- Joined
- Nov 7, 2016
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- Motherboard
- Gigabyte X299 Designare
- CPU
- i9-7940X
- Graphics
- Vega FE
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Well.. XEON motherboard, until now do not have TB3, the 2666Mhz ECC DRAM, will be slower then the 3200-4000MHZ is "normal" DRAM, the XEON processor will be north the 20% pricier, stability on X299 for "all day long work" is excellent (I do not have crashes or system reboot even working on 6 opened MACOS programs + Parallel Virtual machine + Altium Designer (Electronic 3D CAD under windows 10 pro 64 bit and very heavy electronic board) all day long... even with overclocking DRAM the stability is not one issue....Sorry, some Skylake-X processors already nearly perform natively and therefore also seem to be close enough to the future iMac Pro processors. However I did never mention that Apple will ever "officially" support this CPU type. I am also aware that Skylake-X does not support ECC memory.
The rest already has been answered by @rolandino above in post #2281..
I think ECC will be useful if you need simulating models that runs days.... but then... this will a important "company work" and then ....would it be best to "spare some money" for one Hackintosh or would it be better to spend some more for full Apple quality?
I guess in this last scenario the long simulations will be by far more important and valuable than the workstation alone ;-)).