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Has Apple finally given up on the MP?
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Mine's whisper quiet, especially when compared to my noisy coworkers.
The only time it gets loud is when it's earning lots of money.
Sound unless measured is pretty subjective..
Every time I think I want a MP I bring home my work MP and within 3 hours I know I don't want one here.
Honestly after all the hype, reading about it in MacWorld at the time, I was expecting them to be noisier. Got 3 MDD I'm cannibalizing down—admittedly I don't know if any got the PSU replacement or the firmware update but they don't seem that bad, all things considered.
Your point is valid, but GA was December 19, 2013. That's two years, six+ months of no updates.
I've had a half dozen oMPs, and unless they're rendering, nobody even knows they're on. My MacBook Pro's fans run more noisily.
What's in yours and what are you doing with it?
The specs are much older, though. At preceding WWDC announcement they were already finalized.
And, although, it's not a big deal if some parts are left 1 generation behind, some others are screaming. USB3 and GPUs being among the latter.
At work you can't hear it because the ambient noise downs it out home is another story.
I'm an "illustrator" which means I do everything from annotating and marking GIS maps, to cutting up interviews, to printing business cards.
Almost 3 years, and even at the time, the GPU/CPU were about 2 years old.
The E5 series Xeons came out in 2011/2012.
Not to mention ZERO speed bumps since December 19, 2013.
CPU/GPU/RAM/SSD prices have come down significantly.
For real. The lack of price drops, or spec bumps ... or both is beyond inexcusable at this point.
Of course bean counter Cook will look at the plummeting sales numbers and rather than say 'Hey we should update the prices and hardware' he'll say 'hmm its not selling well, guess we should stop making Mac Pro's'
The "E5-x6xx v2" CPUs came out in Q3 of 2013.
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/78582/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-v2-Family#@Server
When the MP6,1 was previewed at WWDC, it was using engineering samples of the v2 processor and/or "v1" processors. (Any 12-core was a v2, because "v1" topped out at 8.)
Are you working in a tomb without air conditioning? You'd better supply a decibel reading, It's pretty quiet most of the time where I am, home or office, and as I said, Nobody can tell any of my oMPs are even on.
I do illustration all the time, unless it's 3D rendering it doesn't stress an oMP to any extent, printing business cards is not noisy work. Maybe your interview editing is.
That's why I said without measurements quiet is relative.
My work apartment is small and only has me and no A/C, no refrigerator, etc. the ambient noise is low and that makes it loud. At work with the A/C, people, trucks, printers and such you can't hear it.
Unless you go water-cooled, I don't know what you're going to used that's quieter.
My 4,1 is too noisy to sit in my control room. Not as bad as the G4's but for pro audio use it can't be in the listening/recording environment.
We all have our priorities.
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Sounds like you need an nMP, I guess.
v1 was earlier than Q3 of 2013. It's based on Haswell architecture.
It's not even the CPU that's the issue. The GPU is from 2011, RAM around that time too and PCIe SSD prices have dramatically dropped, even if it's ECC RAM.
Burger King introduced the Whopper in 1957 but the Mac Pro uses E5 V2.
nMP is enough, no need for watercooling. Unless under heavy load it's not adding to the ambient noise, which is around 45 dB's in my apartment. For me it's impossible to hear if it's on or off. My cMP I could easily hear in this place when it was idle.
Everything was off at the office this morning when I came in, and my 2 office MacPros are whisper quiet as always.
How's the nMP with all 12 cores lit up for ten hours at a time? I'm tempted to get one to see if I can melt it, maybe when they're discontinued.
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They bringing "Rosetta" back?
According to Apple's published sound specifications the 2012 cMP falls below 45db's so how can you consider something quieter than the ambient noise loud?
https://support.apple.com/kb/SP652?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
No clue, either something was wrong with my Mac Pro, or my dB meter isn't that accurate and my ambient noise is lower than 45dB.
Hah
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Built a Skylake based mATX Hackintosh over the weekend and it's running beautifully. No issues whatsoever. Ran full 100% CPU/RAM tests over a few days and no issues whatsoever. Geekbench scores are more than 18,500.
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