dylanreeve

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   by dylanreeve 13y ago

   It's hard to say if the new Mac Pro signifies some sort of revival of "workstation" computers because, by many standards, it doesn't stack up as one. Expandability, often one of the cornerstones of a workstation, isn&#x2
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   by dylanreeve 13y ago

   I was trying to match the marketed spec as closely as possible. At this stage there seems to only be one board (that I could find) that supports the E5-1620v2 with ECC. It lacks USB3, has only three PCIe slots and generally isn't up to
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   by dylanreeve 13y ago

   The whole post was really just a mental exercise. Clearly it's not possible to build something that matches the Mac Pro exactly - even if you could perfectly match all the advertised specs, the Mac is on a custom board, with customised