Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

[shovenose]

Compare to: Mac Pro, DUal Xeon 5150, 6GB RAM, 750GB SATA shit.
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CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819116502
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820226261
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136929
Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129066
Disc: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827135204
PSU: Already have this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817703009
Graphics card: will either re use my GTX 550Ti 2GB or use Intel onboard.
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Total: $614.93

[c_hegge]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Avoid Antec cases, unless you want to replace or re-lube all of the fans in a few years time. That happened to my 1200. Nowadays, I'm quite partial to In Win cases

Also, what board do you plan on using? (Methinks this and this are good options)

Oh, and don't ruin that whole rig with Windows Hate

[shovenose]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157315
OS: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...hopHP_FPP_Null

[Gariarto]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/buy?ocid=GA8_O_WOL_Hero_ShopHP_FPP_Null[/url]

Haha ! I think he's messing with your head !!

[gerg]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Haha ! I think he's messing with your head !!

thats the kicker he is in love with win8 I haven't quite figured out why I am having a very hard time even liking it so far.

[mariushm]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

You can save about 80 dollars going for a FX-8350 instead of the Intel : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...84&Tpk=fx-8350

It will just be hotter and use a bit more power but otherwise, it will only be a couple of percents slower at most things that use 1-2 cores, and actually faster when it comes to heavily threaded stuff (like video encoding, rendering etc).

You can see review here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/t...-fx4300-tested

Besides, that 3770 is not the K version, so you won't be able to OC it. And you paired it with a shitty motherboard (when it comes to features). I'm not even sure you can use the onboard video with that chipset.

You could pair the cheaper amd with this 75$ board and still be cheaper than intel : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157280
Or even this 65$ board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128565

[shovenose]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

1. I don't care about Overclocking.
2. I don't really like AMD

Anyway if you thank that motherboard is shitty, which one would you recommend? Thank you.

[shovenose]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Avoid Antec cases, unless you want to replace or re-lube all of the fans in a few years time. That happened to my 1200. Nowadays, I'm quite partial to In Win cases

Also, what board do you plan on using? (Methinks this and this are good options)

Oh, and don't ruin that whole rig with Windows Hate

Those boards are so expensive, I don't want to spend so much.
How about?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130654

[shovenose]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

<nevermind>

[shovenose]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

<nevermind>

[mariushm]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

FX-8350 is 8 core already, what more do you want?

It smokes even that 3770k at video encoding and things that push those cores to the max, but performance per core is a bit below Intel processors.

I get it that you're an Intel fan, but might wanna change your "alliance" especially considering the price is so good.

I myself just moved from Intel Q6600 to an FX-8320, which is better than Intel 3570k and about 25$ cheaper here... as much as I wanted to go with Intel it made no sense, the only downside being more power consumption under load (but electricity is relatively cheap here so I don't care)

That H61 based motherboard is with a chipset that's "castrated", it has no sata 3, limited number of usb ports in the back, lousy ancient realtek sound chip and so on.

The one you last linked to above is with the B75 chipset, which is aimed to small businesses (in translation cheap computers for secretaries)... again a single pci express slot, limited usb ports, only ONE sata 3 port and 3 sata 2 ports, no overclocking ability... in theory the only benefits would be features like management from lan and crap like that.

Yeah, you say you won't overclock, that's fine.. but if you ever want to resell these on eBay they'll depreciate much faster than something a bit more expensive that hits more features.

One of the cheapest that would be worth getting is this one at 90$ (yeah, that's the price you pay for being Intel fan):

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157297

or maybe even this at $80:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157304

which is with Z75 chipset (about the same thing really)

You think the Intel CPU i5-2500K or AMD CPU FX-8350 is better? they are the same price.

FX-8350 is much better than 2500k, about 30-50% faster in most software ...

cpubenchmark says 6485 points for 2500k, fx-8350 has 9220... it's on par with Intel Core i7-3820 @ 3.60GHz at 9213 ... 3770 has 9459. So like I said, 3770 would be a few percents faster especially with software that uses 1-2 cores as the AMD processors are less powerful per core, but otherwise they're quite powerful.

[shovenose]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Well, I'm sorry, but I decided that if I'm buying a new computer I don't want it to be AMD. Even if it's supposedly a faster I want Intel. You can call me stupid but I convince everybody go to Intel over AMD I'm not about to use AMD myself.

I'm sort of hovering around these too now:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157304
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115233

[mariushm]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Well that's stupid, or immature. If someone comes up with a processor that's 4 times better than any AMD or Intel processor, you'd still recommend Intel just because?

You should recommend whatever's best bang for buck, or what suits the needs of that person, not what you personally like.

Anyway, not gonna add more to this, do whatever you want.

[shovenose]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Well that's stupid, or immature. If someone comes up with a processor that's 4 times better than any AMD or Intel processor, you'd still recommend Intel just because?

You should recommend whatever's best bang for buck, or what suits the needs of that person, not what you personally like.

Anyway, not gonna add more to this, do whatever you want.

Well, I understand your logic completely. It makes sense, believe me
Sometimes I want weird things, in this case Intel CPU. I mean, there is a reason that Intel's CPUs outsell AMD's!

[shovenose]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

OK so right now we're at:
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CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115233
RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820226261
Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157304
Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129066
HDD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136929
Disc: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16827135204
PSU: Already have
Graphics Card: Already have
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Subtotal: $514.94
Tax: $37.33
Shipping: $4.84
TOTAL: $557.11

[c_hegge]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Not bad. I probably would have gone with the MSI B75 board. MSI usually use Chemi-con or Samxon polies, as opposed to those Apaq firecrackers all over the ASRock.

[shovenose]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Nah, I don't mind Anything else you think I'm doing majorly wrong?

Edit: think that this graphics card is worth spending money on? How much better is it than my existing GTX 550 Ti 2GB PCI-Express?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121642

[Pentium4]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Yeah I would never buy an FX processor either. Ivy Bridge is pretty solid. My 7950 can max every game @ 1920x1080 no problem whatsoever and is very quiet and power efficient

[c_hegge]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

I wouldn't worry about the 7770 if yo have a 550 Ti. The difference in performance wouldn't be very significant.

[shovenose]

Re: Replacing my 2006 Mac Pro with something slightly better...

Sold my Mac Pro today for $750.
Going to the bank in about an hour, depositing a nice amount,
ordering new computer whenever the bank inputs everything
Also gonna go fight with them over the $46 of overdraft fees they stole from me.