So Jow Forums seems to think that the new mac pro is just another LOL CRAPPLEL TAX I CAN BUILD A SIMILAR MACHINE FOR $250.
Alright. So put your money where your mouth is. Build an equivalent machine.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use PCPartPicker and any other resources at your disposal to build a machine that meets the following list of requirements. All hardware requirements include equivalent upgrade headroom. Nobody is expecting you to build a system like this for $6K, but you have to have the ability to upgrade to all of these:
>No more than $6000 before tax and shipping >28 cores (using current or current-1 gen Xeons or other server-tier chips) >1.5TB RAM (with 32GB in your build) >2x M2 slots (with one 256GB drive in your build, upgradeable to 4TB max) >1.4 kW PSU >No less than 4 "work" GPUs - No gaymer trash. You must include one (pro tier, non-gaymer) GPU, equivalent to a Radeon Pro 580X. For Nvidia, this would mean Quadras, not RTXes. >A total of 8 PCIe slots >Two 10Gb Ethernet ports must be in your build >Any combination of 6 thunderbolt or USB ports must be in your build >Enough cooling to allow the system to run at maximum CPU/GPU utilization, for arbitrary time periods without throttling or hitting TJMAX. This applies even if your machine is specced out to its maximum potential. >Cooling must be quiet enough to make the machine suitable for audio work. Absolute upper limit of 40dBA, ideally less. You can watercool if necessary - noise level is more important than how you get there. >Must include a Windows 10 Pro/Ent license, as a non-free OS is included in the price of the Mac and is what would be used by most people purchasing a non-Mac pro workstation.
Failing any single requirement, regardless of justification, means your build doesn't qualify.
Ignore Apple gimmicks or proprietary junk like the dual GPU, storage encryption, cheesegrater case, etc. Use any brands you want, so long as the specs match.
The base mac pro doesn't come with 4 gpus, it comes with one.
Hunter Collins
>fag pro needs to be configured to $50,000 to compete with a $6000 generic PC AAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Zachary Hernandez
>Nobody is expecting you to build a system like this for $6K, but you have to have the ability to upgrade to all of these: >No less than 4 "work" GPUs - No gaymer trash.
>You must include one (pro tier, non-gaymer) GPU, equivalent to a Radeon Pro 580X. For Nvidia, this would mean Quadras, not RTXes.
Jesus tittyfucking Christ you people are illiterate in addition to homosexual
Anthony Adams
>itoddler btfos themselves
Christopher Murphy
You would be hard pressed to not be able to find a board with 4 pci slots lmfao, that isn't hard to upgrade.
Blake Murphy
What part of "upgrade headroom" is your tripfag ass unable to comprehend?
>"upgrade headroom" Literally applel marketing bullshit excuse for putting out a $6000 shitheap that gets destroyed by $1000 custom PCs. Upgrade the mac to a real usable workstation configuration and it instantly costs 10X what a real workstation would cost.
>macroddler has $6000 budget >can't have more than 256GB storage AAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Hunter Stewart
Then get to building on that equivalent configuration if it's so easy.
> Nobody is expecting you to build a system like this for $6K, but you have to have the ability to upgrade to all of these.
That system that built? Yeah, it blows the $6K config out of the water. It also is completely maxed out and won't ever be able to have more than 256 gig of memory, etc, etc.
yea ok, the posted build has no headroom. that's because it's already a fully upgraded system that is STILL below the base price-point of your "upgrade headroom"-filled shitty mac. you could buy 4 of these systems and still come out WAY fucking ahead compared to buying your new imac and then loading up on the upgrades.
Dominic Hernandez
Uh... you realize it comes with 256 gig out of the box and you can replace that drive and add another right? The max the board supports if 4TB.
see >That system that built? Yeah, it blows the $6K config out of the water. It also is completely maxed out and won't ever be able to have more than 256 gig of memory, etc, etc.
