![]() ![]() You'll want to buy the last-gen system for maximum compatibility (6th-gen Intel). You can now use a 10-series NVIDIA card, so if you want a modern GPU or want to dual-boot into Windows for gaming, it's cakeġ. It's ridiculously easy to build one these days thanks to Tonymac's system.Ģ. And of course, yay for native Hackintosh support! Discussion thread here:Ĭlick to expand.It's a good time to get into it, for 2 reasons:ġ. You can buy an Asus motherboard off the shelf for $479 that supports dual 22-core Xeons & a terabyte of RAM today, so this gives me hope that Apple is actually going to be getting really serious about Pro-level equipment in coming years. It's not a bad machine (officially maxed out at two 6-core Xeons & 64-gigs of RAM), but it is 5 years old at this point, which is ancient in computer years, plus it only has PCIe 2.0 slots (one x16 and two x4 in x16-size slots, with a max of 300w combined). I'm guessing the upcoming Mac Pro redesign will have PCIe slots (or a Razer Core-style eGPU bay), as I believe the last PCIe-capable Mac Pro was the Mac Pro (Mid 2012) model: (available 2012 to 2013, until the trash can came out)
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