MP 1.1 squeezing the juice out

[Homercon]

or squeezing the life out of it?

I've been lurking here for years. you guys have provided so much valuable information. went apple in like 2013 and haven't looked back much. started with a 2006ish mbp 2.4 ghz 17 inch (still use it every day) and quickly decided to grab a cheap Mac pro off Craigslist the same year. main use is logic x.

my Mac 1.1 flashed to 2.1
El cap
2x 2.66 GHz quad core xeons
64 GB used eBay non-apple RAM (heatspreaders)
240gb silicon power SSD boot drive with adapter to fit 3.5 inch drive sled
Seagate 1Tb 3.5 internal with Mavericks and win7 bootcamp partition
broadcom bcm94360cd AC wifi + bT 4.0
Nvidia MSI GTX 660 "twin frozr III" 2gb

I love this machine. it has been fun keeping it's head above water so to speak. no boot screen but it boots so fast it makes no difference to me.

my wifi hasn't worked well since being installed... seems to turn itself on and off constantly and endlessly so I just use Ethernet. BT is not detected at all. did pram reset and it didn't help. reseated card and nothing. thinking I have a dud.

I would like to get it working and get me one of those fancy apple trackpads and keyboard. I'm still hanging on to my 2005 Logitech G5. might be time for a change there.

also, would a GPU upgrade be a good idea? I haven't kept up to much with video cards and don't even know why I ended up with the 660 gtx. I wouldn't mind trying Destiny 2 in bootcamp.

Mac pro towers are pure art.

thanks to everyone for helping keep these work horses running for the past 11 years.

 

[z970]

Pretty sure the GTX 660 is good enough, and you could try upgrading the processors to the 2,1 3 GHz ones, if I recall those were what they shipped with. As for everything else, I think you might have it as good as it gets.

Probably totally irrelevant, but a nice tip I like to carry around is that you could validate all fonts and check for duplicates within Font Book. You could also get Onyx and run all the procedures. Repair disk permissions too. These will likely increase performance by a fair amount, if you're interested.

 

[orph]

for logic it looks close to the max of a 1.1 (is it having problems there? it gives info if you are cpu/disc speed limited/ram limited) as for destiny 2
https://us.battle.net/support/en/article/109713
id gess you can run it but not on high, i thik it's more of a CPU problem.
if you relay want a gpu upgrade a GTX680 is cheep on ebay or look at maybe a rx460/rx560?

ps look here for wifi/BT https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...on-mac-pro-2010-keep-updating.1748061/page-37