Hello everybody this is my very first thread I think ever on here. For those who don’t know me I have a YouTube channel that gained some notoriety for my Mac Pro Series. I dropped the series for over a year now but I am bringing it back very soon to continue doing tutorials and stuff but that’s not the point of this thread...
I came up with an idea I have passed along to a few friends that I will not name currently, and we will be using my two Mac Pros as guinea pigs. The idea is to use my friend’s ROM patching tools to add more CPU support to the 1,1-3,1 Pros. I barely know how to do anything with coding but I do know how to experiment and come up with ideas. They on the other hand will be attempting to help me figure out how to make this work...
What is the idea? Our first goal is to add SLBxx stepping CPU support to the 3,1 and we’re not really sure if it’s going to be possible. But with the tools we have on hand we have a better chance now than we have ever had on adding the support. Then you will never have to worry about which stepping your CPU is for the 3,1 and this will also enable you to use the X5492 3.4GHz CPUs (Probably).
If we are successful on trying to get this to work on the 3,1, we are then going to go into the more complex task of adding SSE4.1 1333FSB Xeon support to the 1,1/2,1 (example the X5470 3.33GHz).
This in turn will add the ability to boot Sierra and later on these Pros as long as someone can write the boot.efi for it work or make some kind of patch tool.
Why you may ask are we trying to do this?
These systems are dirt cheap, in some cases you can get them for free. Spec’d out nicely they can keep up with lower end Macs from around 2014 (maybe later) and back which is still pretty darn powerful even today. I am not setting any guarantees that we can actually get this to work, but my friends have the knowledge and I have the systems and if anyone can get this to work it will be us. I will keep you guys updated on the progress. It will be possibly a very slow endeavor... I am currently waiting on some cheap CPUs to come in the mail to start this process & if we happen to fail with the 3,1 we will probably just stop the whole project. That is unless we get strong community feedback and suggestions... this is all experimental and we are not sure if this will work at all but it’s a neat idea and if it’s going to happen it will happen with us.
As this project goes along I will reveal all the people working on this along with me but currently said people probably don’t want any more publicity on their plate until something gets traction... If this all works out I will be making videos on the process and will be turning this post into a wiki post so the creators of everything can edit it and explain how to get to work. But for now we’re just putting this out there for you guys. Let’s see where it takes us.
I came up with an idea I have passed along to a few friends that I will not name currently, and we will be using my two Mac Pros as guinea pigs. The idea is to use my friend’s ROM patching tools to add more CPU support to the 1,1-3,1 Pros. I barely know how to do anything with coding but I do know how to experiment and come up with ideas. They on the other hand will be attempting to help me figure out how to make this work...
What is the idea? Our first goal is to add SLBxx stepping CPU support to the 3,1 and we’re not really sure if it’s going to be possible. But with the tools we have on hand we have a better chance now than we have ever had on adding the support. Then you will never have to worry about which stepping your CPU is for the 3,1 and this will also enable you to use the X5492 3.4GHz CPUs (Probably).
If we are successful on trying to get this to work on the 3,1, we are then going to go into the more complex task of adding SSE4.1 1333FSB Xeon support to the 1,1/2,1 (example the X5470 3.33GHz).
This in turn will add the ability to boot Sierra and later on these Pros as long as someone can write the boot.efi for it work or make some kind of patch tool.
Why you may ask are we trying to do this?
These systems are dirt cheap, in some cases you can get them for free. Spec’d out nicely they can keep up with lower end Macs from around 2014 (maybe later) and back which is still pretty darn powerful even today. I am not setting any guarantees that we can actually get this to work, but my friends have the knowledge and I have the systems and if anyone can get this to work it will be us. I will keep you guys updated on the progress. It will be possibly a very slow endeavor... I am currently waiting on some cheap CPUs to come in the mail to start this process & if we happen to fail with the 3,1 we will probably just stop the whole project. That is unless we get strong community feedback and suggestions... this is all experimental and we are not sure if this will work at all but it’s a neat idea and if it’s going to happen it will happen with us.
As this project goes along I will reveal all the people working on this along with me but currently said people probably don’t want any more publicity on their plate until something gets traction... If this all works out I will be making videos on the process and will be turning this post into a wiki post so the creators of everything can edit it and explain how to get to work. But for now we’re just putting this out there for you guys. Let’s see where it takes us.
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