I had a similar spec work machine back in 2012 and these things are still plenty fast. The problem is as you say the power consumption compared to new processors.
@@renerebe So many beeps :) I used to buy a bunch of super micro machines every year when i was still active in hosting. They make great hardware actually, but sometimes you get funny stuff like chenglish in the bios. Some memorable ones "No fan system connect" and "No device booting"
I have an original 2006 MacPro 1,1. Got it for very cheap, seller had a problem with MacOS. Safe to say that I only run Linux on it. Cheap to upgrade to 8 cores and 32GB RAM. However, these server boards are much more flexible. I've got a few of those too, including a dual 6000 series Opteron which hasn't aged as well as Intel. Sometimes the onboard RAID/VGA stuff has to be disabled with a physical jumper.
IIRC the 1,1 and 2,1 where 99.99% identical. Maybe the only difference was a newer EFI BIOS version or so. I found the FullyBuffered RAM a bit expensive, especially when new, but even many years to come. This was the most expensive Mac we ever purchased, and we felt a bit cheated, especially with the 32-bit EFI BIOS and macOS dropping support really quickly, plus the physically fitting but obviously also neither BIOS supported Xeon updates. I'm feeling a bit sorry for those who brought the trashcan Mac, or the new cheese grater, but then maybe somehow they earn money in a way that they deserve to waste it like this.
@@renerebe Yes I believe it's possible to flash 2,1 firmware onto the 1,1, apparently this is needed to run MacOS properly with later CPUs. I never bothered to do this as I have never used MacOS on this machine. 32-bit EFI is no problem for grub thankfully. The trashcan was a big step backwards and the new cheese grater at least shows that apple is capable of listening to it's customers!
@@Madgemade yeah, but the new cheese grater is way to expensive, developers asked for a modular mac that used to start around 2k$, not 7k! And the performance is really entry level for that outrageous price ...
@@renerebe pretty much you have to cut a bit of plastic from the socked and use a special sticker on the cpu that flips 2 pins and 771 cpu's work in 775 motherboards not every chip set supports them and u have to update the cpu micro code whit a custom bios
@@renerebe those xeons perform exactly like core 2 quad and are very cheap in my country like 10 to 15 euro u can find them even cheeper in ali express
