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They do take up quite a bit of space, so I have them on the carpet. Also, I really simply just don't have a need for a desktop that large anymore. Picking them up by the handles can be painful, especially at 50lbs each. Also, I never understood why Apple still had to use their own proprietary 6 pin connector on the motherboard. Also, I have multiple GPUs in my twin 2006 Woodcrest models, and it's great, but I've always found plugging in the 6 pin GPU power connectors to the motherboard a pain.
Woodcrest mac video card flickering mac#
With that said, it's HDD storage, which is so slow (even at 7500rpm) after using my cylinder Mac Pro. I use 2 for my small home music studio, and can store gigabytes upon gigabytes of audio samples, virtual instruments, and effects locally. Really love the fact that I was able to cram a good amount of 3.5 inch HDD local storage into them. Still, for a crazy 'cored-up' system, being able to take dual Xeon E7s would be cool (I definitely don't need anywhere near that amount of CPU computer power, though) Single CPU support that the cylinder has is probably ok when looking at the core counts you can get with Xeon E5-v4, but the cylinder never made it past Xeon E5-v2. Is there a technical reason why Apple likes to use its own NGFF standard? In addition, I I'd really like to still make use of 2.5 inch SATA SSDs, and I wish the cylinder had internal space for these. I'd like many more NGFF slots, preferably M.2 instead.
Woodcrest mac video card flickering upgrade#
I constantly struggle to keep at least 10GB free, but because I only also have 16GB of memory(need to upgrade desperately), virtual memory eats too much space constantly for my regular workloads. I currently have only the 256GB SSD, and it drives me nuts. I also hate the single, Apple proprietary NGFF SSD slot on one of the GPUs. I'm sure there are good ways to make a custom graphics card design (like Apple does for the cylinder) that can be easily swapped out for an upgraded GPU/graphics card with a sleeker heat sink/heat spreader/fan design.
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A workstation usually should run its GPUs on stock clocks anyway, in my opinion. I don't think I'm too bothered with not being able to put standard PCIe GPUs in the cylinder, as some of the coolers on aftermarket PCIe cards (eVGA, Gigabyte, MSI, you name it) are overly large for additional thermal room for overclocking.
Woodcrest mac video card flickering pro#
I *think* I've come to the conclusion that I really like the cylindrical Mac Pro a lot, but I hate that I cannot upgrade the twin graphics cards with high performance (and consequentially, high TDP) parts provided by Apple (because they haven't provided any of course). I've been asking myself that by reflecting on what I like and dislike about various desktop Macs that I have around my house (namely 2006 cheese grater Mac Pros, 2013 cylindrical Mac Pro, PowerMac G4 MDD and Cubes). I'm curious though, what would be absolute minimums for you guys (whether individually or generally in your industry/circles)? One or two sockets, one or two slots, storage, RAM, etc?