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How old is your DAW computer?
Hi,
My Harpertown 8-core intel xeon 2.8 GHZ Mac pro 3.1 10 years old this month On most days for 10 plus hours Chris
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Re: How old is your DAW computer?
My Harpertown must probably be that old too but I’ve only had it 3-4 months lol and love it. Not once missed a beat
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Re: How old is your DAW computer?
2012 Six Core cheese grater here. With 2 UAD cards, still plenty of juice.
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Re: How old is your DAW computer?
My 2010 self-build is (still) a decent & stable workhorse.
Which raises a question: What typically dies first? Power supply? CPU? Ram? Motherboard? I'm thinking perhaps CPU due to general heat & abuse. Do you suggest replacing components as a hedge against failure?
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Re: How old is your DAW computer?
2008 Mac Pro 3,1 Harpertown 4-core 2,8kHz.
3 HDD 1 SSD: Partition1: OS X 10.6.8, PT 10.3.10. for DAW work. Partition2: Mac OS Sierra 10.12.5 for everything else. Running smooth as ever. The SSD upgrade gave it new life. (The regular Sierra installer won't install on this mac, but I found a hack on the web.) |
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Re: How old is your DAW computer?
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My iMac system lasted just about 5 years when it fried it's video card. Also fried the replacement card so I'm thinking something else went bad inside. Not putting any more money into it at this time. I did like having the two machines working together in a client/master environment with VEPro and the cheesegrater. |
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Re: How old is your DAW computer?
My old machine ran for a good 3 years but the motherboard failed. I threw in a similar mobo and went back to work while the dead one went to Asus for replacement. When it came back, I stuck it back in and ran another 2 years before deciding to build a new rig(not because I needed it, but because I felt it was time to rebuild the drive from the ground up, and wanted to do that once). Now that old rig is still in play as a VI host and mastering machine. As for failures, spinning drives are the thing that fail most often here, followed by power supplies In the last 16 years, I've lost 1 graphics card, 2 power supplies, 1 motherboard and probably 6 spinning drives.
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Re: How old is your DAW computer?
I've built my DAW PC in 2013. Runs solid with ASUS P9X79 board. I think it is very similar to Albee's 6 core he was mentioning above.
I'm lucky, only experienced 2 HD fails since the late 80-ies. In this PC I have a Samsung pro 850 SSD now ( 256GB ) 2x 2GB WD Caviars and 2 hot swap bays . I organize my bare Sata HDs many different ways , so none of them gets over stressed or near full. I did have a part broken , the same one twice in a year !! Corsair H100i water cooler . Avoid it !! Using a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO now. Fine, thanx. My MAc mini is mid-2011 ( server, 2x 500GB 7200 rpm ) is factory with 8GB of RAM. It is no longer doing audio duties..Just looks pretty with Sierra on that 27" TB monitor
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Re: How old is your DAW computer?
Two from 2013 (See the first page of the i7 thread).
One hard drive died in 4 years. I just replaced 3 spinners with 3 Samsung 850 Pro SSDs. I plan on at least another 4 years from these 2 boxes.
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Re: How old is your DAW computer?
2010 Cheesegrater
2015 MBP 2017 iMac 27"
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