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Is there a way to set which GPU should handle the Boot screen of OS X ?
Hi all :) Is there a way to set which GPU should handle the Boot screen of OS X ? I want my ATI Radeon 5870 not to be the GPU which handles the Boot screen of OS X. Rather I'd like to have my ATI Radeon 2600 XT handle the Boot screen ;) Regards ! -
PC Geforce GTX 960 4GB running in Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) - benchmarks for comparison
I'd like to see if I have bought the best card for my budget (≤ £200) for my 2008 Mac Pro 3,1. I've installed and am successfully running the 4GB version of the Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 which is an unflashed PC card so no boot screen. I will admit that I bought the card on the...- lewis_cooper
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- 2008 3.1 benchmark flash flashed gpu graphics card mac pro
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Nix the "Early Mid Late" Mac Pro
I hereby propose that we forever drop the early, mid, late prefixes for Mac Pros until Apple releases two in one year again. Are we seriously calling the current Mac Pro the "Late 2013" model? At this rate, we'll be able to name them by decades soon. -
Mac Pro 3,1 crashes during sleep with fans going high
I have a Mac Pro 3,1 that works fine, but since I have bought it used it tends to crash every few days with fans on high. I have not see anything reasonable in the logs. SMC etc. all have been reset. This has been an issues since Mavericks with new installs, new disks etc. memory checks out ok... -
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Mac Pro 4,1 Graphic Card options?
Hello All! I have 2 Mac Pro 4,1 Machines and I need to buy graphics cards for them. I've found a second hand GT120 (original card), which sorts me out for one machine. But Now I need to find a card for the 2nd machine. This needs to be cheap(ish) but also work well. I want to drive 2 screens... -
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RAM Error Tone After System Crash
Hello everyone! I have the Mac Pro Late 2013 model, I've upgraded my RAM sticks manually few months ago with RAM purchased from the Apple Online Store to 64GB. I've discovered that when the Mac Pro is running at full load (CPU+GPU) for rendering, the system will crash and the beeping sound...- jimmywong1111
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- apple diagnostics error error tones mac mac pro mac pro late 2013 pro ram ram error startup tone
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Thermal pads for Titan X?
Hey everyone, Looking to replace the thermal pads on a gtx Titan X. I heard good things about fujipoly but not sure about thickness and W/mK ratings. Higher the W/mk rating the better? 1mm thickness? Thinner the better? .5mm perhaps? Thanks, Matt -
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2009 Mac Pro PCI slots 1 and 2 shared?
Hey everyone, I know slots 3 and 4 are shared, but do slots 1 and 2 share lanes as well, or are they independent of one another? Thanks, Matt -
Mac Pro 3,1 - 16GB 667mhz faster than 20GB 800mhz RAM??
Here's a conundrum for you all… I have a 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 2 x 2.8 GHz running El Capitan 10.11.5. I had 16GB of RAM made up of a mixture of 800mhz and 667mhz modules.The presence of the 667mhz causes even the 800mhz modules to run at 667mhz so I decided to purchase 4 x 4GB modules so that I...- lewis_cooper
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- benchmark geekbench mac pro memory module ram
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The "I'm Waiting for a New Mac Pro Tower" Thread
Hey Apple, one of your many professional customers here, We're sick of being neglected like we have been these last 3 years. Please give us want we need. And guess what? If you do, we'll give you MONEY! -We need a Mac Pro TOWER (not the tiny, non-upgradeable trashcan thing). -We need the...- aaronhead14
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- 2016 apple graphics cards mac mac pro new mac pro tower nvidia please tower user upgradeable
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Help mac pro 1,1 with glitchy video.
So I have a mac pro 1,1 with 9 GB of ram and a HD7790 with os x 10.11.4. And the video is being glitchy and slow. I read that there is a problem with the 77 series could someone help me fix this! Thanks for any help!- Power_Mac_Fanatic
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x5690 running 55c under normal usage
Hey everyone, I have a 2009 Mac Pro with dual de-lidded x5690's. I installed them using a single line of arctic silver 5. Everything runs fine, however, my temps during normal usage (i.e. browsing the web) stay around 55c on CPU A and about 45c on CPU B. Anyone else have this setup running at... -
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Drive shows in system profiler but not disc utility
Hey everyone, I have a m.2 installed in my 2009 Mac Pro pci slot, the disc shows in system profiler but not in disc utility. I checked terminal using (diskutil list) and it does not show up. I tried different pci slots, restarting, reset pram and SMC, I even tried reinstalling the OS but still...- wiski15b
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- disc utility m.2 mac pro pci ssd
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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Finding original install disc images?
Hi folks, I'm wondering if anyone can help: I'm about to sell my 2010 Mac Pro 5,1 2.66 12-core, but can't find the original discs! :( Waaaah! I've owned 8 Macs and have never, ever misplaced the originals. They're always in 1 particular box, but theses ones aren't there (yet I saw them there... -
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Best 3.5 Internal Hard Drive for Time Machine
Hey everyone, Im looking at getting a new drive/drives for internal time machine in my Mac Pro 2010. Ill probably be backing up a few large files (100gb+) so was thinking to maybe RAID 0 them. Trying to decide between the WD Black because its 7200rpm or the Seagate SSHD but I'm not sure if Time...- wiski15b
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- hard drive mac pro time machine
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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Mac Pro 3,1 - Bad GPU choice?
Hi everyone, I have a Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) 2.8ghz running El Capitan and have decided I want to get into video editing using either Final Cut Pro X or Adobe Premiere Pro (a decision yet to be made) and a bit of GoPro Studio. I currently have the ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB installed and video...- lewis_cooper
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- 2008 3.1 adobe premiere pro final cut pro x gpu graphics card gtx 960 mac pro nvidia radeon
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Anyone know how to setup raid 10 in terminal?
Hey everyone, Anyone here know the steps to setting up raid 10 in terminal (el capitan)? It should still be doable correct? Thanks, Matt- wiski15b
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- mac pro raid terminal
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- Forum: OS X El Capitan (10.11)
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Resolved My Mac Pro is displaying artifacts and will not load OSX.
My Mac Pro 3,1, A1186 EMC 2180 is displaying weird screen artifacts, and, although it chimes, it will not load OS X. It does not seem like it is advancing past apple EFI. My current Graphics Card is an nVIDIA GeForce 8800GT. I have pushed this card to the limit (mainly with rendering 1080p...- bubbly193
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- graphics card mac pro no boot screen artifacts
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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GPU Handling in OS X
Hello! Before I ask my question here is the stats of my mac pro: 2009 Mac Pro (4,1 -- firmware upgraded to 5,1) 8GB DDR3 ECC RAM Intel XEON W3530 2.8GHz 4 Cores 8 Threads OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 My question is that I have two GPUs in the system. One is the stock apple-branded GT120 and the...- SpiffyFilms
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- 2009 final cut pro x gpu mac mac pro monitor multiple monitors os x os x 10.11.4 pro
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Raid 5 over 300MB/s write possible?
Hey everyone, My knowledge concerning external raid is pretty limited. However, I can't seem to find a raid enclosure that can get reasonable write speeds for terabytes of data with redundancy. I'm limited to USB 3 and esata speeds being on a 2009 Mac Pro (no thunderbolt). From what I...- wiski15b
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- esata mac pro raid usb 3.0
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