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I spotted a 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 on Facebook marketplace for £20 ($26) and thought, why not?
Collected it yesterday. The installed OS was Ubuntu desktop on an SSD. I swapped that out with an SSD with Mavericks installed and it all worked OK.
I have now updated it to Yosemite on a 1tb SSD and filled up the remaining 3 drive bays with 3 1tb HDDs. There is room to add an IDE drive under the Superdrive, I have a few in the garage so I may fit one later.
The GPU is an NVIDIA GeoForce 8800 GT.
2 x 2.8ghz Quad-Core intel Xeon processors
2 X 4gb sticks of RAM with 6 RAM slots currently empty.
The total weight of this computer is now 21.2kg (46.8lbs)
Comparison with M Mac Pro 6,1
Collected it yesterday. The installed OS was Ubuntu desktop on an SSD. I swapped that out with an SSD with Mavericks installed and it all worked OK.
I have now updated it to Yosemite on a 1tb SSD and filled up the remaining 3 drive bays with 3 1tb HDDs. There is room to add an IDE drive under the Superdrive, I have a few in the garage so I may fit one later.
The GPU is an NVIDIA GeoForce 8800 GT.
2 x 2.8ghz Quad-Core intel Xeon processors
2 X 4gb sticks of RAM with 6 RAM slots currently empty.
The total weight of this computer is now 21.2kg (46.8lbs)
Comparison with M Mac Pro 6,1