Mac pro teardown!

[Jagzz]

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Mac+Pro+Late+2013+Teardown/20778

 

I'm no mac user but i have to say, that's one beautiful computer.

The heatsink thingy is really interesting. Can't wait to see some thermal tests.

[megadarkwood]

Its the size of a freaking RAM DIMM

[mvitkun]

@Jagzz wait no more

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013/14

[Hans Christian | Teri]

It is an engineering marvel, thumbs up Apple.

[Jeroen1322]

Duudeee... That is sooo freaking small! ;O 

[Jagzz]

@Jagzz wait no more

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013/14

Damn you could fry an egg on that CPU

But i don't know much about professional video work. Would both of the GPUs and the CPU be used at the same time a lot? I mean, that power supply is at it's peak most of the time.

[afa7336]

Mmmm, that is sexy and damn fine piece of engineering. So compact.

[Bloodyvalley]

Duudeee... That is sooo freaking small! ;O 

That's what sheeeeeeeeee said

[Jeroen1322]

That's what sheeeeeeeeee said

OOOH SNAP!

[Butterfish]

That's what sheeeeeeeeee said

I feel sorry for you then bro

[Bloodyvalley]

I feel sorry for you then bro

It's okay, I'm just going to live with my sexual frustration until I die!

[mvitkun]

Damn you could fry an egg on that CPU

But i don't know much about professional video work. Would both of the GPUs and the CPU be used at the same time a lot? I mean, that power supply is at it's peak most of the time.

According to Anand with the cpu and gpu at max load it was still fine with little to no throttling with acceptable but pretty high temps,although usually while both would be in use either both would be near idle or one would be under an intensive, or more intensive load than the other.

 

In the real world scenarios it should be fine.

 

 

as for the power supply,in general a power supply made for servers and workstations can and will usually be tested to run at 100% 24/7,I doubt that Apple decided to cheap out on one of the most important pieces of hardware in their SFF workstation.

The fact that the power supply is able to be cooled by the system fan rather than its own dedicated fan should be taken as a sign of its quality/efficiency as it generated little excess heat or is tested to run at higher temps.So I wouldn't worry about it.

[Raj8396]

You can say whatever you want about apple and there is a lot to not like about them but the design and the compactness of this thing is so impressive and it would not have been possible without apple's philosophy of total control over everything. 

[ivhyn]

Although I'm quite the opposite of an Apple fan but I think this is nice engineering. They used the space adequately. 

[Raj8396]

Damn you could fry an egg on that CPU

But i don't know much about professional video work. Would both of the GPUs and the CPU be used at the same time a lot? I mean, that power supply is at it's peak most of the time.

 

if your program is not optimized for dual gpu on OS x then the second gpu just ideals and the first gpu does all the work but that might change in the future. Final cut pro is just one of the few applications that can take advantage of both gpu.

[JayWhyOkay]

I normally thought the Mac Pro was an absolute waste of money, but seeing this got me rethinking HAHAHA

It looks really small and compact, and I'm okay with the thermals as Anand's thermal tests, as he says, were not real world situations. I'm hoping that there won't be any throttling and it'll still be fine under a regular workload. The design is sexy af though