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+1TB 960 Pro SSD : $600
+8 core Xeon E5 could go anywhere from $500 to $2000+ depending on clock rate and generation.
+ Pricing on Vega hasn't been announced yet, but the Apple keynote mentioned 11 Teraflops, which is competitive with a GTX 1080Ti. Say AMD undercuts that, and it's $700.
+ A X99 motherboard will run you around $300.
+ A 10G network card is another $200 at least.
+ 32GB of DDR4 2666 ECC is about $400. A 5k panel off newegg(only one I see) is $2000, but I know you can at a minimum buy the LG one off apples site which is $1300. That brings you up to $4000 as a low estimate(lower end E5, 16GB of RAM, low estimate on GPU). You'll still need to throw in a power supply($150 at least), a case(Say $100), most likely cooling for the CPU and case fans(Another $100), mouse and keyboard(Say $100 for nice but not great). That gets you up to at least $4,450, and it's unlikely you'll have 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports, a card for that likely won't be cheap either. So $5k for this, depending on Vega pricing, and what CPU is actually in there, sounds fairly reasonable. That all said I don't need server hardware, and you probably also don't. $2k on a i7 7700K or i5 7600K, a GTX 1070 - GTX 1080TI, a 512 850 Evo, a 1440p panel, 16GB of non-ECC ram, is what feels like the price/performance sweet spot right now, and Apple isn't in that market. That doesn't mean though this product is overpriced. |