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Should I Buy New Mac Pro

Washac

Washac

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As below I run a 2009 Mac Pro should I replace it with one of these?

Used mainly for gaming and running Bootcamp.

New Mac Pro

3.7GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 processor
  • 12GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory
  • Dual AMD FirePro D300
    with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM each
  • 256GB PCIe-based flash storage1
 
For gaming and bootcamp, NO.

At least not now. According to today standard, that's the old technology, you can easily put a high end GPU on your 4,1 (or even multi-GPU setup), which give you good gaming experience. If you want the new Mac Pro, may be wait until next gen. It's doesn't looks like you really need this Pro machine now, so not worth that amount of money.

If you go to the Mac Pro's forum, there is a thread that about how to get the power directly from the 980W PSU, which will give you enough power to run dual Titan X + X5690.

Also, it's not easy to get the AMD driver to work on the new Mac Pro, and enable CF.
 
h9826790 said:
For gaming and bootcamp, NO.

At least not now. According to today standard, that's the old technology, you can easily put a high end GPU on your 4,1 (or even multi-GPU setup), which give you good gaming experience. If you want the new Mac Pro, may be wait until next gen. It's doesn't looks like you really need this Pro machine now, so not worth that amount of money.

If you go to the Mac Pro's forum, there is a thread that about how to get the power directly from the 980W PSU, which will give you enough power to run dual Titan X + X5690.

Also, it's not easy to get the AMD driver to work on the new Mac Pro, and enable CF.
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Hey, thanks for this reply, cannot locate that thread you mention.
 
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h9826790 said:
For gaming and bootcamp, NO.

At least not now. According to today standard, that's the old technology, you can easily put a high end GPU on your 4,1 (or even multi-GPU setup), which give you good gaming experience. If you want the new Mac Pro, may be wait until next gen. It's doesn't looks like you really need this Pro machine now, so not worth that amount of money.
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Sorry confusion set in, forget this reply.
 
h9826790 said:
For gaming and bootcamp, NO.

At least not now. According to today standard, that's the old technology, you can easily put a high end GPU on your 4,1 (or even multi-GPU setup), which give you good gaming experience. If you want the new Mac Pro, may be wait until next gen. It's doesn't looks like you really need this Pro machine now, so not worth that amount of money.

If you go to the Mac Pro's forum, there is a thread that about how to get the power directly from the 980W PSU, which will give you enough power to run dual Titan X + X5690.

Also, it's not easy to get the AMD driver to work on the new Mac Pro, and enable CF.
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Well that GPU sorted flashed AMD Radeon 7950 3GB, now to throw some more memory at it :)
 
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There are always reasons to buy one and to not buy one now. If you need a new one to do what you want, then buy it.
 
Absolutely not. I have the 6-core with D700's and it's not a great gaming machine. If all you do is gaming and bootcamp, then buy a PC. Seriously for the money you will spend on a nMP you will get a far faster gaming machine. My old core i7 3770k with GTX 780 is a much smoother gaming experience than my nMP and the PC cost around 1/4 of the price of the Mac.
 
shaunp said:
Absolutely not. I have the 6-core with D700's and it's not a great gaming machine. If all you do is gaming and bootcamp, then buy a PC. Seriously for the money you will spend on a nMP you will get a far faster gaming machine. My old core i7 3770k with GTX 780 is a much smoother gaming experience than my nMP and the PC cost around 1/4 of the price of the Mac.
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Well the machine I have is my all purpose machine that I game on, I really do not want nor do I really need two machines as in the one I am using now and a second gaming PC, thanks for your input though :)
 
Washac said:
Well the machine I have is my all purpose machine that I game on, I really do not want nor do I really need two machines as in the one I am using now and a second gaming PC, thanks for your input though :)
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Well if you are definitely going to go down the nMP route at least get the D700's. The quad-core will be fine, but you'll need the extra GPU power.
 
shaunp said:
Well if you are definitely going to go down the nMP route at least get the D700's. The quad-core will be fine, but you'll need the extra GPU power.
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Thanks for that advice.
 
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