Nice. I’ve got a 4,1 flashed to 5,1 with dual quad core Xeons running at 2.26GHz, 28GB of RAM, a GTX680 flashed with Apple firmware, 500GB SSD for the boot drive, two 1TB hard drives for file storage and a 6TB hard drive as an internal Time Machine backup that I mirror to my FreeNAS box daily. I’ve toyed wit the idea of upgrading processors, but for what? I don’t really do anything that stresses the ones I have now.
There’s nothing I can’t throw at this box that it can’t handle. I love transcoding video with Handbrake, as it zips through files in no time flat. I just recently upgraded to High Sierra from El Capitan because I could. No noticeable improvement, but probably more secure. I loves my cheesegrater. -D > On Mar 17, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I'm in the middle of upgrading my tricked-out Mac Pro 1,1 to a > tricked-out Mac Pro 4,1. This is essentially for work purposes, > and when I'm done it'll be running High Sierra instead of El Capitan, > and as a result capable of running the latest VMware and DxO packages. > > This tower can hold much more RAM and disk than I can use with > the new-ish laptop I've been using. And, the 30" monitor is pretty nice. > When I'm done I should have a 12-core (24-thread) 3.3GHz CPU array, > 48GB of RAM, 3TB of disk, plus a small SSD for the OS and apps. > > Total cash outlay was a little higher than I'd like, some $800, but you > can't touch anything new-ish for that kind of money, and this should > serve well for several years. I checked, and I've used the 1,1 for four > years. Performance of the 1,1 has never been any kind of issue, and > I expect the same of the 4,1. (Neither machine is considered 'fast' > today, but a lot of that is just skewed expectations. They both ARE > fast, just not AS fast as some newer machines. But, unless you're > doing work where that matters it's a non-issue. This 4,1 can process > my typical photos at about 1 per second, which is plenty good enough, > and I don't even have the new 5,1 CPU's in it yet.) > > -- Jim > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
