Just upgrade the GPU, tweak OSX a bit as mentioned above, and keep on truckin'. Would a brand new mac pro, or maxed out imac be faster? Yea, but an average machine like the mac mini? Shit, the mac mini isn't even available with a quad core anymore. only it targets early-2011 MacBook Pros, and includes the updates from MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.2. And before that they were fairly flat along the xeons after 06. Mac mini EFI Firmware Update 1.4 addresses stability issues for mid-2011 Mac minis. Performance increases have been nearly flat since sandy bridge, which was in 2011. That kind of was the big jump that we've just been coasting since. Press and hold the power button on your Mac mini until the power indicator light flashes repeatedly, then release the power button to begin the update. Click Shut Down in the Mac mini EFI Firmware Update window and wait for your computer to shut down. CPU power hasn't jumped that much since the generation that came out with the first mac pro. To update the firmware on your Intel-based Mac mini: Quit all other open applications. There's this weird thing with computer nerds who think anything over 2 years old is ancient, deprecated, and horribly slow now. Especially since you have the 8 core version, it's a pretty powerful machine still. Its single core score is decent and the multi core scores are still solid. Only the newest quad core or better machines exceed it. Really though, go look at some geekbench scores. If you don't care about GPU performance, there's some very cheap cards that will get the job done. Get a new GPU, do some minor tweaking, and upgrade to as hobu said, mavericks and then yosemite soon. Hollywood effects studios and stuff use their cards. There's an ebay seller that specifically sells reflashed video cards to work with macs, and they have a very good rep. There are a few limitations, mainly that it doesn't have the latest standard of SATA and a couple other minor things. With an SSD it would likely kick the ass of 90% of the machines people use every day.
16gb of ram and that gen of xeon isn't an "outdated" machine, people need to get over themselves.
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