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The new Mac Pro brought something to light. There are many that are willing to vouch their configured computers are capable of the levels a computer processing workstation is capable of...
But I sometimes tend to disagree, given the precision processing one would have to account for. But I do agree that I would be inclined to build one of my own, for much cheaper, more custom oriented, and much like a gaming PC or typical PC, can be easily had... This is coming from someone who had used (not ideal but workable) HD7970s to display AutoCAD workspaces - and noticed over time display artifacts, and sometimes measurements and dimensions being off over time.
Problem is, most of the current Xeon boards are ATX (and larger). Problem as well, most Xeon boards are of the rackmount variety. There are few vendors that would make something as compact as a Xeon mATX or mITX board.
The ONLY thing I can find that maybe even close, would be using the X79 LGA2011 ASUS Rampage IV Gene. But there isn't any shown official support for Xeons, let alone the final memory validation of ECC support.
No where near in a buying position. But I am curious why a compact Xeon single CPU socket solution doesn't exist (save from OEM builders). But I should already know this answer - there isn't a market for user built precision workstations. Most likely, those machines are batched ordered from companies that can leverage a cheaper contracted support solution.
But I sometimes tend to disagree, given the precision processing one would have to account for. But I do agree that I would be inclined to build one of my own, for much cheaper, more custom oriented, and much like a gaming PC or typical PC, can be easily had... This is coming from someone who had used (not ideal but workable) HD7970s to display AutoCAD workspaces - and noticed over time display artifacts, and sometimes measurements and dimensions being off over time.
Problem is, most of the current Xeon boards are ATX (and larger). Problem as well, most Xeon boards are of the rackmount variety. There are few vendors that would make something as compact as a Xeon mATX or mITX board.
The ONLY thing I can find that maybe even close, would be using the X79 LGA2011 ASUS Rampage IV Gene. But there isn't any shown official support for Xeons, let alone the final memory validation of ECC support.
No where near in a buying position. But I am curious why a compact Xeon single CPU socket solution doesn't exist (save from OEM builders). But I should already know this answer - there isn't a market for user built precision workstations. Most likely, those machines are batched ordered from companies that can leverage a cheaper contracted support solution.
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