Which Mac Pro to use?

Jeremy

Jeremy
So, amongst other things, I am going to be using a new Mac Pro to play Elite-Dangerous when it comes out for Mac.

As it so happens, I will be purchasing this new machine within the next month, and there are many options I can tweak... and I need to choose now.

From an Elite perspective, where am I best suited to put my money, and more to the point, when is it overkill.


  • How many cores will Elite-Dangerous make use of?
  • How much Memory?
  • Will Elite make use of the D700 GPUs, or should I stick with 500s?
  • Or should a make sure I have three monitors?
 
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Kroy

Kroy
It's overkill to buy a mac pro for Elite Dangerous. I assume you have a more important purpose or reason to spend >£1500* than you actually need to for a gamer-friendly system?

Also there is no mac version of the game at launch, so you'd need to Boot Camp or such

*Mac shop UK prices show minimum of £2,499 for a Mac Pro new model. For ~£1000 you could build a decent gaming computer with good/great components and still have change for a decent laptop.
 

Stachel

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Stachel
ED will probably eventually be released on consoles once it matures (ie all the major patching is out of the way). Since the next gen consoles are all PC's and all meet or exceed the current 'typical specification' for a gaming PC.

Worth bearing that in mind.

If you're going to buy an Apple product purely to play ED on, I'd say you're being silly ..

If you're going to buy one anyway, regardless, and just want to know which will best run ED: I'd say go with whicher one has the best discreet GPU.
 

Memnoch

M
Quad core 3GHz + and 8GB of RAM should see you doing okay. Go with the fastest GPU you can comfortably afford and as far as monitors concerned, if you do go for three make sure that the GPU you buy actually supports this and try and get the monitor with the thinnest bezel possible.
 

Stachel

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Stachel
Memnoch said:
Quad core 3GHz + and 8GB of RAM should see you doing okay. Go with the fastest GPU you can comfortably afford and as far as monitors concerned, if you do go for three make sure that the GPU you buy actually supports this and try and get the monitor with the thinnest bezel possible.
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It will be interesting to see how well multi threaded ED is. ;)

TBH I have a wheezy old gtx560 and a 2500 (non K) and it flies along at a solid 60fps with vsync.
 
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