+- MacResource (https://forums.macresource.com)
+-- Forum: My Category (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=1)
+--- Forum: Tips and Deals (https://forums.macresource.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=3)
+--- Thread: Best Value Mac Pro? (/showthread.php?tid=147126)
Re: Best Value Mac Pro? - pRICE cUBE - 01-12-2013
Whatever Mac Pro you get, make sure the video card is at least a Radeon 5770 as newer versions of Pshop and filters are more GPU dependent.
Re: Best Value Mac Pro? - rz - 01-12-2013
My 2.8 Eight core Mac Pro (Early 2008 model) scored around 11,000 on the geekbench test.
Re: Best Value Mac Pro? - Buzz - 01-12-2013
Mr645 wrote:
Thanks, great link. I spent an hour combing over barefeats.com for this type of information
COMBING OVER
BEAR FEET
///
Re: Best Value Mac Pro? - pRICE cUBE - 01-12-2013
Lew Zealand wrote:
Geekbench suggests the current 2.6 Mac Mini is about as fast the the previous gen 3.4 iMac, which is simply not the case. Amazingly enough, geekbench is actually a worse benchmark than XBench is.
The iMac video card is going to be much better for GPU dependent apps.
Re: Best Value Mac Pro? - Mr645 - 01-12-2013
I can use that to compare the various Mac Pro's to each other. I can't afford an i7 iMac and the Mini GPU limits certain functions
Re: Best Value Mac Pro? - anonymouse1 - 01-12-2013
Can you upgrade your current MP CPUs? Add SSD?
Re: Best Value Mac Pro? - ka jowct - 01-12-2013
There are some upgrade reports at xlr8yourmac.
Re: Best Value Mac Pro? - bazookaman - 01-12-2013
Shoot. My 6 year old upgraded MacPro get s a 9291 geekbench score.
Re: Best Value Mac Pro? - Black - 01-12-2013
See above-- he's handing down the current mac- upgrade irrelevant.
Mr, I don't see a lot of options for you at that price point.
For $1,000 I think you're looking at that 2.8 you mentioned in the OP (will have to get lucky and find as far under $900 as you can)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-MacPro-Quad-Core-2-8GHz-8GB-RAM-A1186-500GB-HDD-Airport-Extreme-JLB-/271135286710?pt=Apple_Desktops&hash=item3f20ec25b6
and it would be sheer lunacy not to grab a 120 GB SSD to use as a boot drive.
Re: Best Value Mac Pro? - decay - 01-12-2013
does the 667 MHZ RAM speed inhibit performance?
current RAM is, what 1333 MHZ?