MP 1,1-5,1 Suggestions for Performance Improvements on 09' 5.1 cMP build

[Dahjxiii]

What's up all,

I've been perusing the forums for a few years getting bits and pieces and upgrading my 4'1 cMP, but I'm still having some issues and I don't think it's the age, I'm sure I just need some suggestions on how to best utilize the machine because I'm sure I'm missing something.

So here's what we got:

Running macOS Mojave 10.14.6 on a 4,1 flashed to 5,1 cMP
2 x 3.46ghz 6-core Intel Xeon
64GB 1333 MHz DDR3
RX580 GPU 8gb
Bootroom 144.0.0.0.0




Internals include: (I'm sure upgrading HD's is a part of what could be "Wrong")
Drive Bay - 500gb SATA drive 7200 rpm
Drive Bay - 2TB IronWolf 6Gb/s 5900 RPM 64MB Cache
Drive Bay - 300gb 5400RPM 8MB Cache SATA drive
Drive Bay - 2TB Ironwolf 6Gb/s 5900 RPM 64MB Cache (TimeMachine)

PCIe - 250gb SATA III 6Gb/s(Boot - User acts + Apps)
PCIe - USB 3.1 4 ports x2

Upgraded Wifi/Bluetooth Card to accommodate AirDrop and connecting to 5g, etc.

Externals include:

USB 3.1 - 2 Seagate 5TB HDD

HDMI (Via RX580) - 27-inch (1920 x 1080)x2


Alright, I think that's about it, to at least get a gist of what I'm working with. For what I need it for, it should be just about enough, maybe more than enough, but it isn't. I find it choking up doing simple things, like opening up 2 or more apps that were minimized. Every now and then something crashes and says it has to start again for whatever reason. Opening Apps takins much longer than I would have thought.
I'm a photographer/videographer. Adobe Suite, Final Cut, Premier are huge apps I use all the time. I usually have a few things running in the background, Carbon Copy Cloner making redundancies every 12hour, Backblaze backing stuff up to the cloud every CoB, things like that.

Basically, looking at what I currently have running, how can I improve the performance of my cMP? Is part of the slow down maybe a script error? My knowledge & subsequent experimenting has gone as far as using DosDudes Hacked method to achieve Mojave the initial time, and then running through @tsialex method for a clean install and updating mojave through that method &, hardware wise, the wifi/bluetooth card. So I haven't messed with scripts, deliberately, & I haven't gotten into the over/underclocking GPU's because I didn't think I needed to go there for what I need it for but, even with the upgrades it does have, it's not moving as quickly as i know (and seen) a 2 x 3.46ghz 12 core with 64gb of RAM can move. I haven't bothered to upgrade to 4k Monitors because even using LR of PS, using my graphics card, I'm still hung up on SIMPLE adjustments and simple scrolling through images quickly or zooming in and out causes it to hang for about 90 seconds - I'm not all too sure what to do at this point.

Apologies for the long post, any help would be greatly appreciated! Any further build questions, please feel free to ask.

Thanks!

 

[h9826790]

Assume your Mojave is clean, "I'm still hung up on SIMPLE adjustments and simple scrolling through images quickly or zooming in and out causes it to hang for about 90 seconds" <--- may be one of your HDD is faulty. This can explain why the cMP hang for such a long time even with some simple task (the cMP was standing by for the I/O return from the faulty HDD).

For testing purpose, I will remove all HDD, and see if that make any difference (I also assume that 250GB drive on the PCIe SATA III card is a SSD).

 

[Macschrauber]

+1 for a failing hard drive

Run DriveDX (Demo) to scan the health of the Drives.

 

[Dahjxiii]

Assume your Mojave is clean, "I'm still hung up on SIMPLE adjustments and simple scrolling through images quickly or zooming in and out causes it to hang for about 90 seconds" <--- may be one of your HDD is faulty. This can explain why the cMP hang for such a long time even with some simple task (the cMP was standing by for the I/O return from the faulty HDD).

For testing purpose, I will remove all HDD, and see if that make any difference (I also assume that 250GB drive on the PCIe SATA III card is a SSD).

Yeah, I believe it is. Went through the process of updating through apple from High Sierra - is there a possibility that it isn't clean even still?

& Yeah, it's a SSD. I'll remove them and try that out and see.
Thank you!
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+1 for a failing hard drive

Run DriveDX (Demo) to scan the health of the Drives.

I just ran DriveDX and my 500GB HDD has a warning but that's the only thing showing for the entirety of the report. Everything has above 85% health. I'll change out the HDD but I don't run off of anything in that drive really, it's all just additional storage.