- Joined
- Aug 2, 2011
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- Motherboard
- X299 Designare EX
- CPU
- i9-7980XE
- Graphics
- Vega 64
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
I have a 2009 Mac Pro with:
Should I keep trying to breathe more power into the old gal or should I go for a new Mac Pro? It's a lot of money to upgrade, much more so to get a whole new mac.
- 2010+ CPU tray -- 12 cores at 2.66GHz
- 128 GB of OWC RAM
- Mirrored 1TB SSDs on Marvell based PCIe card
- 16 TB of disk space configured in RAID 10 (8 TB usable) on the built-in SATA trays
- 12 TB external RAID 5 storage on a RocketRaid 640 card
- Radeon 6870 HD Video card
- 4 port USB 3 card
- Upgrade to Sierra
- ARECA SAS card ARC-1883ix-24 replacing the 2 SATA cards
- Adding an Apple 802.11AC wifi/bluetooth card in the spare PCIe slot -or- an M.2 card
- Upgrading the Video to an Nvidia 1080 card
- Add 6 more 1TB SSDs for a 4TB RAID 10 (bootable I hope)
- 3.33GHz CPU upgrades
Should I keep trying to breathe more power into the old gal or should I go for a new Mac Pro? It's a lot of money to upgrade, much more so to get a whole new mac.