GPUs are fastened on both ends

As usual, IBM did it first.

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>4x Vega II
1KW+ alone right. Add in 28-core Incel and you have quite the housefire.

It was always this way, but it also means you can probably just flash the PC counterparts too just like you could for older Pros and G5s.
So is the PCI-E cage, it still fits standard cards. The board is just flipped upside down.
>fitting a gaming card in a workstation

I had a Mac Pro with an 8800 GT when that was a pretty good card

what's the difference

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It's flipped, so it'll block at least one PCI-e slot. Same shit from the old Pro and G5.
The design makes it so that to do an ATX mod in it will be piss easy. In 10 years, when they're dirt cheap, it'll probably be a fun weekend job.

You can just add a cheap bracket to hold up your GPU in a PC if you care about that shit

The options were pretty decent early on for sure, plus you had people twiddling around with the ROMs to let you flash non-standard cards. Dunno if any of those types still care about professional Mac systems anymore, the trashcan really killed that audience, and while this abortion is functionally superior in every way I'm still disappointed as fuck in it. I hope they facelift that awful cheese grater skin.
Certified drivers and better high-precision floating point performance, mostly. Most professional cards also have more memory hooked to an equivalent core than their GeForce/Radeon counterparts as well.
>>It's flipped, so it'll block at least one PCI-e slot. Same shit from the old Pro and G5.
Not sure what you mean by that, I've got all four slots filled in my G5 and I don't think the non-trashcan Pros are any different in this regard.
>The design makes it so that to do an ATX mod in it will be piss easy.
Yeah, you probably could, but why you would do that I really don't know. This thing is ugly as sin, but if it keeps destructive hipsters away from the dwindling supply of G5s and early Pros I guess I can make peace with it.

They don't gimp the fp64 performance in the drivers and firmware on enterprise cards.

Kvetching about people gutting old G5's seems dumb to be. There's a near infinite supply of the damn things. Let the kids have their fun, Goodness knows that even turning them into Fortnite and Twitch machines is still making more of use out of them than anyone keeping it with the original PPC chips.

Is that an at board?

XT.

>Need 4 slot cooler for AYYMD HOUSEFIRES

TOP KEK

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Reminds me of an old S100 bus system.

because the heat sinks don't have any fans on them, just case fans.

They made them in the millions, but the same goes for the millions of people with that closed "if it can't play video games and watch 1080p porn then it's literally useless" mindset which dwindles the supply over time. They're still machines that can perform billions of complex calculations in the blink of an eye with entire libraries' worth of storage and thousands of useful applications and development tools, there's plenty of useful things those systems can do if you feel so inclined to use them for those tasks.

But really, most G5/Pro mods just look like absolute garbage if the hipster in question even bothers to follow through with it. Most of the time they get in way over their head and just end up wasting their time and money on what is a quite lackluster and functionally inferior case anyway. Just buy a Lian-Li rip off and put a sticker on it. Even Apple's doing it now with this abomination.

Nothing new, that's what the plastic tabs on the left are for.

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Is it just me or is passive cooling in a high-performance workstation a terrible idea...

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Take a look at rack mount server guts, it's quite common

but rack servers have ultra-high airflow fans that sound like jet engines

Yeah, lmao. Good job picking the worst perf/W parto available.

Yeah but server processors typically run at pretty low frequencies. Apple doesn't have the best track record for thermals, I can't help but wonder if they done goofed again.

>shitloads of space in a more conventional form factor
>still cannot into cooling because memes

Apple: It Just Throttles

Not really interesting IMO, this was the norm back in IBM PC, 386 etc. days.

it looks so much like a cheese grater the first time I saw it I thought it was a joke.

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