Congratulations?

[jj]

Hi Wayne,

Glad to see you post every  6 months or so

Site is less shouty but also a lot more quiet.  Very few people ever logged in at once these days.

Will admit to spending more time on EAB these days.

Still love you all though

[Iggy]

Who's Wayne?...
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Just joshing...
My view is things are decidedly, positively quiet now.
Need Franko and Magnetic back online.

That could liven things up.

[save2600]

Hey Wayne, nice to see 'ya!

[trekiej]

Hello.

[Wayne]

Hey guys (and gals)...

Since about 2010, I've been bouncing around due to the economy and needing to take work where I could find it.  First, at Maxwell AFB in Alabama, then working for the USMC in Norfolk, VA, now I find myself living and working in the D.C. area.  Not my ideal location, but at least they have an Alamo Drafthouse..

Sadly, I very rarely even think about the Amiga (or retro computing in general) any more because I'm always busy building new stuff for work.  I'm the only MCSE that you will ever meet who truly hates Microsoft and all things Microsofty..

About the only thing that could qualify as geeky for me recently is that I built an Intel i7/4Ghz Hackintosh (PC running MacOS X) with 32 gigs of RAM, 2 27" 1440p monitors, and a terabyte SSD.

Just got Thunderbolt working so I could move my 34 TB RAID Array over to it..

It's very, very sweet...  Here's the build and pics.

http://whyzzat.com/threads/building-a-hackintosh-lessons-learned-so-far.27889/

Wayne

[Acill]

Hey guys (and gals)...

Since about 2010, I've been bouncing around due to the economy and needing to take work where I could find it.  First, at Maxwell AFB in Alabama, then working for the USMC in Norfolk, VA, now I find myself living and working in the D.C. area.  Not my ideal location, but at least they have an Alamo Drafthouse..

Sadly, I very rarely even think about the Amiga (or retro computing in general) any more because I'm always busy building new stuff for work.  I'm the only MCSE that you will ever meet who truly hates Microsoft and all things Microsofty..

About the only thing that could qualify as geeky for me recently is that I built an Intel i7/4Ghz Hackintosh (PC running MacOS X) with 32 gigs of RAM, 2 27" 1440p monitors, and a terabyte SSD.

Just got Thunderbolt working so I could move my 34 TB RAID Array over to it..

It's very, very sweet...  Here's the build and pics.

http://whyzzat.com/threads/building-a-hackintosh-lessons-learned-so-far.27889/

Wayne

Very nice, I got lucky and was able to put in two prototype 6 core processors I got at while working at Intel into my 2010 Mac pro. Both are 4Ghz and I have 32GB of RAM as well. My video card is a custom flashed 12GB Titan X. AMAZING card. I also have a 1TB PCIe solid state drive (again thanks to the great deals from work) and a 12TB sinology NAS I use as my media server. Its about as maxed as you can get in this version of the Mac Pro now. Lucky it still blows away the current model in benchmarks, but not for long I am sure. Booting into Windows X and using it to game is a dream as well as running the games I can in OS X. The WOW Legion Beta for example supports metal on this card and runs at full ultra over 100FPS without a stutter.

[Wayne]

Very nice, I got lucky and was able to put in two prototype 6 core processors I got at while working at Intel into my 2010 Mac pro. Both are 4Ghz and I have 32GB of RAM as well. My video card is a custom flashed 12GB Titan X. AMAZING card. I also have a 1TB PCIe solid state drive (again thanks to the great deals from work) and a 12TB sinology NAS I use as my media server. Its about as maxed as you can get in this version of the Mac Pro now. Lucky it still blows away the current model in benchmarks, but not for long I am sure. Booting into Windows X and using it to game is a dream as well as running the games I can in OS X. The WOW Legion Beta for example supports metal on this card and runs at full ultra over 100FPS without a stutter.

That does indeed sound like a sweeeeeet system.  I was just kind of restricting myself money wise because I didn't know if (or how well) the whole Hackintosh thing would work.  I have a 3.4ghz i7 iMac but wanted multiple monitors, which meant Mac Pro or nothing...

I'd still prefer to have a Mac Pro than a roll-my-own solution (upgrades to the OS are nail biters), but who's got $10k to sink into a machine and monitors?  Seriously...

As for the subject of Amiga.org, if you talk to anyone over on whyzzat, they'll tell you how -- about once a year -- I whine about missing running AO (but how I don't miss the melodrama and trolling) and how I talk about putting up various sites (including a new Amiga site), but never, well, almost never get around to doing anything because someone always reminds me that it would be like inviting all the drama back into my world...

Wayne

[som99]

Hello Wayne

[Acill]

You can get the previous generation Mac Pro towers for a great price still if you look. Its a straight forward upgrade to put in a new CPU (have to get a used one on ebay, but still good) and a standard PC GTX 980 will work if you don't care about the boot screen showing up. Just be sure and get a Mid 2010 or 2012 model so you have the better bus speed logic boards. As for processors you can often get a used HP server with the Xeons in them for less than the bare CPU.

[Iggy]

You can get the previous generation Mac Pro towers for a great price still if you look. Its a straight forward upgrade to put in a new CPU (have to get a used one on ebay, but still good) and a standard PC GTX 980 will work if you don't care about the boot screen showing up. Just be sure and get a Mid 2010 or 2012 model so you have the better bus speed logic boards. As for processors you can often get a used HP server with the Xeons in them for less than the bare CPU.

I never thought of that.
I built a dual Xeon quad core system based on an Intel server board, but I had not considered used Apples.
There is a nice 12 core Mac Pro on eBay right now.

[Acill]

I did an upgrade on a friends Mac Pro not long ago from a single 4 core xeon to a dual 6 core 3.46 X5690 for under $300. I found an empty CPU board on ebay and got the two processors out of an HP server for $100.

I dont think a lot of people realize that a Mac Pro is built using a lot of standard server hardware. Its easy to replace a CPU on them.

Here is an example, get this for under $300 : http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-XW8600-Workstation-2x-Intel-Xeon-3-33-GHz-X5260-4GB-RAM-320GB-HD-/231925383397?hash=item35ffd480e5:g:wPYAAOSw3ydVnRyL

Instead of this for $750 : http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-CORE-3-33GHz-Mac-Pro-CPU-Processor-UPGRADE-4-1-5-1-2009-2010-2012-WARRANTY-/231503138441?hash=item35e6a98e89:g:RpMAAOSwqu9VALG8

[bbond007]

Hi Wayne! good to see you!

I have several fake macs. I put them in every room to operate the TVs.

Palmer Lucky can bite me.....

Several of my fake macs (like my flaghship one with two liquid cooled r9 290x GPUs) could easily run Oculus Rift software...

[Wayne]

I did an upgrade on a friends Mac Pro not long ago from a single 4 core xeon to a dual 6 core 3.46 X5690 for under $300. I found an empty CPU board on ebay and got the two processors out of an HP server for $100.

I dont think a lot of people realize that a Mac Pro is built using a lot of standard server hardware. Its easy to replace a CPU on them.

Here is an example, get this for under $300 : http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-XW8600-Workstation-2x-Intel-Xeon-3-33-GHz-X5260-4GB-RAM-320GB-HD-/231925383397?hash=item35ffd480e5:g:wPYAAOSw3ydVnRyL

When you say "upgrade on a friend's mac pro" do you mean the old aluminum one, or the new trash can?

If the older, I'm very curious as to what I'd need to look out for on ebay to complete the same, and whether or not you might have benchmarks on the new box like I did on my hack build?

I was under the impression that the old Mac Pros couldn't take the newer CPUs and stuff (simple age of the motherboard compatibility issues)

Wayne