What's occupying your PCI-e slots?

[Ryatzu]

1. ASUS RX 560 (upgrading to Sapphire Pulse RX 580 8GB when i get my power cable for it)
2. Empty (can't use it because of graphics card)
3. Empty
4. Kingston HyperX Predator SSD M.2 + HHHL PCIe adapter 240GB

 

[h9826790]

Could those two drives be used to boot one from macOS, the other from Windows, or do they have to be some sort of RAID conglomeration?

Not in any RAID.

Can boot MacOS but not Windows. I never try, but that’s what Sonnet says. I suspect because the hard drive considered external. So, cannot boot Windows without work around. But the 840 Evo is my primary MacOS boot drive for quite a few years a already.

 

[bsbeamer]

MacPro 5,1
1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 Official Mac Version
2: Apricorn Velocity Duo x2 (Two SSDs)
3: Apricorn Velocity Solo x2 (One SSD)
4: Inateck KT4004 4 Ports PCI-E to USB 3.0

3 of 4 drive sleds occipied with SSDs in blue OWC sleds
4th occupied with 8TB drive in OWC updated sled (different mounting configuration)

 

[AlexMaximus]

Mac Pro 5,1 (2012) with modded 3,46 Hex Xeon X5xxx CPU

1: Nvidia EVGA 980ti SC 6GB Ram with mac EFI & boot screen
2: HyperX Predator 941 SDD / 960 GB with aftermarket heat sink
3: CalDigit CDGFASTA6GU3Pro / 2xSATA + 2xUSB3
4: Samsung 951 / 512GB HighSpeed SSD on Anglebird PX1 Heat sink with LED mod

 

[Squuiid]

Samsung 951 / 512GB HighSpeed SSD on Anglebird PX1 Heat sink with LED mod

Can I ask what the LED mod is? Have you figured out how to disable the nasty bright white LED?!

 

[flowrider]

^^^^Hmm, mine is mounted in slot 4, The LEDs really don't bother me.

Lou

 

[zozomester]

1. - GTX 980 (Macvidcards)
2. - Amfeltec Squid w/4x Toshiba XG5 256GB
3. - Kingston HyperX Predator SSD M.2 + HHHL PCIe adapter 960GB
4. - Inateck KT4004 USB 3.0

 

[gatd]

can someone please tell me the best slot to put in my pci sata 3 card slot 1 has the gtx680?
thanks

 

[Mac Hammer Fan]

Slot 3 or 4 will do.

 

[gatd]

any reason why not slot 2?

 

[PowerMike G5]

1. Nvidia GTX Titan X
2. Amfeltec Squid w/x4 Samsung SM951 M.2 SSDs
3. AJA Kona 4 uncompressed 4K I/O video card
4. CalDigit FASTA6GU3Pro / 2x SATA & 2x USB3

 

[flowrider]

any reason why not slot 2?

Slot 3 & 4 are 4 Lane, Slot 2 is 16 Lane. Your card requires 4 lanes or less. It will work in slot 2, but it's a waste if you have another card that will take advantage of more than 4 lanes. But, will it work in slot 2, yes. However, that wasn't the question you asked. Mac Hammer's answer was appropriate.

Lou

 

[gatd]

ok thanks for your time and info ,I have 4 cards installed slot 1 gtx 680 slot 2 sata III card slot 3 usb 3 card and slot 4 firewire audio card just want to make sure that this is the best config

 

[Surrat]

MacPro 2009 flashed to 5,1, flashed to APFS 5,1.
Currently dual X5672 cpu's, 32GB 1333 ram.
Runs High Sierra, and Windows 10 Pro.

Slot 4 empty
Slot 3 Sonnet USB-C card
Slot 2 OWC Accelsior S with Samsung 850evo 500GB macOS boot drive
Slot 1 Nvidia Quadro Plex PCIE breakout card

Quadro Plex 2200 D2 has been upgraded to dual Quadro K5000 Mac Editions.
Works perfectly in High Sierra and Win10Pro, has EFI/Option-boot screen on either card.

 

[MP39]

2010 Dual 6-Core X5690 3.46GHz Mac Pro 5,1, 3.4TB mSSD x8 RAID 0, 64GB RAM, 3 x 27" Apple LED Cinema Displays

1. AMD Radeon HD 7950
2. CalDigit FASTA-6GU3 Plus (latest version w/ full 3.1 USB speeds)
3. Addonics PCIe x 4 512GB mSATA*
4. Addonics PCIe x 4 512GB mSATA*

*RAID 0 (~1250Mbps Read/Write BlackMagic)

 

[Zeke D]

Oh, why not...
1. MSI GTX680 2GB flashed
2. empty
3. Velocity Solo X2 with ADATA SU800 128GB SSD
4. OWC Accelsior S with ADATA Premier SP600 128GB SSD

I'd like to get a USB3 card.

 

[zedex]

Updating my prior post:
MacPro 4,1
Flashed to 5,1
Updated with Intel Xeon W3670 @ 3.20GHz 6-core
VMware ESXi 6.5

1. NVIDIA GeForce GT120
2. Fusion-io ioScale 3.20TB
3. Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo 2.41TB
4. Empty

I've owned each of these Fusion-io devices in my cMP - aren't they glorious? (even just to look at!)

