How many people here use an old Mac Pro? What do you use it for? What model is it, and have you upgraded anything in it?
I'm a video editor, I make TV commercials. I want to upgrade my 2010 mac pro with more RAM, SSD's and a new GPU, ideally the 980 Ti, but I'm not sure how to maintain compatibility with 10.6.8, which is important since our legacy projects are in Final Cut Pro 7 (we are now using premiere to edit and fcpx for media management).
Constantly switching out graphics cards sounds like an enormous hassle.
>>54745002
You've got 4 PCIe 2.0 slots.
No need to swap cards.
>>54745429
Actually, it's just 3 - an x16 for the GPU, an x8 for my external RAID, and an x4 for a video capture card - and I want to free up the x4 to get a joint SSD/eSATA card too.
>>54745002
I've been looking at 2008 / 2009 models because they're cheap and I need OpenCL for something. The old towers seem like the cheapest way to do GPGPU on a Mac because you can throw in any modern card.
>>54745002
>Mac
nice meme
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>>54746189
I hate Apple as much as the next /g/entooman but the old Mac Pro is a legitimately good machine, especially for what OP is using it for
It's the new trashcan that's prosumer shit
>>54745002
>ideally the 980 Ti
This may prove to be an issue for you because you may not have enough amps on your GPU's rail.
It might be possible to use two rails if you get a card with two PCI-E power connectors.
