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Chassis compatibility: 2006 - 2012
I managed to snag a couple of Mac Pro early 2009 dual quad Xeon towers, for a good price, but the price was partly due to them both being a bit mangled, in the chassis department. Attempts to straighten one of them have failed and the other is, unfortunately, well past saving. Here in sunny...- Amsterdamned
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- case chassis enclosure mac pro
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How to firmware upgrade with non-metal gpu to Mojave
alright I’ll make this quick because I know that there’s an easy answer for it, but I just can find it. I’m trying to update to mojave and since I’m on .0085, it requires a firmware upgrade, I know that to firmware upgrade you need a flashed gpu, the only working flashed gpu I have is a Radeon... -
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Mac Pro 4,1 - Fried Logic Board?
I've searched on here and can't find my exact issue. Was installing a new GPU, the GTX 780TI. That worked but then I decided to see if I could get the original GPU installed as well in another PCIe slot. Saw somewhere that someone had used power from two of the SATA ports used for the hard... -
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Resolved 2009 8-Core 4,1 - 5,1 suddenly stopped booting
About 9 months ago I flashed my 2009 8-Core 2.66 GHz Mac Pro to 5,1 firmware and upgraded the processors to x5680s which I bought on eBay and de-lidded. I've been running Sierra 10.12.6. Things were fine until a few weeks ago, when the following symptoms started happening erratically: 1... -
Mac pro crashing HS 10.13.4 + nvidia web driver
Hello all, Well a weird situation happened some days ago. On my mac pro 5,1, i've swapped my 970 gtx (non flashed) with a 1060 GTX (non flashed) somethng like 3 weeks ago, but the nvidia web driver stayed the same 387.10.10.10.30.106 (pfffiiuuuu what a pain.. thanks nvidia..). On bootcamp... -
Does Asus hyper m.2 x16 card work for mac pro?
as title, asus hyper m.2 x16 card can take 4 x nvme/ ahci ssd, but anyone here who knows if they take raid 0 on mac pro or not? amfeltec is toooooooo expensive for only a adaptor, i dont juge, but i want to find another replacement, could anyone help please? many thanks card adaptor link...- parisinvest
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- hyper m.2 mac pro
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Suggestions about GPUs
Greetings, I am new here. I would like to ask you a question. I own a Mac Pro 5.1 Mid 2012. My ATI 5770 is not enough anymore, it is very slow and lately, I am overusing it. Some days ago it would not give a signal to my monitor. Then it gives me violet and green bars and the monitor would... -
2009 Mac Pro v4.1 to 5.1 Graphics Card Help
Hi everyone ... I have a 2009 Mac Pro desktop tower which originally came with v4.1 firmware, but i updated to v5.1. I also had processors upgraded to 2 x Intel Xeon 3.46Mhz and added a Mac Edition Nvidia Geforce GTX 680 graphics card. It's all running on Sierra 10.12.6. I'm now playing with...- rodedwards
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- graphics card replacement graphics card upgrade. mac pro nvidia gtx 1070 sapphire radeon rx580
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Permissions problems and kext...
Hi guys, I'm facing a rather strange issue on my Mac Pro (2009, upgraded to the 5,1 firmware, if it makes a difference, running El Capitan 10.11.6). I recently added a hard drive coming from another mac inside it (actually, I cloned the drive from another mac running El Capitan, since the...- Nessdufrat
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- el capitan kext mac pro
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Powering 1080ti in 2010 5.1 Mac Pro?
Hi, I've searched and found answers to similar queries to mine, but 'similar' hasn't helped me so apologies for any repetition. I've bought an Nvidia GTX 108ti for use in a Mid 2010 5,1 Mac Pro. The card has/requires 1x 8-pin and 1x 6-pin. The only cables I have immediately present and which...- spiteyourface
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- 1080ti 2010 gtx 1080 ti mac pro mid 2010 nvidia power
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Loopback open multiple interfaces?
Excuse my ignorance but I’m trying to weed out a multimedia issue I’m having with my Mac Pro and IPhone 7+. Is it normal that loopback is open and active on 4-6 ports at any given time? Even if I turn off WiFi and I open a terminal window and use lsof -i I can see processes open and an...- Prplehz76
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- high sierra (mac os 10.13) localhost loopback mac pro
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- Forum: macOS High Sierra (10.13)
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Games on Mojave
happy to hear people being able to run Mac OS Mojave on their Mac pros without issues, but my question asks if games like fortnite, csgo and other big games, work on Mojave. With the depreciation of OpenGL I can only guess this causes some problems with some games that don’t have metal support... -
XFX Radeon R9 390x cant get into desktop
hi i've just received my r9 390x with 8go de vram, and I plug into my mac pro, with one 6pin and one 8 pin from 2x 6pin mini on the motherboard, only on the second 16x slot position from bottom, cause this card has an iron protection too thick to enter the bottom pci_e slot, it can boot up into...- parisinvest
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- mac pro radeon r9 390x video card installation
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Mac Pro 4,1->5,1 RX Vega
Do the RX Vega cards need to be flashed to work with the old Mac Pros? I've done a lot of research about Nvidia cards, but I don't really know how it works with the AMD cards. I've seen some stuff about editing kext files. If you do that does it work with the EFI, or would it need to be flashed...- GalactiNaut
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- 2009 4.1 5.1 amd boot efi flash mac pro rx vega vega
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2012 Mac Pro Netflix Without Silverlight Workaround?
Have a fully loaded 2012 Mac Pro with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 3072 MB. I've run into issues with software saying it can't be run on it because of the age and standardized hardware, but can occasionally force the issue. Is there a way to do so with Netflix and NOT install Silverlight? -
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Mac Pro 4,1->5,1 Video Card Audio
I was wondering if somebody who has experience upgrading old Mac Pros could tell me if I put in a GTX 1080 or 1080 Ti (flashed) if I will be able to use the display port audio output. As it is, I am not able to select my monitor for audio output, connected via mini display port to HDMI. From...- GalactiNaut
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- 1080 1080 ti 2009 2010 audio output display port hdmi mac pro monitor sound
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cMP bootcamp and windows 7 for gaming
Hello guys ! I'm experiencing something quite frustrating and wondering if anybody has a solution to that (well i already have one and it could be of some use to someone but i'm searching for a better solution) : -On a mac pro 5, bootcamp has been used to install win 7 pro sp1 on a ssd on its... -
how to install a video card with 800w on mac pro
hello you all, i've just bought a Radeon r9 390x 8go video card, and want to install on my mac pro 5.1, while waiting for the delivery, I want to know how to connect it, its system requires is 750w, but recommended at 800w to 850w, I knew there some ways upgrade the supply power on SATA ports...- parisinvest
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- mac pro r9 390x radeon 390 video card
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Upgrading a 2008 Mac Pro: Graphics card recommendations
Hey everyone, I'm looking into buying a used 2008-2009 Mac Pro on ebay. I want to smoothly edit HD videos on FCP, so I was thinking I should upgrade the internals. -At least 16gb RAM -At least 2gb VRAM (graphics card) Here's a link to the Mac I found... -
Retain GT120 w/o handicapping RX 580 & FCPX?
Hey Everybody— I have upgraded my MP5,1 12-core 3.46 machine to the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 in order to drive a 4K display and accelerate Final Cut Pro X. Since I have extra PCIe slots via an expansion chassis, I intended to keep a GeForce GT120 stashed there for instances where I got into...
