- #How to use mac pro tower as a monitor full size
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I love apple’s OS and support for multi channel audio and midi that runs circles around windows, quicktime, stability on so on, but the trashcan is a classic case of over-design for the sake of style.īut if I had one I’d definitely grab an atdec hex stand and light all 6 of those puppies up!įor now my 5,1 is lighting up 10 screens (oh yeah I slapped a matrox dvi triple head on the 680 which lets you hang 3 displays off of one connector), so that’s 10 screens 12 cores, 64gb ram, and way less wallet drain!Īpple! – Bring back a professional enclosure for a professional computer!!!! Just because you can cram it all in a small cylinder doesn’t mean you should.
#How to use mac pro tower as a monitor plus
So – that’s eight displays from 3 cards plus a spare slot for a card or a more securely connected expansion chassis, 4k support, display port, hdmi, and dvi for thousands less than a trashcan with 6 displays, picked up some hex core xeons on ebay for a couple hundred and it can outperform many stock trashcan macs.
#How to use mac pro tower as a monitor update
(was hoping for 3 displays per gpu on the 730s like the PC but it seems the mac driver will only light up 2 ports, but they are single slot and slot powered) – only issue is you have to sometimes pull the cards after an update to get the latest nvidia driver or you get stuck in a boot loop. And oh yeah, $$$$ for a good expansion chassis (startech – I am looking at you – give us something a step up from your current chassis with 4 PCIe slots at a good price please, and make them chainable).Ī pair of evga stock (not mac flashed) GT730s
#How to use mac pro tower as a monitor full size
Very cool btw to have 6 out of the box, and props for the pic and pimpin out the rig, so please allow me to digress & vent at apples design department: the trashcan form factor is not what professionals need, and thunderbolt cables to your expansion chassis have sketchy cable retention – your entire protools rig or video processing cards or in my case an RME RayDat is hanging off a single cable with no solid cable locking mechanism (say what you want about thumb-screws, but my displays never glitch out because my DVI connectors loosen up over the long term), thunderbolt should at least lock like a full size display port connector does if your entire PCIe bus is hanging off of it.
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