Best Value Mac Pro?

[pRICE cUBE]

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.

[rz]

My 2.8 Eight core Mac Pro (Early 2008 model) scored around 11,000 on the geekbench test.

[Buzz]

Mr645 wrote:
Thanks, great link. I spent an hour combing over barefeats.com for this type of information

COMBING OVER



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[pRICE cUBE]

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.

[Mr645]

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

[anonymouse1]

Can you upgrade your current MP CPUs? Add SSD?

[ka jowct]

There are some upgrade reports at xlr8yourmac.

[bazookaman]

Shoot. My 6 year old upgraded MacPro get s a 9291 geekbench score.

[Black]

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-Qua...e_Desktops&hash=item3f20ec25b6
and it would be sheer lunacy not to grab a 120 GB SSD to use as a boot drive.

[decay]

does the 667 MHZ RAM speed inhibit performance?

current RAM is, what 1333 MHZ?