MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 CPU Recommendations

[MarkC426]

Is there a particular reason you need/want boot screens.
Most do not actually need it, which gives you a wider choice of GPU.

 

[MoerBoer]

X5677's are cheap but you won't get a massive jump between your current setup and going to X5677's.

Here's a Geekbench 5 results on my system:

MacPro5,1 - Geekbench

Benchmark results for a MacPro5,1 with an Intel Xeon X5677 processor.

browser.geekbench.com

 

[kohlson]

The threads are too long now unless there is some new summary thread I don't know about.

I haven't done this - #1,314 - yet, but the reports are good. I was an early adopter of the Hex Method for AMD Hardware Acceleration, and found that @h9826790 's instructions are good. If there was any issue, it was me not following the instructions exactly.

But I have followed that the Opencore thread for sometime. Like all "brain surgery" there is a good discussion of things to watch out for/didn't work/tips. As I have upgraded my 4/5,1 cMP along the way, in ways that Apple never foresaw, I like to be informed. You may feel differently.

 

[macinPr1mus]

Cool, I guess it was when I still hadn't upgraded to High Sierra that I downloaded 4. (and wanted to compare against my old machine with direct #'s. I'll post my 5 results in a bit.
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Nice, baseline model of 2019 Mac Pro is 8000ish, coming in at 6000ish isn't damn bad for 2009 Mac.

 

[pegamonstro]

that's actually a good result I would assume, I got this on GB5

 

[KeesMacPro]

Geekbench 5 with 2X 3.46 GHz looks like this in my MP:
EDIT: 5.1.1

 

[tommy chen]

there are also different results with GB 5.0, 5.1 and 5.11 !