Samuel Phillips
I thought it was only upgradeable to 2 dual-gpu cards, not 4 separate cards. The vega 2 cards they were talking about are like the 295x2. I mean, how the fuck would you fit 4 cards in that tiny thing?
Easton Flores
>muh not a real workstation
Not an argument. You're paying $6K for low-to-middling specs with the ability to upgrade it to fuckstupid specs without the need for multiple machines or dust-buster cooling configurations.
So far, all you niggers have done is shit on the base config without being able to build something that's equivalent in all ways.
I said GPUs, not cards. If the mac can fit 4 GPUs and user's $1K gaymer build can only fit 2, that's a point in the mac's favor.
Hunter Gutierrez
>You're paying $6K for low-to-middling specs MACTODDLER BTFO HIMSELF AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
i mean.. he acknowledged it in like the third paragraph of the op....your really just proving him right
Austin Barnes
This whole thread ignores what truly matters. At around $6k you're pretty much no longer worried about price. What's the difference between $6k and $7k to a person who can slam that much coin and not blink?
At that point it comes down to preference rather than cost.
Angel Brooks
OP I have a sneaking suspicion you work for PCPartPicker and this thread serves as some kind of psy-op test to see how it impacts your views.
Cameron Rogers
see
Cameron Hill
who cares what Jow Forums thinks? we are not apple's target demographic. production studios will drop big money on mixing desks/render farms/whatever, if they think it makes their creative talent a bit more productive
Christopher Ross
this thread proves that satania posters are actually newfags from /v/
It's 4 GPUs on 2 cards. The dual-GPU cards from AMD aren't released yet, so it's impossible to configure any computer that way currently.
Andrew Brooks
I'm surprised for how many slots can accept the mac pro. My dual Xeon Dell T7810 hasn't as many has the Mac Pro has,
Ayden Miller
Point taken. I disagree about it being about "preference" though.
My colleagues in their allcaps, illiterate ways have proven that yes, you can build a machine that beats the base config mac pro (not just beats it, completely fucking thrashes it) and spend less money. I'd also be willing to bet those systems are noisy as fuck and will wind up being replaced in 5 years or so, when I can take the same goddamn system here, put a newer CPU and double the memory in, and keep going. It's an investment.
I mean, the idea that you're paying more for aesthetics (both visually and aurally) and upgradeability isn't exactly unheard of. If I didn't care about upgradeability, I'd buy an AIO or a laptop.
Isaac Gonzalez
based
Joshua Hernandez
Which is why the OP requirements were for upgradeability to 4 GPUs. Surely there has to be a server board out there somewhere with four PCIe x16 slots?
Thomas Sanchez
>and it instantly costs 10X what a real workstation would cost t. never seen the prices of a real workstation
Dylan Moore
And your maxes out at 28 cores while a build that costs an order of magnitude less has 32. Your whole point is that at around 25k$ you can get more in one metric, but for 6k$ you get more in another.
Aiden Hughes
That's why Xeons overclock better when they can, right?
Anthony Scott
>overclock >Xeon Why would you do this?
Juan Sullivan
So a mactoddler seems to think that he belongs on Jow Forums.
Alright. So put your money where your mouth is. Build an equivalent machine.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use Apple.com and any other resources at your disposal to build a machine that meets the following list of requirements. All hardware requirements include equivalent upgrade headroom. Nobody is expecting you to build a system like this for $6K, but you have to have the ability to upgrade to all of these:
>No more than $6000 before tax and shipping >28 cores (using current or current-1 gen Xeons or other server-tier chips) >3TBTB RAM (with 32GB in your build) >2x M2 slots (with one 256GB drive in your build, upgradeable to 48TB max)
The correct rebuttal should have been >no centralized support >scatered parts of different vendors Even the companies that buy custom made pc's prefeer to buy the services of Piaget Systems before attemping to deal with the pieces themselves.
Connor Hughes
I'm seeing a lot of insults, but zero configuration builds. >wintoddler This has no T2 chip, you can install Linux on it unlike with Macs.
You're a wintoddler, so please leave. Linux is merely a kernel.
