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Originally Posted by edgeprod
Why is that bad? My last Mac Pro desktop was $4,200, and has lasted me since 2009. I'm only upgrading to stay current, all of my apps still run lightning quick with only dual Xeons (8 cores) and 12GB of RAM in this machine.
I'll be going for the $4,000 option and upgrading to the dual AMD FirePro D700. That's 12GB of VRAM total, 2048 stream processors, 384-bit-wide memory bus, 264GB/s memory bandwidth, and 3.5 teraflops performance.
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My quad core PC was built in 08-09. It still works fine. In the time I owned it which was up until 3 months ago the only thing I ever had to do to it, was change out a HD. The PC cost me about $1200 to build. I ended up giving it to my step father and he uses it now.
If lasting and still being reliable count, seems I saved myself $2,800 on my PC.. However at the same time , well actually 1 year after I built the PC, I bought a iMac.. it cost over $2k and it lasted maybe 1.5 years before it was a over sized door stop... It lasted just long enough for the warranty to expire.