 Luxmark 2.1 tests as well. There's also something odd in that one of the D700's is being reported by Luxmark as having a core clock of 150Mhz, while the other has 850Mhz. Apparently is due to Luxmark reading the core clocks as it launches, and the second GPU is down clocked until it needs to render something.
Note they only use a single D700, and screen recording does drop performance a tad.
Here are all 3 Luxmark 2.1 tests as well. There's also something odd in that one of the D700's is being reported by Luxmark as having a core clock of 150Mhz, while the other has 850Mhz. Apparently is due to Luxmark reading the core clocks as it launches, and the second GPU is down clocked until it needs to render something.
I like the frame on it, but now VESA mount is a let down really. If the Asus was to drop its price by 100 I'd get that over the AOC due to the thinner bezels.
I don't get it what is so special about its looks (its small yer cool, ) that make it worth getting this over getting 98%(or better) of the performance and 1000000x more upgrade ability on building a hackintosh? (people have said there duel booting anyway) i am pretty shore with a few tweeks on what i got i could have got a setup on my comp when i built it that would run mac OSX/win and it cost less than half the base cost for the macpro and is looking at been more powerful than the 6k one. Because other than the looks (which are not even on the top 10 of priority's when picking high end desktop PC's (because there hid under the desk so who cares.
there's nothing going for it in my eyes.
I gess there cool for people who just want a nice looking box that people can show off and say "its a mac pro" even when those types of people will never get close to using the hardware to its limits.
And am amazed the the waiting times of this crap.. WEEKSSSSSSS and weeks and weeks.... my last comp (5 weeks ago) i posted on here at like 10pm.. got a spec some people tweaked it left it over night got up on a Saturday morning checked the topic logged into OC main site ordered it, got in the car drove for 1h 30mins picked it up came back home got a xl bacon double cheeseburger meal the built it and by 6pm that day it was up and running.
there's nothing going for it in my eyes.
I gess there cool for people who just want a nice looking box that people can show off and say "its a mac pro" even when those types of people will never get close to using the hardware to its limits.
And am amazed the the waiting times of this crap.. WEEKSSSSSSS and weeks and weeks.... my last comp (5 weeks ago) i posted on here at like 10pm.. got a spec some people tweaked it left it over night got up on a Saturday morning checked the topic logged into OC main site ordered it, got in the car drove for 1h 30mins picked it up came back home got a xl bacon double cheeseburger meal the built it and by 6pm that day it was up and running.
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Cool story bro
Whats the deal with the vesa mount. Is having it mounted really a deal breaker these days?