So – that’s eight displays from 3 cards plus a spare slot for a card or a more securely connected expansion chassis, 4k support, display port, hdmi, and dvi for thousands less than a trashcan with 6 displays, picked up some hex core xeons on ebay for a couple hundred and it can outperform many stock trashcan macs. (was hoping for 3 displays per gpu on the 730s like the PC but it seems the mac driver will only light up 2 ports, but they are single slot and slot powered) – only issue is you have to sometimes pull the cards after an update to get the latest nvidia driver or you get stuck in a boot loop. And oh yeah, $$$$ for a good expansion chassis (startech – I am looking at you – give us something a step up from your current chassis with 4 PCIe slots at a good price please, and make them chainable).Ī pair of evga stock (not mac flashed) GT730s Very cool btw to have 6 out of the box, and props for the pic and pimpin out the rig, so please allow me to digress & vent at apples design department: the trashcan form factor is not what professionals need, and thunderbolt cables to your expansion chassis have sketchy cable retention – your entire protools rig or video processing cards or in my case an RME RayDat is hanging off a single cable with no solid cable locking mechanism (say what you want about thumb-screws, but my displays never glitch out because my DVI connectors loosen up over the long term), thunderbolt should at least lock like a full size display port connector does if your entire PCIe bus is hanging off of it.

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