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How much noise does the “Mid-2010” Mac Pro make compared to earlier models?

April 26, 2017mac pro models noise

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How much noise does the “Mid-2010” Mac Pro make compared to earlier models?

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The “Mid-2010” Mac Pro models — the Mac Pro “Quad Core” 2.8 (2010/Nehalem) and “Eight Core” 2.4 (2010/Westmere) — are extremely quiet. In fact, as part of a longer piece testing the performance of the “Mid-2010” Mac Pro, the always excellent BareFeats documented: The 2010 6-core and 8-core are in our lab with the Radeon 5870 and 5770 respectively. Our decibel meter only goes down to 40 dB. Below that the LCD screen reads “LOW.” On the other hand, the 2009 Mac Pro with the 4870 graphics card registers 46 dB at idle. That’s definitely quiet — about as quiet as anyone could hope for a desktop computer to be.