I am trying to create a PC build that will perform at about the same level as the hideously overpriced macs, but am having trouble due to the obscurity of the parts used in them.
https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/
Did you even read the post?
Oops.
Come on Colonel.. It's barely 2 lines long..
what do you want to do withyour pc video rendering? photoshop? also how much do you want to spend?
The build is strictly hypothetical at this point, I'm just trying to figure out how a bottom of the line mac pro compares to a similar spec PC in terms of price.
link me the mac pro and il match it dollar for dollar pound for pound which ever, il do a same spec build and a same price build. that should give you a a sizable comparisent
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/F5UL
http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-G75VW-DS73-3D-17-3-Inch-Laptop-Black/dp/B007RKGJD8/ref=amtcd_B007MW73C2_B007RKGJD8
I'm trying to create a build that is similar in performance to the 12 core version, with no additional features selected.
http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/configure/MD771LL/A
Thanks, while it is a great build, it is not really what i'm looking for, the build is hypothetical at this point, I'm just trying to find somthing that is as close to a mac pro as possible.
ok i will start with an identical build il be right beack
Oops - I thought you were looking for a laptop. Now, here is where we can shine! So, in laymans terms, this PC will murder the Mac Pro for the same price. Not just murder, but gang rape and then burn the bloody, beaten, semin filled body with fast burning Hydrogen rocket fuel in a crypt surrounded by ravenous animals, tearing the burnt meat from the still blazing body in a horrendous act of bloody massacre.
Here: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/F6Io
Without the 6x Noctua NF F12s, it is a tiny bit cheaper than the standard Mac Pro. The 690 should be a Titan, but the Titan hasn't been added to PcPartPicker yet, so if you ever build this, you know to swap them out. Everything except for the RAM, which doesn't need it, will be watercooled, including the motherboard, GPU, and CPU. 6 cores hyperthreading to 12 threads makes a "12-core" computer. You can get 2560x1440p IPS monitors from ASUS for $650, and a Korean Shimian IPS panel on Ebay for $350. Those prices are much better than $1000 for the Apple monitor. I have no idea why they are saying the 5770 is "high-performance"... They are so old and decreped. Dear god, Apple... I thought the Ipad was bad, but this? Also, I threw in 512GB of SSD - the particular model has R/W speeds of over 530mb/s, which makes it one of the fastest SATA III SSDs out there. There are 32GB of Samsung God RAM, which can be overclocked extremely easily. Don't worry about CL 11 - you can bump it up to 1866mHz CL9 easily at around ~1.52V very easily. If you ever felt like being a god wasn't enough, you could put 2 more GTX Titans in that motherboard and still have some PCI-e slots open. That motherboard is huge...
Long story short, everything is better than a Mac Pro for that price. EVERYTHING.
Cheers,
Brennan Riddell
Thanks, I knew macs were awful, but I never new quite how awful until you created this. It truly is amazing how effective apple's marketing is that people will buy a mac pro over this thing, which seems to be God's computer.
it's not hard. the mac pro's still use socket 1366, and radeon 5770 or 5870 gpu's
:)
Yeah... I admire Apple for their design ethic and evil business practices (they are terrible, but they have made Apple rich...), but I hate the fact that they are charging outrageous prices for outdated, weak hardware. It is rediculous how they are marketting their fancified (my word for made "fancy") old computers that cost practically nothing to make for insane prices. Damn, I hate Apple. Google isn't much better.
here are the exact same components bar the gpu which is a model up and motherboard
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/F6WR
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131816
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1203227&CatId=156
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117276
this cost altogeather
$2501 for a nearly identical build to the mak pro you posted
Just over $1000 less for a slightly better PC. Thanks for the help, Now I have some more ammunition to use against the Apple fanboys.