Mac Pro 1,1 - Bought It To Upgrade But Now...
Hi all
I'm by no means a power user - I just got my Mac Pro back in '06 under the line of reasoning that I wanted the MP so I could upgrade it later on... specifically, the video card and maybe the processors eventually...
But now it looks like the only option for a video upgrade is the Radeon 4870 and upgrading the processor isn't really economically worthwhile...
As I said, not a power user - just someone who wanted more "ummph" than the iMac could give... how do others feel about this? Should I have gotten an iMac?
BTW, this is stemming from my discovery today that Starcraft II isn't even supported on my 7300GT... not even runs slow, just period not supported...
Thoughts?
-Justin
Hi
Took a quick peek around and it seems that (at Amazon, for instance), a single Xeon 5355 is ~$900... to me, this seems that upgrading the processors would not be cost-effective, as compared to just buying a new machine? Mainly because the new machine would bring so many other benefits, no?
Although, there does seem to be a wide range of prices - any idea why that is?
I'm not necessarily looking to tinker - I had just hoped to have more "official" options with video cards and such... everything about the MP is good for, it's just the video card...
On a side note - wondering if you can answer another question since you said you have a MP 1,1... is it still using the original 5150 processor? If so, are you able to measure the CPU power usage? I ask because mine draw a lot more power under recent revisions of OS X - naturally, this causes the temperature to go up lots...
Thanks again
-Justin
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blackyam...thank you for the ipico software. When I try to authorize my computer for it it says that I need to fill in the password for *******@yahoo.com. I can't seem to get it to work with my email and password. Do you know anything about this or do you know *******@yahoo.com's password?thx, Chris
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