Hey everyone,
After many many years of running Hackintoshes and finding that I could not easily move past Monterey with a dual CPU setup, I bit the bullet and got a great deal on a Mac Pro 7,1.
However, I found out later concerning the somewhat limited setup concerning the RX580 they came with by default, and the lack of thunderbolt ports on the card and only HDMI. I use a ton of peripherals including USB devices (IT by day, musician by night) and I prefer to have dedicated USB busses for midi and audio devices (i have two pcie x4 USB cards installed for this reason) I also have a ton of thunderbolt peripherals that I would like to separate out into different busses to provide as much bandwidth to each as they can get. This includes NVMe drives, 10GBe NICs, and Universal Audio audio interface and dsp accelerator.
My previous hackintosh (HP Z820 with 2x E5-2667 v2) put out enough heat to warm several neighborhood homes, and also ate a ton of power, routinely 3A or more thanks to it being stuffed with peripherals (including nvme raid, which I can no longer boot off of on the 7,1
)
I'm currently trying to decide on what GPU to upgrade to on this machine, and Im having a ton of difficulty finding real world results and data from how much power and heat these various options put out. I've found maximum load and heat details, but very little in terms of everyday usage consumption and heat.
I'm well aware that the W5700x is the winner in the total TDP category at only 205w, but w5700xs are hard to find and generally go for more than they are honestly worth in my opinion in 2025 for the GPU power and VRAM they have.
I do see a fair amount of Vega II and Vega II Duos for sale at similar prices, and I'm curious of people's opinions on these cards and how much heat they put out under every day usage. I literally have no current use case besides some 3d modeling for printing stuff that would take advantage of the power of these GPUs, but given the w5700x second-hand prices I may need to consider it.
Do these Vega II and Vega II Duos put out a ton of heat under every day use? Do they consume a lot of power when they are not under heavy load? Same for heat?
Would love to hear some real-world info from users out there. Thank you!
After many many years of running Hackintoshes and finding that I could not easily move past Monterey with a dual CPU setup, I bit the bullet and got a great deal on a Mac Pro 7,1.
However, I found out later concerning the somewhat limited setup concerning the RX580 they came with by default, and the lack of thunderbolt ports on the card and only HDMI. I use a ton of peripherals including USB devices (IT by day, musician by night) and I prefer to have dedicated USB busses for midi and audio devices (i have two pcie x4 USB cards installed for this reason) I also have a ton of thunderbolt peripherals that I would like to separate out into different busses to provide as much bandwidth to each as they can get. This includes NVMe drives, 10GBe NICs, and Universal Audio audio interface and dsp accelerator.
My previous hackintosh (HP Z820 with 2x E5-2667 v2) put out enough heat to warm several neighborhood homes, and also ate a ton of power, routinely 3A or more thanks to it being stuffed with peripherals (including nvme raid, which I can no longer boot off of on the 7,1
)I'm currently trying to decide on what GPU to upgrade to on this machine, and Im having a ton of difficulty finding real world results and data from how much power and heat these various options put out. I've found maximum load and heat details, but very little in terms of everyday usage consumption and heat.
I'm well aware that the W5700x is the winner in the total TDP category at only 205w, but w5700xs are hard to find and generally go for more than they are honestly worth in my opinion in 2025 for the GPU power and VRAM they have.
I do see a fair amount of Vega II and Vega II Duos for sale at similar prices, and I'm curious of people's opinions on these cards and how much heat they put out under every day usage. I literally have no current use case besides some 3d modeling for printing stuff that would take advantage of the power of these GPUs, but given the w5700x second-hand prices I may need to consider it.
Do these Vega II and Vega II Duos put out a ton of heat under every day use? Do they consume a lot of power when they are not under heavy load? Same for heat?
Would love to hear some real-world info from users out there. Thank you!
