Hi y'all. I was gifted a Mac Pro by my brother in law recently and am wondering what the best thing to do with it is. It's a Mac Pro Xeon 64-bit workstation. As best as I can tell it is a 2006-2008 "Quad core" 2.66. The model No. is A1186 and EMC No. 2113. It currently does not have any modifications to it. If I do upgrade it I'm not gonna need a crazy amount of power on it. I would probably at most just use it for gaming, running some CAD software, and in the future possibly digital testing of parts. I also would like it to have a current OS on it and just for ease of the programs I want to use would probably try to switch it over to windows. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
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MP 1,1-5,1 Upgrading Mac pro 2006
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First you need to verify the model's name of your Mac Pro
If it is an MP 1,1 or 2,1
Newest OS: Windows 10-64bit
Newest support Mac OS: OS X Lion (10.7.5)
Installable Mac OS: El Capitan (10.11.6)
That's an Early 2006 Mac Pro (MacPro1,1).
See the possible updates in the previous post.
You can upgrade the processors to 3.0MHz which is a nice kick and windows 10 is possible install if you like to tinker. Other Mac Os's require "tinkering" as well and this is the right place to ask.