I am looking at doing a fun build for my Daughter and Son-in-Law. They are huge Star Wars fans. In the recent years I have made the Mandalorian and B- Katan Helmets.
I thought if would be fun to take a 2013 Mac Pro and 3D print some parts to make it look like R2D2. They could use it as a regular computer, media server or whatever. They have 2 very young kids and so "Gaming" is really not happening. They are both teachers and so it may get used for school related stuff.
I would not even think about this, but I am seeing 2013 Mac Pros all day long on Ebay for less than $150 and the top spec E5-2697 V2 also for less than $30. However most are D300 and a lot of D500, but no D700s.
I have found D700 GPUs for $225, but that really drives up the cost. Are they really that much better than the D500? For this use case, would the D500 be fine or would they need the D700? Unlick my 5,1 or PC's, there are not many options for these.
Should I just buy the D500 version and forget the D700?
I thought if would be fun to take a 2013 Mac Pro and 3D print some parts to make it look like R2D2. They could use it as a regular computer, media server or whatever. They have 2 very young kids and so "Gaming" is really not happening. They are both teachers and so it may get used for school related stuff.
I would not even think about this, but I am seeing 2013 Mac Pros all day long on Ebay for less than $150 and the top spec E5-2697 V2 also for less than $30. However most are D300 and a lot of D500, but no D700s.
I have found D700 GPUs for $225, but that really drives up the cost. Are they really that much better than the D500? For this use case, would the D500 be fine or would they need the D700? Unlick my 5,1 or PC's, there are not many options for these.
Should I just buy the D500 version and forget the D700?
