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How is your experience with the new Mac Pro?
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Great machine when it is flawless.
(I do have a 6-Core / 32 GB/ D500s / 256 GB).
Under heavy load it is sometimes getting hot. The metal cylinder gets really warm and the ssd is at 60 degrees centigrade.
Be sure to check out the fan's noise (you should only hear the airflow) and the GPU's noise (coil whine seems to be a widspread issue).
Besides it is definitively worth the money and easy to maintain
(I do have a 6-Core / 32 GB/ D500s / 256 GB).
Under heavy load it is sometimes getting hot. The metal cylinder gets really warm and the ssd is at 60 degrees centigrade.
Be sure to check out the fan's noise (you should only hear the airflow) and the GPU's noise (coil whine seems to be a widspread issue).
Besides it is definitively worth the money and easy to maintain
I got a 6 core, 64 GB, D700s, & 1TB and I love it for photo and video work.
It's dead quiet, in fact my two monitors make more noise than the nMP does
It's dead quiet, in fact my two monitors make more noise than the nMP does
4c/D700s/1TB
The computer gets out of the way and lets me do work which is what I really want. Something that doesn't remind me every time I build that its taking a while to think.
The cool thing is that can also use an iMac as a display via Thunderbolt
The computer gets out of the way and lets me do work which is what I really want. Something that doesn't remind me every time I build that its taking a while to think.
The cool thing is that can also use an iMac as a display via Thunderbolt
64GB/256GB/Hex Core/D700/3 x 27" Cinema
At the same time I built up an absolute top of the line PC for gaming, which is similar to the nMP and as good a computer as I could build.
4.6GHz i7 water cooled/AMD 295x2 Water Cooled GPU/32GB/2xSSD RAID/LG 21:9/Thunderbolt 2.0
I don't do benchmarks but evaluate by how it goes in real world use. Notes ...
I love them both. I prefer the stability of the nMP for my real work, where reboots are intolerable. While there have been a few glitches it has performed as expected. But I paid far less for far more performance with the PC, which is needed for the gaming performance I wanted.
Conclusion; a lot of people strain to turn Mac Pro's in to gaming machines or PC's of some type, I'd never bother unless you really needed to do this. Far, far better to have each for their respective jobs. If I could have only one, it'd have to be a nMP because there's no other way to run OS X. If I didn't have to have OS X I'd do the PC, you get way more for way less.
At the same time I built up an absolute top of the line PC for gaming, which is similar to the nMP and as good a computer as I could build.
4.6GHz i7 water cooled/AMD 295x2 Water Cooled GPU/32GB/2xSSD RAID/LG 21:9/Thunderbolt 2.0
I don't do benchmarks but evaluate by how it goes in real world use. Notes ...
- The nMP is quieter than the fully water cooled PC by a long shot, and it's a tenth the size
- The nMP works mostly flawlessly (99%), while the PC is glitchy (just reboot!) and had to be "tamed" when I first turned it on
- The PC is a much faster computer for much less money, the nMP feels like a stately old grandmother in comparison
- The PC is far more configurable, with more options than the nMP which practically isn't configurable at all.
I love them both. I prefer the stability of the nMP for my real work, where reboots are intolerable. While there have been a few glitches it has performed as expected. But I paid far less for far more performance with the PC, which is needed for the gaming performance I wanted.
Conclusion; a lot of people strain to turn Mac Pro's in to gaming machines or PC's of some type, I'd never bother unless you really needed to do this. Far, far better to have each for their respective jobs. If I could have only one, it'd have to be a nMP because there's no other way to run OS X. If I didn't have to have OS X I'd do the PC, you get way more for way less.
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Exactly So
4 Core, 512GB SSD, 16GB RAM.
Fast, quiet, no problems whatsoever!
Exactly So
6c, 64gb, 1tb, D700. I love it. It's a great option if you don't want the size but need the power of a workstation.
Everything has been amazing except frequent bugs when using Word 2011. I get error messages like bit enough memory and I have finder folders disappear after using word. Didn't have this problem with any other mac.
And when using word, I can hear the coil whine chirping very so often. Don't know why Word is causing my only headache.
And when using word, I can hear the coil whine chirping very so often. Don't know why Word is causing my only headache.
