I've had my cMP 4,1 dual CPU since new in 2009 but only decided to upgrade it now as a part of my "killing time during corona" project.
I purchased a duo of X5690s already de-lidded and installed them few days ago. It wasn't immediately a huge success, but "re-refitting" the heatsinks solved it...
Hi,
I am currently upgrading my Mac Pro to a very high performance regarding CPU, RAM, GPU, SSD etc. on a budget of ~2000$ in total so far.
So far my Setup:
Mac Pro 4.1 flashed to 5.1
Running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6
2 x 3,46 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon
64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan...