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Re:New Mac Pro by vbezhenar on Monday June 03, 2019 @06:18PM (#20089522)
Prices from newegg

    SuperMicro 5039A-i        730
    Xeon W-2145              1175
    4x8GB ECC RAM $74 x 4 =   296
    AMD Radeon RX 480         415
    SAMSUNG 970 PRO 512GB     160
    Total:                   2776
So Apple charges more than x2. And if one would use Ryzen and consumer GPU, price would be massively reduced.
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Re:New Mac Pro by rhinoceraptor on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @12:54PM (#20096859)
The CPUs they're using are Cascade Lake, not Skylake. So I'd add at least about $500 there. You'll also need to add ~$300 for the giant 1400 watt PSU, and at least $500 for the custom cooling solution and case. Most PC cases are really not built that well.
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Re:New Mac Pro by vbezhenar on Friday June 07, 2019 @03:14AM (#20122329)
Where did you get that $500 increase? Intel doesn't increase prices between generations, at least not that much. If anything, they could even reduce the price to have a chance to compete with new Threadrippers.
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Re:New Mac Pro by rhinoceraptor on Tuesday June 11, 2019 @04:47PM (#20159376)
The $500 came from the new chips, plus the motherboard Apple is using is much higher spec than the SuperMicro.

It's got 8 full length PCIe slots, and two of those are the MPX slots so it's effectively 10 if you use MPX cards. It has dual 10gb NICs, and two TB3 ports.

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