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Re: I've upgraded to a 'new' Mac...

By: weco in FFFT | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 07 Jul 12 8:35 PM | 47 view(s)
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Welcome aboard!

Early 2008 Mac Pro here... Octo-Core!
Processor 2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 MB

It replaced my dual-500 G4 but it's still sitting on another table in here, a spare in the closet.. Was going to run Unix on one, but..

I poked a 500 Gb IDE HD on a little sled into the spare DVD drive slot, the HDs are full of a couple 1 Tb, one 2 Tb, and yet another 500 gb,, I use the 2 tb as the Time Machine drive, the others as either backup clones or scratch disks as needed.. There are 4 more eSATA ports on the mother board, but maybe you brought those out already...

Bought it new, added RAM to bring it to 6 Gb, more than enough for my playtime...

Originally the graphics card had a bad fan, overheated, gave me a kernel panic as soon as it warmed up.. Apple replaced it... I've added the wifi card, more for testing than usage...

I made a stand for it so that as it sits on the floor next to the desk so the top is ¼" below the desk, then a piece of smoky Plexiglas lays on top, adds a workspace to my left to clutter up with the paperwork, the iBook, etc...

Very well built machine, well worth the $$ I put in it way back when...

the iStat widget will show you the tech stats of the fans, fre space, temps...

Enjoy!!

weco


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I've upgraded to a 'new' Mac...
By: oldCADuser in FFFT
Sat, 07 Jul 12 9:58 AM 		Msg. 44145 of 65535

Well, I've finally retired my old G5 Mac Pro Tower, replacing it with a 1st generation Intel-based Mac Pro Tower, which my son got from one of his customers who was upgrading to the latest Mac Pro Tower.

Despite it's 'vintage' (it's about 5 years old), it's still pretty powerful. It's a dual CPU, 2 x 2.66 Ghz Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors (four-cores total), with 16 GB memory. It has an NVIDIA Quadro 4500 512 MB (liquid cooled) graphics card (the same as what I had in my old G5). It came with 3 hard drives, two 1 TB drives striped as a raid configuration for the Mac side and a 500 GB drive with Windows loaded (it's configured as a dual-boot system, defaulted to the Mac OS, but it can be run as a native Windows 7 Pro box if I wish to). It also came with a new compact Apple keyboard. The only hardware I had to transfer was a PCI card which added a couple of eSATA ports for my external 2 TB hard drive. I also had to pay for some software upgrades but all totaled, it came to just over $650. Not bad considering what I've got (new this configuration would have been something over $4,000 + software).

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The most amazing thing is how quiet and cooler running this box is. The old G5 PowerPC was noisy and could heat a small room.

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