Replacing an almost 8 year old iMac Pro and I’m the only heathen in the building at work who refused a Mac Studio Ultra. It’s a creator system before I get people throwing rocks at me for using intel… disclaimer: my home build is AM5. Monitor is an Alienware AW3225QF OLED, that will be paired with an existing 24” Eizo panel. The dock is a Sonnet Echo 20 thunderbolt 4 dock. Yes, I know the speakers are the cheapest I could find…
Total storage will be 16TB with 6 TB coming from 2 and 4tb crucial PCIE 5.0 drives. Only one of those can run at PCIE 5.0 speeds so still deciding whether it should be the T705 or the T700 4TB, in order to run both at PCIE 5.0 speeds I needed a £1,300 ASUS board…. over my boss’s dead corpse. The two SATA 4TB drives will be RAID alongside some SATA HDD’s. I tried and I tried to get an FE 5090… but none of our vendors could find one. I’ll post pics of the final build if I don’t burn the building down first!
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This is the way
Hot. HEDT platforms are exactly meant for this use case, problem is the price
What do you do for work??
now I know why those fans are out of stock… lol jk OP enjoy it!
A wise choice.
Why not both? I have my gaming rig on my good monitor and a MacMini M1 for media comsumption on a second monitor.
You made the right choice
Way better choice.
Able to game/work and do some AI stuff without any cuda issues (seeing that u bought a 5090) is totally worth it over a Mac Studio.
no need to apologize for an ultra 9, I think the amd hype is just… hype. meanwhile the gen 14 which self destructed occasionally gets more hype than the better ultra chip. I blame the influencers mostly.
Why a 5090 instead of a workstation card? Why a gaming monitor?
Smart.
what case is that? looks awesome
This is peak performance 💯💯 super jealous, enjoy it!
Congrats on the 5090!
Nice!
Monitor is great but I like it better with a monitor mount
Good choice
pa602 💖
Smart. Apple can kick rocks.
The GPU alone is $2,000. I’d say you got WAYY more bang for the buck going this route.
Good
good for you, i turned down a latest macbook M4, for st*pid dell laptop that crash every now and then. regret it ever since.
Good choice! 👍🏻
You have fine taste… And a sizable wallet.
what do you all do for OS?
do you just buy Windows 11?