2008 3,1 8-Core Mac Pro

Configure Your 2008 3,1 8-Core Mac Pro
Processor

The 64-bit Mac Pro includes two Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors giving you 8 processor cores.

Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Harpertown" processors (8-Cores) [ $]

Two 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Harpertown" processors (8-Cores) [ $]

Two 3.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Harpertown" processors (8-Cores) [ $]

Memory

This dual-processor Mac Pro supports up to 64GB of DDR2 667MHz memory in eight slots. Choose more memory to improve overall system performance.

None [ $]

16GB (8x 2GB) of 667MHz DDR2 [ $]

32GB (8x 4GB) of 667MHz DDR2 [ $]

64GB (8x 8GB) of 667MHz DDR2 [ $]

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 1 more info

Your Mac Pro includes four drive bays, allowing you to configure it with up to 16TB of storage using 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s drives, up to 2TB of storage using high-performance solid-state drives (SSD), or any combination of each type of drive. Configure each drive bay separately.

Upgrading your boot drive from a hard drive to a solid-state drive will generate up to 3x faster boot time, 5x faster import/open/saving of large files, and 5x faster application start-up.

All hard drives and solid-state drives are new.

None [ $]

1TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

2TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

4TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

250GB solid-state drive (SSD) [ $]

500GB solid-state drive (SSD) [ $]

1TB solid-state drive [ $]

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 1

Note regarding solid-state drives:
The drive bays on the Mac Pro are SATA2 (3GB/s), which allow a maximum performance of 250MB/s for solid-state drives. However, we stock the new SATA3 (6GB/s) solid-state drives which are capable of 500MB/s. To achieve the full potential of our Samsung SATA3 solid-state drives, we can install them on a PCIe slot which allow the drives to perform at their full speed. We recommend the PCIe SSDs (configuration options below) for the boot drive.

Professionals typically have a PCIe SSD as the boot drive (for the operating system and applications) plus one or two more SSDs/HDs (for data storage).

We can setup RAID arrays with two or four identical drives.

A stripe RAID combines the speed of two drives for performance. For example, 2x 4TB drives perform at 150MB/s alone, but 250MB/s on stripe RAID. The RAID will display as a single 8TB drive. (Known as RAID 0)

A mirror RAID automatically copies everything from one drive to the other for backup. For example, if you have 2x 4TB drives and one dies, the data will be retrievable on the 2nd drive. This RAID will display as 4TB drive since the second drive is being occupied as a mirror copy of the first. (Known as RAID 1)

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 2

This Mac Pro includes four drive bays, allowing you to configure it with up to 8 terabytes of storage using 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives, up to 2 terabytes of storage using high-performance solid-state drives, or any combination of each type of drive. Configure each drive bay separately.

None [ $]

1TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

2TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

4TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

250GB solid-state drive (SSD) [ $]

500GB solid-state drive (SSD) [ $]

1TB solid-state drive [ $]

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 3

This Mac Pro includes four drive bays, allowing you to configure it with up to 8 terabytes of storage using 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives, up to 2 terabytes of storage using high-performance solid-state drives, or any combination of each type of drive. Configure each drive bay separately.

None [ $]

1TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

2TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

4TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 4

This Mac Pro includes four drive bays, allowing you to configure it with up to 8 terabytes of storage using 7200-rpm Serial ATA 3Gb/s drives, up to 2 terabytes of storage using high-performance solid-state drives, or any combination of each type of drive. Configure each drive bay separately.

None [ $]

1TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

2TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

4TB 7200-rpm SATA 3Gb/s hard drive [ $]

PCIe SSD / Flash Storage (as Boot Drive)

Apple produced the Mac Pro with a SATA II (3GB/s) onboard drive bay controller. New SSDs are SATA III (6GB/s). Upgrading your SSD(s) from the onboard SATA II controller to a PCI-Express based SATA III controller will allow the SSD to perform at full speed; achieving up to double the speed.

SATA II SSD's (Drive Bay) offer a max theoretical transfer rate of: read 285Mbps, write 275Mbps.
SATA III SSD's (PCIe) offer a max theoretical transfer rate of: read 550Mbps, write 520Mbps.

The new 'cylinder' Mac Pros use the newest technology flash storage drives. Via a proprietary and revolutionary system, we install the super fast flash storage drives in the tower Mac Pro. These drives achieve 900MB/s as a single drive and 1000-2000MB/s in striped-RAID configuration.

Since these drives will be installed on a PCI-Express slot, the 4 drive bays will be free. Thus, allowing the SSD/flash boot drive plus 4x hard drives. Additional hard drives and SSDs can be installed in the optical bay upon request.

None [ $]

250GB PCIe SATA III solid-state drive (~500MB/s) [ $]

500GB PCIe SATA III solid-state drive (~500MB/s) [ $]

1TB PCIe SATA III solid-state drive (~500MB/s) [ $]

2TB PCIe SATA III solid-state drive (~500MB/s) [ $]

250GB PCIe flash storage (~1250MB/s) [ $]

500GB PCIe flash storage (~1250MB/s) [ $]

Graphics

Configure your Mac Pro with PCI Express graphics cards. Configure your Mac Pro with two cards to power up to six displays simultaneously for visualization projects and large display walls or choose one high-performance card for video editing and rendering.

