Hello makers.
Recently a 5,1 Mac Pro was donated to the space, I appointed myself with the task of making it an useful machine.
The Mac is a 6 core Xeon, 32gb or Ram, an ATI Radeon HD 5870 (2GB, with 6 video outputs!) And a 256GB sata SSD.
I’m donating the GPU, was in my private collection but this are dire times for GPU buyers.
Because none of GPU I own support Metal for Mac OS Mojave and we need a recent OS to run Fusion 360/Cura I decided to make Jobs roll in his grave and install windows 10.
And it’s absolutely flying.
It’s very stable and powerful, so much that I managed to play recent games at decent speed, SLMS favourite’s, Satisfactory, runs at 1080p 30 FPS on a medium/high quality setting buttery smooth, Fusion 360 it’s running without problems even with very complex geometries.
Now, it’s working, but what do we do with it ?
My idea is to set it up with a good screen and peripheral in the clean room and move the big iMac we have in Arc 2.
That’s because would be useful to have another machine in the second arc for people to Google things or even look at 3D design for the CNC without crossing the space, the imac is compact and self contained, the Mac Pro is big and honestly would be a shame to keep it for that task, this thing run circle around the iMac.
The other alternative is to set it up in the sofa area so we can use it for videogames and movies ?
I would like to hear more, I just don’t want it to be wasted in a time where computers are already hard to come by.
Also, as I donated time and resources, if this is going in private hands I will be taking back my parts, GPU and SSD.
Setup a render farm or miner. The space can make money out of that. Run it for sometime to have some numbers and see the viability of such farms/miners.
