what? $250 is really overpriced for a case. it will get you a really good case (see: https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&I...)
>~$220 for a good power supply
that's definitely overkill.
>~$120 for CLC water cooling for the CPU
>~$100 for case fans
that's like, at least 6 really expensive case fans + watercooling. does the mac pro even have that good of a cooling system?
With a Xeon-W and a Vega64 ~200$ for a decent power supply isn't that far fetched, you'll be looking at 850W with preferably 1000W+ PSU so it could stay cool under pressure.
And no the iMac doesn't have a CLC but it has a cooling system you cannot replicate, and if you haven't noticed an air cooler that can keep a socket 2066 CPU sufficiently cool would cost you about as much as a CLC
$100 buys you a few maglev low noise fans nothing too fancy.
I will eat my hat if the iMac Pro comes with a kilowatt PSU.
The Xeon-W has a TDP of 140W and can pull 200W under load.
Add in cooling, most radial fans are 4-6A @ 12V which means they can pull upto 80W.... The Delta radial fan on the Vega 64/56 air pulls 60W on it's own at full speed.
High end motherboards consume 40-80W, memory also will consume about 5W per DIMM.
And you have the built in screen which can easily consume 200W or more at peak brightness.
So I hope you have a tasty hat, because there is no way that the iMac Pro isn't coming with a near 1kW PSU.
It's certainly not the same, but the built in screen definitely does not consume 200W, and though I can't determine the raw number, going from 'dimmest' to 'brightest' increases power draw 70W.
Guess what size PSU all of the above comes with? 310W.
We shall see. I actually really like the iMac Pro, and would enjoy having one, I don't want to see it fail, I'm just struggling to see how you're getting more than three times the heat dissipation load in what they say is the same 'body size'.