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MP 7,1 7,1 Bros: We're headed into 2025. How are we feeling?
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Have basic 2019 MP - just checked trade in from Apple -> $420.00. Some time back, someone wanted an extra MP shipping box - cost from Apple -> $400.00. The shipping box is now almost worth value of my 2019MP! 
I thought the main point of owning a Mac Pro 7,1, is it's upgradeability. And you check Apple trade in value?Have basic 2019 MP - just checked trade in from Apple -> $420.00. Some time back, someone wanted an extra MP shipping box - cost from Apple -> $400.00. The shipping box is now almost worth value of my 2019MP!
You could start upgrading it to a much more powerful machine, or add a ton of storage capability
Have basic 2019 MP - just checked trade in from Apple -> $420.00. Some time back, someone wanted an extra MP shipping box - cost from Apple -> $400.00. The shipping box is now almost worth value of my 2019MP!
I just sold my NcMP 7,1 on eBay. Had 16-core Intel, 96 GB RAM, and a Gigabyte RX6800XT Video. Sold for $1700 - After Fees and shipping, I cleared a bit over $1300. I kept all my internal SSDs and PCI cards.
Why don't you upgrade it - 24 or 28 core CPU, some 6900 level GPUs and more RAM.
Yep - Except for:
Got a new Samsung 970 EVO Plus on the way to replace it.
Lou
Actually lots of coverage in other threads from yesterday:
-macOS 26 (Sequoia++) will support the Mac Pro (2019) (and 3 other Intel Mac models)
-macOS 26 will be the last version of macOS that supports any Intel Mac
-I assume ~ September starts the 3 year countdown to the complete end of macOS support for Intel-based Macs -- that is macOS 26 will be received patches/security updates for 2 years following macOS 27 (i.e. 3 years total) following though no promises around that were made yesterday
So Intel folks will get the first, worst version of the new garbagefire "we don't need no stinking readability" decorative style, but never get the updates that pull it back to something usable.
Imagine being stuck forever in iOS 7.
The Mac Pro is still strong in my opinion. It clearly isn't the best mac in specific areas.
But as an all round machine, it is very capable.
It does quite well in exporting H.264 video. Probably better as the file size grow. Only Mac Studio Ultra M2 up, and Max M3 up, beats it. Equal to the M1 Ultra, and PC with RX 7900 XTX.
It can run a game like Cyberpunk 2077 at 5k 30fps (no ray tracing or frame generation), with a RX 7900 XTX.
These are the latest use cases I have added to my machines, and reported on macrumors forum
But as an all round machine, it is very capable.
It does quite well in exporting H.264 video. Probably better as the file size grow. Only Mac Studio Ultra M2 up, and Max M3 up, beats it. Equal to the M1 Ultra, and PC with RX 7900 XTX.
It can run a game like Cyberpunk 2077 at 5k 30fps (no ray tracing or frame generation), with a RX 7900 XTX.
These are the latest use cases I have added to my machines, and reported on macrumors forum
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I will keep mine as a developer machine running Linux for research projects I work on, however I am starting to look into building another workstation with an AMD cpu. The 7,1 is starting to get old but I it still runs very silent and cool so I expect to get more usage out of it for several more years.
I plan on riding out the final wind-down cycle on 7,1 support and then replacing it as my main machine. With what? Don't know -- I've got two more years to figure that out. My goal was to get the machine to last 10 years. It will make it to almost 9 as my *primary* and could very well remain in use as a secondary machine long after that. Not bad at all, and I still may upgrade the processor to 24 or 28 cores (I'm at 16 now).
Hey, regarding 2019 and storage, your sig says "R4i" which is the Pegasus pcie 4 bay right, so do you know if we can put more in that and easily run them as JBOD ? I'm wondering if like 22TB, maybe bigger like 32TB or some combination of pairs as my way to run them is a redundant pair for my RAW files and the other pair is for the work produced from those raw image files. I swear I read the /os limits the max size of what we can easily use in there.
Same for U.2 nvme drives on a pcie card, I thought i read 15tb max single drives but maybe it was 30Tb for a single drive.
You can use larger disks. I saw one offered on ebay with 4x 16TB installed. 64TB total.
As for JBOD, probably not.
The RAID can be deleted, and each disk formatted separately. I did this in preparation for re-creating the RAID 5, as it was second hand.
Each disk was mounted in macOS, and showed up on the desktop.
As you can see in the manual, it does not mention disk size limit.
Thank you for quick reply and info. I think I will use the R4i in a different machine for now and when needed, just bump my 2 Sonnet? R3? upper bay HDD from their current 22TB to what might be larger than the latest 26TB by the time I need that.
Right now I'm trying to figure out if 3 of the 12 128GB rams from OWC are in fact "bad" (orange repeating led only when any one of those is installed during a 6 module test) or if somehow the orange led on start-up/black screen is possibly any other issue. Interestingly, I have read in many places, but it's older OS time frame info, that with my 16 core, the mac pro 2019 should only allow 768gb ram to be installed or does it actually mean if you have too many/too much, it just won't "use" more than 768gb? I am sure there's a way to check this in system info?
But, I have 8 in there, for total 1024gb with proper start up and use of Lightroom. The only way I know of checking ram available is in photoshop where you can allocate an amount from total available by %.
In a week or so it won't matter though because I have a proper 24 core coming to install. Presumably there is in fact something wrong with 3 of these and owc will replace those.
There is one 16-core model that supports 1.5 TB, also a M model. The regular is limited to 768 GB
ebay Xeon W-3245M
ebay Xeon W-3245M
Bro tell us more about this mythical 16 core that will handle 1.5TB - it works in 7,1?
W3245M CPU - it should work fine.
Apple by default uses just the standard W3245.