mac pro (2010)

I turn to you because I am forever grateful to you all who have shown me the way to hot rod my Mac Pro. Right now, I’m losing this battle and I hope you guys will see the course of action I cannot. So I’ll be as clear as possible: last year- level up to 10.13.6 and 144.0.0.0.0 install...

Hello to all; I need to upgrade my «old» Mac Pro. I wanted to buy and install a Radeon VII on it... Can anyone share some links (Amazon.co.uk/eBay.fr/whatever) on Europe, where I can find the needed parts, to make the PIXLAS Mod? I would be really grateful for the help; thank you in advance...

Hi guys, I've just bought a Mac Pro 5,1 from Cex here in the UK (as they give a 2 year warranty with everything they sell), delivered yesterday afternoon and was working great. I then decided to install a later version of Mac OS onto a spare SSD I had instead of the aging 1TB spinning drive. I...

I've been using Bootcamp on my Mac Pro 5,1 running Windows 10, I'm really starting to hate using it for various reasons. I need Windows 10 for certain school related programs and for the occasional gaming. I wanted to look into my options of running VM's of Windows with high speeds, without...

Hi everyone, I've reviewed the compatibility list, but want to check.... can I upgrade a single-CPU Mid-2010 Mac Pro 5,1 with a Nehalem Xeon W3565 to a single Westmere X5690? And if so, is that the best CPU I can use in this single-CPU situation (w/o upgrading the backplane)?

Hi, My Mac Pro 5.1 has experienced a power outage, and after that I have been unable to boot it succesfully. I get to the Logo screen with the progress bar getting slowly to 100% and then it stays there. I have tried all shortcuts when booting, and I haven't even been able to get the Recovery...

Hello, I have a Mac Pro 5,1 and I'm exploring what direction to head when support for macOS Software Updates ends (either with Mojave or Catalina). Unfortunately, I'm not the target audience for a 2019 Mac Pro. I prefer a tower and am considering a PC. However, since my Mac Pro is running fine...

Two years ago I bought a customized Mac Pro 5,1 with a GTX 980 GPU and a 1TB boot drive with Raid 0 made up of four Samsung 860 EVO SSD mSATA on some PCIe card (I forget which). I’ve never opened this thing up until recently when I switched from the 6 Core to the 12 Core. The day I ordered it...

Hello, This is my first post here and I am hoping someone can answer this for me. I recently bought a Broadcom BCM94360CD w/ Bluetooth 4.0 upgrade kit similar to the OSXWifi kit and the BT 4.2 kit sold on eBay that is from China. The kit I bought includes a Mini PCIe adapter that has the...

Hi, Can somebody help me with the correct steps in order to upgrade my Mac Pro 5.1 from High Sierra to Catalina, with a new RX5700 GPU ? At this moment everything in my MP 5.1 is standard with default GPU + OSX is currently updated to high sierra. I wonder if it is actually possible to run the...

Hi, So I have my Windows 10 boot drive on a 240gig sata ssd, and I have my Mac boot drive as the 970evo 500gig in a pcie slot with an adapter. I find myself staying on Windows a lot more for certain programs I need and the occasional gaming. I want to migrate my windows boot drive from my...

I am looking to upgrade the memory in my Mid 2010 5,1 6-core Mac Pro and I want to get to at least 48gb. If I understand correctly it is best to use 3 sticks (like I am currently doing... 3x4gb) due to the triple channel memory controller. Is there really a noticeable difference in running...

I have four Mac Pro’s - two 2010’s all fully upgraded with current tech (one running Thunderbolt 3 via Windows cold boot to load drivers) and two 2013 Mac Pro’s. I’m unloading one of my 2010’s and would love some advice on pricing. The tough issue is that it’s fully upgraded with current tech...

Hey all- i'll try and make it short and sweet: I've seen some threads suggesting that DDR3 (NON-ECC) ram will work with the 5,1. People have apparently gotten it to work. Here are my current system specs: Mac Pro 5,1 (2012) 1x Xeon X5680 16GB 1333MHz DDR3 ECC Radeon RX 590 8GB I'm looking to...

Hello, recently I've got a new fully working Mac Pro 5.1. I've upgraded it with RX 580 and PCI-E m2 ( MP 5.1 is on latest bootrom ) card and everything worked fine for multiple days until I have recently reseted NVRAM. No start chime, black screen, Mac and GPU fans are spinning after that. I...

This happened yesterday, not sure if it is a bad update or what but my Mac pro keeps crashing. Any ideas? Anonymous UUID: 7E396CC4-53BC-075A-A523-081E0713A6BD Fri Nov 1 01:15:26 2019 *** Panic Report *** Panic(CPU 6, time 1797930528612): NMIPI for unresponsive processor: TLB flush...

I'm looking for an inexpensive upgrade path for my MacPro 5,1 from my dual quad 2.4GHz to dual hex 2.9 and up. I have a few can I use the existing 64GB 1066 MHz RAM or do I need to scrap it and buy 1366 MHz RAM? ive been up and down this list...

Hey there! I’ve updated my Mac Pro 5,1 2010 starting from 10.12.6 over 10.13.6 to 10.14.6 today. Boot menu works, booting to safe-mode works. But after about 3/4 of the loading bar the screen goes black. It sounds as if the boot process goes on correctly, I just can’t see anything. It did still...

Hi, long time lurker here. I have recently upgraded from a Flashed GTX 780 to an AMD Sapphire Pulse 580. I purchased the card to save some time rendering but comparing my prior benchmarks AE only has a 5% increase and C4D has no performance increase at all. Anyone have some insight to what I...

Hi, I just bought a Mac Pro 5.1. Single Processor Xeon 2.8 Ghz and ATI Radeon HD 5770. The computer came with Snow Leopard installed so my next step was to begin the upgrade process to at least High Sierra until I buy a Metal compatible GPU. The problem I came up with was that I foolishly...