slright do this idea came about before the new Mac Pro was announced but is still the theme for my build.
Back in the 90s, the top of the line Mac for certain workloads was actually a clone made by Daystar called the Genesis MP+ Costing an even $10,000. It had quad 604e COUs and was housed in an at the time giant case. Over the years I’ve acquired two of them. And it got me thinking.
If I were to make a modern day equivalent, what would it be?
I’ve purchased the case, a Thermaltake W100. I wanted Caselabs but they went out of business before I could buy.
I can’t justify the new XEON platform for cost so I’m looking at C299
I’ve narrowed it down to the EVGA X299 Dark, Asus Rampage Omega, or the Asus WS boards for X299
Ignoring cost at this point now I’d love feedback on which motherboard people think would fit the theme of what I’m trying to do. I will end up running MacOS on it in dual boot with Windows and know people have had success with Asus boards on the X299 platform.
All opinions welcome
Back in the 90s, the top of the line Mac for certain workloads was actually a clone made by Daystar called the Genesis MP+ Costing an even $10,000. It had quad 604e COUs and was housed in an at the time giant case. Over the years I’ve acquired two of them. And it got me thinking.
If I were to make a modern day equivalent, what would it be?
I’ve purchased the case, a Thermaltake W100. I wanted Caselabs but they went out of business before I could buy.
I can’t justify the new XEON platform for cost so I’m looking at C299
I’ve narrowed it down to the EVGA X299 Dark, Asus Rampage Omega, or the Asus WS boards for X299
Ignoring cost at this point now I’d love feedback on which motherboard people think would fit the theme of what I’m trying to do. I will end up running MacOS on it in dual boot with Windows and know people have had success with Asus boards on the X299 platform.
All opinions welcome