8 core / 32GB / 1TB / D500 - it's an amazing machine, rock solid and dead quiet. The only thing I'm not a fan of is my continuing reliability issues with Time Machine utilizing an external (obviously) drive. It backs up stuff from the nMP and my Drobo 5D. Sometimes the TM back up just hangs.
I've had my machine since February.
6 core / 64gb / 1tb ssd / 2xD700
Flawless execution. Runs 3x Dell U2412M 1920x1200 + World Community Grid (CPU saturation) + Einstein@home (GPU saturation) + Linux (4gb)/Windows(4gb) VMWare Fusion VMs + XCode C++ compilations simultaneously without any issue.
Runs bootcamp Windows 8 + Steam games without any issue.
Body gets warm when running full-tilt grid computing, 30-35c in a room that's 20-25c no crashes or glitches from hardware whatsoever.
10/10.
Flawless execution. Runs 3x Dell U2412M 1920x1200 + World Community Grid (CPU saturation) + Einstein@home (GPU saturation) + Linux (4gb)/Windows(4gb) VMWare Fusion VMs + XCode C++ compilations simultaneously without any issue.
Runs bootcamp Windows 8 + Steam games without any issue.
Body gets warm when running full-tilt grid computing, 30-35c in a room that's 20-25c no crashes or glitches from hardware whatsoever.
10/10.
I love this little guy!!!
What's that cool keyboard setup you have there? Also, I really like your Apple screen background
I got the 8 core/64GB/512GB/D700 and I think from a average user perspective it's amazing, and second to none.
However, it's slower than I want it to be from a high end workstation graphics perspective. I would like to see a version with dual R9 295 graphics instead of dual 280x (D700) as the fastest option. Or better yet dual Quatro K6000.
The machine itself is amazing (I basically agree with all the excellent reviews of the performance (in this thread and everywhere else), but I found that the physical build quality (outside of the metal parts) of this thing surprisingly terrible.
Plastic for RAM sockets? I can never understand why they decided to do this. Even the standard RAM sockets that they have in MacMini/Macbook will work great (with the metal clips), but no, they have to make it all in plastic. Thin, easily broken/bent plastic, too.
The metal body look great and solid, but then you open it up and found cheaply looking things in there. It was such a turn off. The unit that came through my desk a month ago, had a malfunctioning RAM socket, in addition to the socket being bent a little so it's skewed/uneven at the top. It looked really bad, and on top of that I had to return it right away to have the broken socket repaired (it won't recognize any RAM stick being inserted there).
Plastic for RAM sockets? I can never understand why they decided to do this. Even the standard RAM sockets that they have in MacMini/Macbook will work great (with the metal clips), but no, they have to make it all in plastic. Thin, easily broken/bent plastic, too.
The metal body look great and solid, but then you open it up and found cheaply looking things in there. It was such a turn off. The unit that came through my desk a month ago, had a malfunctioning RAM socket, in addition to the socket being bent a little so it's skewed/uneven at the top. It looked really bad, and on top of that I had to return it right away to have the broken socket repaired (it won't recognize any RAM stick being inserted there).
What's that cool keyboard setup you have there? Also, I really like your Apple screen background
Keyboard is Moshi Luna Backlit Keyboard available in the Apple Store and various other online sites.
Can't remember where I put the wallpaper. As soon as I find it, I'll send you a link.
Also, I really like your Apple screen background
Can't remember exactly where I got that one, but I think this is the same one:
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12 Core / 64GB of RAM / 1TB Internal Storage
Been several months now, I have no real complaints. It's been flawless, reliable, and a workhorse. I don't do much heavy-duty stuff, so most of the time its sitting idly by at 1% load, taunting me to "bring it" but when I do throw heavy lifting, it giggles, and churns right through it.
I could use another pair of USB ports as I currently have more USB than Thunderbolt stuff, but I'm not hurting either.
Been several months now, I have no real complaints. It's been flawless, reliable, and a workhorse. I don't do much heavy-duty stuff, so most of the time its sitting idly by at 1% load, taunting me to "bring it" but when I do throw heavy lifting, it giggles, and churns right through it.
I could use another pair of USB ports as I currently have more USB than Thunderbolt stuff, but I'm not hurting either.