Cooper Rodriguez
how can mactoddlers even compete?
Luke Stewart
We'll know more once the system launches and we know how much the fully specced system is, but even I'm not gay enough to buy all those parts straight from apple. I can find 128GB ECC sticks a lot cheaper than what Apple will charge for them.
Lemme explain something here. I'm typing this from a Windows machine, surrounded by three other Linux machines. It represents about 32GHz, 256GB RAM, and a few terabytes of storage. I'm using every one of these machines for various virtual machines. Some work, some pro. It's not unpleasantly loud, but it's rather noisy. Most of these machines are maxed out and literally can't be upgraded. I need more compute or memory, I have to literally go buy or build a new fucking computer, connect it to the cluster, and so on.
If I were to drop $6K, on this thing and probably another $1K on aftermarket upgrades, I could turn off every one of these machines and be sitting pretty when I need more compute or memory. And my room wouldn't sound like Lain's room.
Dylan Green
The Z8 is more expensive.
Robert Brown
>Windows machine How is the weather in Bombay anyway?
Isaac Jones
OP BTFO
Colton Lee
What part of "upgrade headroom" is your mactoddler brain unable to comprehend?
Jonathan Cruz
Err.. you can install lInux on macs. You just have to disable the boot security meme.
Do you also ask Macbooks to stop throttling. You are asking impossible shit to begin. No machine with 3 TB of RAM will cost 6000 before tax >you can install linux That's not an advantage for me at least.
Cameron Cooper
Oh look, another macnigger that doesn't know what the words "3TB Max" and "upgrade headroom" mean.
I don't use Windows. You're conjecturing out of nowhere.
Oh cool, I'm glad they added this.
No, I won't. Again, conjecture. But wait you can't? Lmao great I can boot a USB pen.
Kayden Russell
Okay, you guys win. Jow Forums has actually fulfilled their mission in blowing me the fuck out. Also, I love the taste of cock, it's fucking delicious and I'm gay.
Alright Mactoddler. So put your money where your mouth is. Build an equivalent Mac.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to use Applel and any other resources at your disposal to build a Mac that meets the following list of requirements. All hardware requirements include equivalent upgrade headroom. Nobody is expecting you to build a system like this for $6K, but you have to have the ability to upgrade to all of these:
>No more than $3000 before tax and shipping >28 cores (using current or current-1 gen Xeons or other server-tier chips) >3TB RAM (with 16GB in your build) >2x M2 slots (with one 256GB drive in your build, upgradeable to 48TB max)
>you can install Linux on macs No, you can't. Booting an external device is not installing.
You're the one moving goalposts. I said "install", not "boot an external device". Running linux on a pen is not the same as installing linux, but I don't blame a mactoddler for not understanding the difference.
John Wright
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Carson Rogers
Ok, I read bad. But isn't the Mac Pro limited to 1.5 because, at the time, there isn't DDR4 RAM modules so dense to begin? I will not suprised if the Mac Pro reaches 2 or 3 TB in the future. The 5.1 reached 128 easily, even though officially it only supported 64 gb.
Benjamin Lee
Isn't actually me. That machine is *really fucking close*, but still falls short in a couple of ways:
* Short 1 GPU max (maxes out at 3) * The slots are close enough together that it's going to severely limit your GPU selection and probably block other ports * Short 1 PCIe slot * Short 1 M2 slot * No way in hell it's as quiet * It's fucking HP and probably has dogshit support
48TB memory max and that core cout is really fucking impressive though. Good find.
The Mac Pro is cheaper and has similar headroom. It also supports a decent OS well. The Z8 requires you to use Nvidia's shitty GNU drivers.
Carter Williams
Granted. You can't install Linux on a Mac, at least no in the Apple T2 tied SSD module. But its not because the chip blocks the attempt to install Linux.
Josiah Brown
Bruuuh Y'all are missing the point these are for companies that could not give a shit about price, Apple aren't selling these to you, they want the warranty, engineering, aesthetic etc.
