Re:Putting Apple’s iMac Pro Through the Paces
by FireBeyond on Sunday January 07, 2018 @03:20PM
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> $200 is not a good price for a PSU. 1000watt is absolutely unnecessary unless you need to power 3-4 GPUs.
For sure. I had this argument a few weeks before the iMac Pro came out with someone who insisted that it'd come with an 850W, more likely 1KW+ PSU...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15922978
iFixit's tear down? 500W PSU.
A slightly slower CPU can be had for a significantly lower price. GPUs are a lot more important to most workloads.
... But I didn't mention any of those.
The only reason for an expensive motherboard is to use multiple video cards.
>$200 is not a good price for a PSU. 1000watt is absolutely unnecessary unless you need to power 3-4 GPUs.
My point is that you can easily build a very similar system for half the price. This isn't the rattly '90s. $5000 is a lot for one PC.
If you want to shell out $3700 on PC components, you can build a much more powerful system, especially when you start putting in more GPUs.