Question Value of Early 2009 Mac Pro

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Hello,
A friend of mine has a Early 2009 Mac Pro. It has 3 HDDs, 32gb of new ECC RAM ect... The specifications are below. Do you have any idea of the worth? He might sell it and get the iMac 5K.

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Thank you! :D
 
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You'd have to figure out what the depreciation rate is ((original cost / salvage value) * (month of sale / 12)), what the original cost of the machine is, and what value it has after the length of time it was owned (salvage value), once you figure out those numbers you can figure out how much your system is worth.

And I'm not personally an advocate of the 5K iMac, it's too much investment for a fancy screen with a sub par, non-upgradable laptop behind it. Just upgrade your GPU if you own that machine, you would not get back what you spend on the 5K iMac in terms of performance vs. a dual Xeon Mac Pro.
 
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Thanks, I'll take a look into it. I'll definetely try to sell it locally though.
On the contrary, I am surprised by the iMac 5k. A standalone 5K screen cost anywhere from 2700-3000eu here. But the iMac is like 2500eu with a great quality 5K monitor and all in one PC. But I would never get it though ;) especially after the X99 release... Now that's beastly.
Also, he's a professional photographer, the 5K screen would be awesome for him. Don't get me wrong, I'm for custom built PCs any day of the week, but he's REALLY used to the MAC OS, iOS ect... He won't change his mind :D
 
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Fair enough. We're located in Slovenia now, so 800$ translates to roughly 620euros (my own calculation). Thanks for the feedback... And if I may ask... How's your GTX 980? Must be a beast, huh? :D
 
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I have nothing with which I can stress it really. A single 1920x1080 screen and I don't care much for any of the resource intensive games out right now. Future proofing for a second GTX980 and a ROG Swift I think. Water cooling if it is needed as well.

Picking up a 4K TV here in a few days. It seems to have one HDMI input for 4K at 60hz at 3820x2160, so might hook that up and give it a try. Not much information about what standard it is. But since they make the distinction compared to the other 4 HDMI ports which can only do 30Hz, it might just work.

 
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That's awesome. It's amazing that the GTX 980 uses 1/3 of the power consumption of my dual 7970s but outperforms them in almost everything...

 
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Yeah the 5K screens are nice for photo and video editing, but the hardware that's behind the 5K iMac won't be able to keep up with 4K and 5K resolutions once Adobe Creative Suite adapts to those resolutions. And it can't be upgraded either beyond the basic configuration, so you have to keep that in consideration.
 
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In all honesty an i5 and R9 290X (alhough not 4gb of Vram) seem adequate to me for photo editing. As a video editor myself, I get it. But for some high-res photo editing, atleast in my oppinion he'll be fine.
Thanks for the info though, guys!
 
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