I was able to install Sierra and find out the following:Ĭomputer has the original ATI 5770 video card which I think has EFI Firmware (System Info has EFI Driver Version: 01.00.436) After shutting down I've tried holding the power until it starts blinking and get a long tone but it just continues booting off the USB drive or hard disk. I did get a beach ball for a second but then nothing.
So I'm now thinking why it's not possible to upgrade the processors in my dual 2.66 quad core Intel Xeon Nehalem to the new Westmere 3.33 GHz 6 core Xeon processors.They run the same voltage range so the existing power supply should be fine, have the same 1366. I'm getting so bored of waiting for Apple to bring out a new Mac Pro. When I click the shutdown button in the installer prompting to upgrade firmware, nothing happens. Mac Pro :: 3.33 GHz Westmere 6 Core Xeon Upgrade Apr 14, 2010. I am puzzled by your MacBook Pro comment - no boot screen with an SSD? Did you mean Mac Pro with a non-mac video card? Because the video card's EFI or non-EFI determines whether you see a boot screen.Found a 5,1 dual 2.4 GHz 6-core Mac Pro and am trying to upgrade it to High Sierra but am running into a weird issue trying to upgrade the firmware (blocking the install). So what card you pick will depend on what your use will be. I use mine for video work which will use the graphic card heavily when scrubbing and rendering.
What you decide will depend on what you plan to do with your MP. This is an interesting read on one of the AMD R9 series cards. I did not want to deal with having to go through driver updating every time the OS updated. I picked the card I have because at the time that was the beefiest card I could get that would run on native OS X drivers.
I like Nvidia cards based mostly on my experience using them in PCs. Ideally like a dual processor tray, and toying with getting a half working dual tray on eBay, with a view to either attempting a board fix, or replacing the board later on.
That is the card I use to run my two monitors.Īctually I have no experience with the R9 280X card. My 2009 Mac Pro is a 2.66GHz single CPU, with 16Gb ram, but I have a new tray with a 3.46GHz X5690 and 32Gb ram ready to swap over once Ive done the 5,1 firmware update. The other is a Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 780 with 3GB card that is not flashed. One is the original GT 120 mac card that I do not use unless I need to see the boot screen. When I started my journey to acquire a cMP I did a ton of reading to decide what I wanted. I want do a upgrade on the graphic card but i'm not sure if the power supply of my mac will support it. It is a very long series of posts about graphic cards for the cMP line. Hello everyone I'm using a 2009 early Mac Pro with 2x 2,26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon.
In reading some of the commentary associated with this upgrade, I was wondering if I bought the faster memory chips (1333MHz SDRAM PC3-10600 ECC for Mac Pro Nehalem & Westmere models), will my system get the same boost that many have talked about. Assuming you have a stock Mac Pro 4,1 you could replace your existing 4-Core 2.66 GHz Xeon W3520 with a 3.33 GHz 6 Core Xeon W3680 yourself. It’s also configurable up to 28 processing cores, allowing it to support up to 1.5TB of memory at 2933MHz.
You will need to update the EFI in your Mac Pro so it thinks it's a Mac Pro 5,1 to use the later Xeon CPU's. Mac Pro is powered by Intel Xeon W processors, which feature Turbo Boost, Hyper-Threading, up to 66.5MB of shared 元 cache on a single chip, AVX-512 vector instructions, and 64 PCI Express lanes for massive bandwidth. It has two SSD drives - one for OS X and one that is used as a cache drive for Adobe plus a 1TB HDD for storage.įor more information on graphic cards I would suggest you check out the link I posted above. I have an Early 2009 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon mac pro that I recently ran the 2009 to 2010 firmware update on. Why don't you look at upgrading your CPU as suggested. It is a long set of post starting back in 2012 but when I was putting together my MP and needed information it was very helpful.Īs stated in post #5 above, I have an upgraded 2009 MP. I am not sure how well PC cards will work with a 2009 but I have put a link below that will give you more information. I chose to upgrade my 2009 to a 2010 to keep it eligible for OS upgrades a bit longer. I use my MP for video editing using Adobe CC apps. I have not found a permanent fix for it but the issue started with Sierra. If the MP goes to sleep and then wakes any video it plays is jerky. The only quirk I have seen has to do with Sierra. I also keep the original GT120 in the MP but I do not attach a monitor unless I need to see the boot screen. I currently use a PC video card that has not been flashed which means no boot screen. I have a 2009/2010 Mac Pro (the firmware has been upgraded to make it "think" it is a 2010).