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If you want to save some cash without needing 12GB of vRAM the Titan X offers, then you might want to look into other Nvidia cards, such as the GTX 980, 970, 760 or all these as Mac-flashed options (recommended). But for us, the 12GB of vRAM is what’s also helping our various 3D applications, so the card made sense for our particular needs.

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Keep in mind that the Titan X on a Mac Pro isn’t using the full PCIe V3 processing power the card is designed for. Although I was eyeballing the Titan Z ( B&H, Amazon), that card hogs up 3 PCI slots (and requires external power) where the Titan X uses 2 standard slots like most large GPU cards. One of the biggest selling points about this card is that it can use the Mac Pro’s existing power supply, rather than investing in external (and sometimes messy) power supplies. This allows the boot screen to function as well as a few other tasks. I almost opted for a standard Titan X card ( B&H, Amazon), but I decided to go with the Mac-flashed Titan X cards that MacVidCards modifies and sells. With the Titan X GPU upgrade, the system starts to become a true workstation to really churn through computational intensive processes.

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The 12-core CPU upgrade is only part of the equation. And at $550, it really seems like a no-brainer. In short, this upgrade bumps up the core speed of the Mac Pro 4,1 (early 2009 model) by leaps and bounds. My friend and super nice guy Erik Naso did an incredibly detailed how-to blog post on this very upgrade and I advise anyone interested in performing this upgrade to check out his blog post. With prices having dropped on these CPU upgrades, it made sense to finally bite the bullet. This 12-core CPU upgrade (and the GPU upgrade) were the main reasons for making the decision to even upgrade in the first place. 1 x HGST Deskstar 4TB Internal Hard Drive.2 x HGST Deskstar NAS 3.5-Inch 6TB 7200RPM SATA III 128MB Cache Internal Hard Drives.2 x Samsung 850 Pro 1 TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD.

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Sonnet Tempo SSD Pro Plus Storage Controller PCIe Card.

64GB DDR3 PC10600 1333MHz SDRAM (will add another 64GB for 128GB total).

Nvidia GTX Titan X 12GB GPU Card (Mac Flashed).

Dual-CPU 12-core 3.46GHz Xeon Processors.

It just made the most sense for us to go this route, as this would allow us to keep our PCIe slots and continue to expand our GPU power as technology grows. Even just a year ago this was a fairly expensive option but prices have really come down and computational power has increased. So this leaves a final alternative: upgrading our existing Mac Pro tower. In the end however, I do prefer the Mac operating system if given the choice. I admit, many of these licenses are starting to become floating, in that they can cross between platforms if need be.

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I do however have a number of software licenses that are specific to Mac and in preference I’d rather stick with OSX.

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So what about a Windows solution? We actually have some Windows boxes in our facility and I’ve never been opposed to using the Windows platform. All in all, the lack of upgradability with these new black Mac Pros has always been a big red flag. The Thunderbolt integration is fantastic (something I wish the Mac Pro tower could do), but even the Trashcan’s thunderbolt has limits with regard to using a PCIe expansion chassis. But frankly, I’ve always been a fan of Nvidia cards, so the ATI cards aren’t a selling point for me. Yes, those dual ATI cards pack a punch… for the time being. The lack of PCIe slots is a big problem for us, as are the non-upgradable graphics cards. The next problem was the lack of upgradability in these little black cylinders. The last time I dropped $10,000 on a computer workstation was back around 1996 on a Daystar Genesis MP800+ (a quad 200Mhz CPU Mac clone, at a time when clone makers were running performance circles around Apple).

For starters, the configuration I’d need (want) would be upwards in the $10,000 zone. But like many people, I was hesitant to jump on board. When the Mac Pro Trashcan was announced in 2013, I was pretty impressed with how much power was crammed in such a small package. Is this silver cheese grader of old still worthy of such a task? After many months of research, Marco Solorio of OneRiver Media decides to finally upgrade the master edit suite’s Mac Pro tower with new hardware to aid in the ever growing need for more power.