how much enjoyment you get from spending hours reading posts, researching parts, and tuning stuff to work once you've installed it. One question you must answer is, How much do you value your time v. Depends how far you want to take the upgrade and what ultimate features you want. Maybe not extremely difficult, but very time consuming to research and test, get patches from other websites, and you have to be pretty handy with Terminal. On new machines like your work iMacPro you will get built in speed enhancements, all the handy features like Handoff, Continuity, etc which are difficult to hack into the cMP, and everything 'just works' as a unified system. Plus, it does take time to research and do those things, especially if you start adding extra power leads to high power gpus, and then maintain the system as the MacOS changes over time. Spend a bit less if you are comfortable getting used parts off eBay. One of the main considerations is, Do you like to tinker with your computer? You've got a great dual cpu set-up to start with there, so you can relatively easily replace the cpus, memory and gpu, however you will spend close to 500 USD on that and more for a newer gpu. And then you would have to compare by how much improvement you get compared to what a new machine could offer (even a top end iMac or 16" MBP, or a discounted 15" now, or heck even look at the top end new Minis now if you have a monitor). Others who use that software can answer if faster cpus or faster gpu would help your workflow. At the end of the day, only you can answer this question.
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