Dual Quadro M4000 for 5,1 cMP
I've been using a flashed GTX Titan X lately on my 5,1 Mac Pro for some long-form, intensive 4K video editing and rendering using Adobe Premiere Pro cc. It's been great with no glitches (thankfully!)...
View ArticleXFX AMD Radeon RX 460 Single Slot Card Work on Mac Pro?
Hi all, has anyone tried this single slot card on a Mac Pro and gotten it to work? http://xfxforce.com/en-us/products/amd-radeon-rx-400-series/rx-460-4gb-sf-rx-460p4tfg5 Seems like a nice low power (I...
View ArticleHelp assigning new boot drive to existing raid
Hi, I wonder if anyone can help or point me in the right direction for help? I have a mac pro 3.1 with an sad boot drive and two (non sad) drives in raid for all my storage. the boot drive (intel) has...
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Bootcamping Windows to Mac Pro 5.1 w/ GTX 680
Hello! I've recently got a Mac Pro 4.1->5.1 3.33GHz Intel Xeon, 32 GB, 256GB SSD, 2TB HDD and GTX 680 GPU. I do a lot of Music Production so dual booting Windows and Mac is always helpful! I'm just...
View ArticleMonitor wont go to sleep
My monitor wont go to sleep, just continue with screensaver, tried to change the sleep time in different timeout settings. Also tried the 15 secs with the power cable off reset, still no luck. Any...
View Articleimproving the Bluetooth range/signal on my 4,1
I use my 4,1 for music and audio, and I have put it behind a wall to eliminate noise. Problem is, my trackpad (1st gen) connects via bluetooth, and now it responds all jittery. It was great when the...
View ArticleUSB 3.x PCIe Cards for Classic Mac Pro
Thread summary for latest recommendations. This thread refers to PCIe cards for adding USB 3.0 and 3.1 to classic Mac Pros. (Currently 3.1 is not supported in OS X, but is in Windows.) General Notes:...
View ArticlecMP 5,1 Budget Upgrade Plan
My office has (finally) started to refresh some older Mac Pro equipment. I managed to snag a 5,1 cMP with 12 Core with running at 2.66 GHz (should be x5650's). It currently has 26 Gig of Ram 6x4GB...
View ArticleResale value of a used 2013 Mac Pro?
How are these machines holding their resale value? This is the first time in 30 years I'm selling a computer after 3 years that's still a current model. LOL. It's unprecedented but perhaps good for...
View ArticleNew Mac Pro problems, cause by external hard drive?
Hi! Since I have my new Mac Pro, i had a lot of trouble : first it keep freezing. I called Apple Care, they made me do a couple of thing. But nothing work. I did a fresh install of my computer and the...
View ArticleCurrent state of cMP Benchmarking
I am looking to start upgrading my cMP and want to do benchmarks at each upgrade to measure the effectiveness of what the hell I am doing. What are the common benchmarks that people are using. Right...
View ArticleHow to Recover NTFS win7 hdd, after format to OSX Journal ext
hello, Tonight while trying to install ELcap on my 1.1 (2.1) mp... I selected one HDD which was bootable with win 7 ultimate formated NTFS used to flash my card. HDD was mainly Win7 with only 1 folder...
View ArticleGranite's 2006 to 2008 Mac Pro Upgrade Guide
This post is a summary of my build thread shown here: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1564660 Have an old 2006 4-core mac pro and a couple hundred bucks laying around? If your good at...
View ArticleTesting Ram adequacy
Hi, What is a good way of testing if you should increase the RAM capacity on your mac? Just run multiple high demand applications and once and test the speed? Or is there a more professional or...
View ArticleKeeping the old ... young
Hello, So I own an Early 2009 MacPro that I'd like to keep going. It currently hosts a QuadroFX 4800 GPU, but I'm not sure how to get any more out of it. My problem is that it won't fully run my...
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Mac pro 2009 CPU Socket damage
i have Mac Pro 2009 8 cores that i want to clean the pc and i take out the heatsink and put a new termal paste, i take out the processor and when i try to put the back i saw that some pins was damge -...
View ArticleMac Pro 4,1/ early 2009 RAM slot layout
I am currently upgrading an early 2012 to 6 Core CPUs (washer stack method) and I have experienced some oddities: It does boot, but it shows a red diagnosis LED/ red lamp next to the front (when having...
View Article16GB Modules in 2009 Quad core
Is it possible to put 4 X 16GB modules for a total of 64GB? Thanks. --- Post Merged, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:51 AM --- Checking with OWC they said only 3 X 16GB Module configuration is possible.
View ArticleProblem with Samsung 850 Evo SSD in Mac Pro 5,1
I've just bought new a Samsung 850 Evo M.2 1Tb and my first attempt at installing in my Mac Pro 5,1 didn't go well. I was using a StarTech.com x4 PCI Express to M.2 PCIe SSD Adapter Card - for M.2 NGFF...
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