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MacPro 8 Core Cheese Grater

Posted by: twocargar on 2021-01-26 14:48:40 At work they were going to recycle an old MacPro cheese grater tower. 8 core Xeon.  I asked my boss if I could have it and he said yes!  It’s now my Plex server. Great machine-even better that it was free!  Lots of good videos on how to upgrade them. Now I need to get rid of my PowerMac G5, which is in the trading post.

Posted by: Rick Dangerous on 2021-01-26 16:47:44 8 core....very nice. How much RAM? Video card? Sweet deal hard to argue with free.

Posted by: twocargar on 2021-01-27 01:26:17 Thanks. It looks like it's pretty much stock and I just bought a USB 3 card for it.

Posted by: OleLila on 2021-01-27 02:29:19 I have this machine and use it a lot; its been great; running OS Catalina with dosDude patch and windows 10 from SSD's. Upgraded the video card with Radeon 580....no boot screen but works great.

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