I'd say the point is not that you can or can't (or wouldn't) overclock the mac pro, it's that it is extremely easy to overclock a much cheaper PC. Which then makes it even more valuable when compared to the MP in terms of both price and render power.

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Brian Higgins <higgins@soldesignfx.com> wrote:

Does anyone actually overclock Mac Pros?  If you're that technically inclined, you've already built a Hackintosh.

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Teddy Gage <teddygage@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm guessing RAM maxes out at 64GB but I'm sure that costs an extra $2k. The fact is, this machine will be impossible to overclock due to the size and cooling capacity. As someone who builds computers I can tell you this is simple physics, unless they are using phase exchangers or liquid hydrogen. I'm guessing a minimum entry price point of $3999. The intel 3930K chip overclocked is faster than the 8 core xeon and currently retails for under $500. See my cinebench scores http://imgur.com/xMTkacD. You can build a system around that chip for another $600. You could literally have 3 computers that, together, are 4x faster than the iWastebasket for the entry level price, before you do any upgrading to the MP. Let alone lose all your invested stock of pci-e cards, adapters, hard drives, etc.

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jim Curtis <jpcurtis@me.com> wrote:

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

RAM maximum?

On Jun 10, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Søren Christensen wrote:

what is  most cryptic right now - to me at least - is how they plan for the user to access the 40GB/320Gbit pci express bandwidth? 

The thunderbolt2 ports only accounts for about 1/3 of the available bandwidth.

I guess thats why they called it a sneak peak :-)

Still, I dont mind running the adobe cc on that.

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On Jun 10, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Stephen van Vuuren <stephen@sv2studios.com> wrote:

From the Apple click-through, it appears if I'm seeing it right to be a
single socket with 4 RAM slots, meaning CPU and memory options will be
pretty limited. Only RAM and CPU looks like standard expansion, so Teddy may
be right, this thing may be for the most part, no more configurable than a
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