None [ $]

ATI Radeon 2600XT 256MB (2x DVI for 2 display support) [ $]

NVIDIA Geforce 8800GT 512MB (2x DVI for 2 display support) [ $]

NVIDIA GT120 512MB (1x DVI and 1x mini-Display Port for 2 display support) [ $]

NVIDIA GTX 285 1GB (2x DVI for 2 display support) [ $]

ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB (1x DVI and 2x mini-Display Port for 3 display support) [ $]

ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB (1x DVI and 2x mini-Display Port for 3 display support) [ $]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB w/ 1500 CUDA Cores (2x DVI plus 1x HDMI & 1x Display Port supporting 4K Resolution) [ $]

Optical Drive

Your Mac Pro comes standard with one 18x double-layer SuperDrive that burns and plays both CDs and DVDs.

None [ $]

One 16x SuperDrive [ $]

Two 16x SuperDrives [ $]

USB 3.0 / USB-C / eSATA

The Mac Pro comes standard with five USB 2.0 ports, two Firewire 400 ports, two Firewire 800 ports, and two Gigabit Ethernet ports.

Enhance your Mac Pro with USB 3.0 (5GB/s), USB-C (10GB/s), and/or eSATA connections for external storage.

If you would like more than one of the options, please contact us for a cutsom quote.

None [ $]

eSATA 2-Port PCIe Expansion Card (6GB/s maximum transfer rate) [ $]

USB-C 1-port & USB 3.0 1-port PCIe Expansion Card [ $] more info

USB 3.1 (Type C) is the latest and fastest version of USB. Apple is making it standard on all the new Macs.

USB 3.0 performs up to 5GB/s.
USB-C performs up to 10GB/s.
Thunderbolt 3 performs up to 40GB/s.

Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C have the same connection. Thunderbolt 3 devices will be compatible with this card, however will perform at the USB-C speed of 10GB/s.

There is a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter on the market, however it is not compatible with this card. Thunderbolt 2 is not compatible with the tower Mac Pro.

USB 3.0 4-Port PCIe Expansion Card (5GB/s maximum transfer rate) [ $]

USB 3.0 2-Port & eSATA 2-Port Combination PCIe Expansion Card (20GB/s maximum transfer rate) [ $]

Wireless

Configure your Mac Pro with an AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi card using 802.11n technology to connect to wireless networks.

None [ $]

AirPort Extreme Wi-Fi Card with 802.11n [ $]

Bluetooth

Bluetooth [ $]

Operating System

Choose the operating system that best fits your software requirements.

None [ $]

Snow Leopard 10.6.8 [ $]

Lion 10.7 [ $]

Mountain Lion 10.8 [ $]

Mavericks 10.9 [ $]

Yosemite 10.10 [ $]

El Capitan 10.11 [ $]

Keyboard

Apple ultrathin aluminum keyboard.

None [ $]

Apple USB keyboard with numeric keypad [ $]

Apple Wireless Keyboard [ $]

Mouse and Magic Trackpad

Apple mouse.

None [ $]

Apple USB Mighty Mouse [ $]

Apple Wireless Magic Mouse [ $]

Apple Wireless Magic Trackpad [ $]

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Model Identifier	3,1
Chassis Type	Tower
Chassis Model	A1186
Architecture	64-bit
Processor Class	Intel Xeon 'Harpertown'
Processor Socket	LGA771
Base Clock Speeds	2x Quad-Core 2.8GHz 2x Quad-Core 3.0GHz 2x Quad-Core 3.2GHz
Memory Slots	8
Memory Type	DDR2 667MHz/800MHz Fully Buffered
Maximum Memory	64GB
Drive Bays	4
Drive Controller	SATA 2 (3GB/S)
Optical Bays	2
Optical Controller	IDE / PATA
PCIe Expansion	Four PCIe 2.0
USB 2.0	2x Front 3x Rear
USB 3.0	Optional 4-port
Firewire 400	1x Front 1x Rear
Firewire 800	1x Front 1x Rear
Thunderbolt	Not Supported
Audio	One Speaker/Headphone - Front One Speaker/Headphone - Rear One Optical Audio Out - Rear One Optical Audio In - Rear
HDMI	Optional (Graphics Card Upgrade)
Network	Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Wireless	Optional
Bluetooth	Bluetooth 2.0
Power Supply	980W
Operating System	Snow Leopard 10.6 - El Capitan 10.11 No Sierra 10.12 Since Apple Discontinued Support in 2016

Configure Your 2008 3,1 8-Core Mac Pro

Processor

Memory

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 1 more info

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 1

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 2

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 3

Hard Drive / SSD - Bay 4

PCIe SSD / Flash Storage (as Boot Drive)

Graphics

Optical Drive

USB 3.0 / USB-C / eSATA

Wireless

Bluetooth

Operating System

Keyboard

Mouse and Magic Trackpad

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Specifications

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