Combining Mac Pros?

[Guest]

For work, we were thinking of selling our old Mac Pros that are sitting around (the big silver ones with dual drive loaders in the front).  We have about 3-4 lying around that we want to sell, and I want to know if it would be possible to combine them together.  If I remember correctly, the 2009 mac pro has a mobo with support for dual xeons, so could I take one out of another machine and put it in (they would be identical)?  Also, could I take a gpu from another mac pro and put it into the one I am using, and maybe dual crossfire the 5770?

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Honestly there wouldn't be much to gain. You can probably utilize them for distributed computing but anything else (and probably even that) will be a waste of time by today's standards.

[KemoKa]

For work you would be better off selling the Mac Pros and putting the money towards some workstation PCs with some really kickass hardware. Those Xeons are going to be pretty old. and really? a 5770? Do you understand how old that thing is?

It would be more worth your while to sell them and get new workstations. I'm sorry, but that's all I can say, because you won't be getting a new Mac Pro off of that. For content creation or whatever you could need Mac Pros for, solid workstation PCs are a huge boon. Unless you're working on something that absolutely requires a Mac to get done, that is your best bet.

My two cents

[Guest]

For work you would be better off selling the Mac Pros and putting the money towards some workstation PCs with some really kickass hardware. Those Xeons are going to be pretty old. and really? a 5770? Do you understand how old that thing is?

It would be more worth your while to sell them and get new workstations. I'm sorry, but that's all I can say, because you won't be getting a new Mac Pro off of that. For content creation or whatever you could need Mac Pros for, solid workstation PCs are a huge boon. Unless you're working on something that absolutely requires a Mac to get done, that is your best bet.

My two cents

Yep, completely ancient.  Just wanted to know if it would even be remotely worth thinking of, but I guess not.  We have already started replacing them with the new trashcan Mac Pros, we just have a few old things lying around:  3-4 2009 Mac Pros, 2 Powermac G5s, 1 Powermac G4.  

[KemoKa]

Yep, completely ancient.  Just wanted to know if it would even be remotely worth thinking of, but I guess not.  We have already started replacing them with the new trashcan Mac Pros, we just have a few old things lying around:  3-4 2009 Mac Pros, 2 Powermac G5s, 1 Powermac G4.  

Sell them for some good workstations. What do you do btw?

[Guest]

Sell them for some good workstations. What do you do btw?

This is my first summer working, so I only do basic graphics stuff.  Nothing worth mentioning.  Rest of the graphics team does some 3d rendering, Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.

[nicholician]

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