MP 1,1-5,1 Keep 4,1 -> 5,1 or upgrade?

[LordeOurMother]

I have the chance to purchase a true 5,1 dual processor, barebones for 250 pounds.

I have the 4,1 in the description. Is it worth going ahead with the purchase? I can move over my already done upgrades (BT, USB, NVME, etc.), and then just pick up one more of the 3.06 GHz processor.

 

[tsialex]

I have the chance to purchase a true 5,1 dual processor, barebones for 250 pounds.

I have the 4,1 in the description. Is it worth going ahead with the purchase? I can move over my already done upgrades (BT, USB, NVME, etc.), and then just pick up one more of the 3.06 GHz processor.

You can move anything from your current Mac Pro except the CPU tray/backplane, but dual CPU Mac Pros only justify if you work with video or is a software developer that needs VMs (lots of RAM + CPU usage)/compile a lot of things (lot's of cores needed). For most people that are bound to single threaded apps, a dual CPU Mac Pro is a little slower than a single CPU one.

Anyway, for this for this price, you can sell the dual CPU tray, buy a single one and pay for the whole Mac Pro.

 

[LordeOurMother]

You can move anything from your current Mac Pro except the CPU tray/backplane, but dual CPU Mac Pros only justify if you work with video or is a software developer that needs VMs (lots of RAM + CPU usage)/compile a lot of things (lot's of cores needed). For most people that are bound to single threaded apps, a dual CPU Mac Pro is a little slower than a single CPU one.

Anyway, for this for this price, you can sell the dual CPU tray, buy a single one and pay for the whole Mac Pro.

I could indeed just flip the Mac Pro for the exact same price by selling the 4,1 with some of the base components.

As for CPU stuff... it's variable. Day to day I'm usually doing student tasks (e.g. taking notes, word processing, etc.), but I'm in a statistics programme specialising in machine learning, so I do occasional run the odd algorithm or technique which I'm assuming is programmed to take advantage of multiple cores, but not all do because statisticians are sloppy coders.

At the same time, my 4,1 -> 5,1 is really nice and I kind of just want to leave it as is.