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I went down a similar route last year. Bought a used 2009 Mac Pro, firmware upgrade to make it just like the 2012. Took out the two quad core, (and thanks to th
by Terribledactyl 11y ago
I went down a similar route last year. Bought a used 2009 Mac Pro, firmware upgrade to make it just like the 2012. Took out the two quad core, (and thanks to the firmware update) put in two x5675. Two GTX 970s (flashed to thermal limit of 150W) and 4x HGST 6TB. Fast PCIe SSD. Ubuntu 14.04 and ZFS.
It's a really interesting box to program concurrent and distributed algorithms on. Latency between 2 processors vs 1, HT, etc.
But the power consumption is bad. I want to switch to a new Xeon D if/when this system dies. Or maybe 4x ODROID 8 cores so I can play with networking.
- blacksmith_tb 11y agoI also did a slightly less ambitious build myself, my craigslisted Mac Pro only had the single CPU tray, so I have to be content with a single hex-core upgrade (and only a single GTX 750 Ti SC). 32GB of ECC is nice, but the lights flicker when it powers up, which makes the lower-power Xeons look appealing.