I've 'bumped' this thread to ask if the Apple FW140.00 update (native ability to recognise NVMe) means we can use these Fusion-io branded PCIe direct attached flash memory storage devices from High Sierra onwards..

I'm super eager for someone to confirm they actually work beyond macOS 10.10.5 (the last time Fusion-io/Sandisk released an official driver set to "make" these devices work in a Mac)

@bplein -- you know you could take the GT120 up to slot 4 and put another Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo 2.41TB in SLOT1 - that would be monster!!!!!

 

[bplein]

I've owned each of these Fusion-io devices in my cMP - aren't they glorious? (even just to look at!)

I've 'bumped' this thread to ask if the Apple FW140.00 update (native ability to recognise NVMe) means we can use these Fusion-io branded PCIe direct attached flash memory storage devices from High Sierra onwards..

I'm super eager for someone to confirm they actually work beyond macOS 10.10.5 (the last time Fusion-io/Sandisk released an official driver set to "make" these devices work in a Mac)

@bplein -- you know you could take the GT120 up to slot 4 and put another Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo 2.41TB in SLOT1 - that would be monster!!!!!

The firmware (which includes PCIe fixes and support for NVMe) won't help you run Fusion-io cards with macOS on later releases. It requires a signed driver (signed for HS, Mojave, etc.) and they aren't creating new signed drivers. So you can't use an older driver in a newer MacOS version.

I recently did move the GT120 to slot 4 because (a) I am running this as a headless Ubuntu server and don't need video except to debug stuff and (b) I have a Mellanox ConnectX-3 in there now and it needs as many lanes as it can get because it's really a PCIe 3.0 card and I'm running it in a PCIe 2.0 system. But it does 10Gbit Ethernet great, thank you very much! (it's actually dual ported 40GbE but I'm using QSFP+ to SFP+ DAC to connect at 10GbE).

 

[zedex]

Thanks for replying. They're not well known devices amongst MR forum members and I didn't want to blow $200 on one just to test out the possibility (e.g. experiment).

I don't know much about the 10GbE technologies yet..

Since selling my beloved Fusion-io ioDrive2 Duo 2.41TB - I've gone hard with 16-lane devices like the HPT RR2740 (PCIe 2.0 x16), RR2744 (PCIe 2.0 x16), HPT SSD7101A (PCIe 3.0 x16) and finally the IOCrest (Syba) PCIe 3.0 x16 to 2 x M.2 (NVME) Adapter Card.

Anyway - thanks again for the clarification

 

[Boomcha]

2010 Mac Pro 2 x 2.93ghz 6 core, 128GB RAM and

1. Radeon Sapphire RX 580 Pulse 8GB
2. Sonnet Allegro Pro USB 3.1 PCIe 4 slots
3. Samsung 870 Evo on Aquacomputer KryoM.2 Evo card
4. Atto SAS H644 card for LTO-5 Tape backup drive

It's tight but it all fits.

 

[angelsevov]

2010 Mac Pro 2 x X5680 @ 3.33 ghz 6 core (12 threads), 48GB RAM


1- GTX1080 OC

2- TBS6983 Professional DVB-S2 Dual Tuner PCI-e Card (using it under bootcamp, DXing for satellite tv and Data channels, Eumetsat)

3- TBS6522 Multi-standard Dual Tuner PCI-e Card (using it under bootcamp for satellite tv and Data channels, DXing)

4- Fresco Logic xHCI USB3 card (Works flawlessly on both OS)

 

[XNorth]

2012 12-core dual 3.46 GHz 64GB

1. Vega 64 (to be replaced by RX 590)
2. Amfeltec PCIe RAID 0 NVMe
3. Sonnet 10GbE card connected to RAID 5 NAS
4. RocketRAID internal SAS SSD RAID 0

 

[MIKX]

4. 4 port Inatek KTU3FR-4P USB 3.0 SATA powered
3. Samsung 970 EVO 250gb
2. Samsung 960 EVO 250gb
1. Sapphire Dual-X 7970 with EVGA PowerLink. .EFI flashed

 

[Enricote]

4. 4 port Inatek KTU3FR-4P USB 3.0 SATA powered
3. Samsung 960 EVO 250gb
2. Samsung 960 EVO 250gb
1. Sapphire Dual-X 7970 wit EVGA PowerLink. .EFI flashed

My GPU is Sapphire 7950, I guess very similar to 7970. Because of its size one of the PCIe slots is covered and it is not possible to use it for me. So I have only 3 useful slot. Do you use any cable extension or something like that?

 

[MIKX]

Enricote

I'm able to use all 4 PCIe slots with the Sapphire Dual-X 7970 it's a tight fit for my 960 EVO M.2 SSD but PCI area temps are OK.

I use as stated in post #248 an EVGA PowerLink

All info here from Post #1
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/evga-powerlink-with-amd-gpus.2166917/#post-27038019

Note : I had to cut off a little bit from the fan shroud to fit the EVGA PowerLink to the Dual-X 7970