Such a happy Mac

thefredelement · Nov 18, 2014

I just need to post this because I don't know anyone in real life who will appreciate my setup, while I'm sure most of you will be bored with this post, I'm so happy I need to write it out.

Mac Pro 4,1 dual 2.93Ghz Xeons
48GB 1333Mhz RAM (at 1066 for the time being)
ATI 7970 3GB EFI flashed card from MVC
512GB Raid 0 SSD on a Sonnet Tempo Pro (Samsung 830s)
64GB SSD, 2x 2TB HDDs, 2x SuperDrives
2x 27" ViewSonic VP2770 monitors
das Keyboard & Razer DeathAdder 2013
Apple track pad
MOTU UltraLite mk3

I'll be swapping out to newer Xeons and flashing to 5,1 firmware at some point, as well as adding a USB3.0 card, a secondary PCI SSD card (for faster scratch), a new wifi & bluetooth card and I'll swap a blu ray burner with one of the super drives.

Denis Ahrens · Nov 18, 2014

Hi

Sadly, time will move on and the hardware will get deprecated at some time. But it will be remembered as the last apple hardware which was truly user upgradable.

I thought I would never buy a desktop again after I got my quad core MBP in 2011. But then I got a not needed MacPro two years ago and I can't think of a Mac which makes more fun to use and to keep up to date.

Denis

Gav Mack · Nov 18, 2014

I'd probably only suggest a sintech PCIe card with Apple nMP 1.4gb/sec blade for booting and you can use the tempo for scratch, though whether you will need much scratch with 96mb max running at 1333 speeds with a pair of x5690's might be debatable

thefredelement · Nov 18, 2014

Gav Mack said:
I'd probably only suggest a sintech PCIe card with Apple nMP 1.4gb/sec blade for booting and you can use the tempo for scratch, though whether you will need much scratch with 96mb max running at 1333 speeds with a pair of x5690's might be debatable

I like where your head is at!

Gav Mack · Nov 18, 2014

thefredelement said:
I like where your head is at!

Not mine getting my megabytes mixed up with gigabytes posting that about the ram though

That sintech card plus blade = nMP parity and native trim on boot disk I/O and faster than every other Mac means there is only the extra instructions in the newer Xeons and single core ooomph to feel really inferior about and thunderbolt which we can never have. Plenty of life left in our old towers yet!

Korican100 · Nov 18, 2014

sweet setup bro!

Love my 4,1 (5,1 flashed)

OS6-OSX · Nov 18, 2014

Happy Mac

lowendlinux · Nov 19, 2014

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