MP 1,1-5,1 PCIe wifi card?

[AngelThMan]

I have a 2009 Mac Pro 5,1 and the wifi is a little slow/unstable. Is there a PCIe wifi card anyone can recommend that is compatible with my system? If not, is there another solution? Would appreciate any help. Thanks.

 

[BrianBaughn]

A good place to start looking would be at the tonymac86 hackintosh site…in the builders guide section.

Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: The Ultimate Buyer's Guide

www.tonymacx86.com

 

[paalb]

I have a 2009 Mac Pro 5,1 and the wifi is a little slow/unstable. Is there a PCIe wifi card anyone can recommend that is compatible with my system? If not, is there another solution? Would appreciate any help. Thanks.

This was discussed here recently: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/opencore-on-the-mac-pro.2207814/post-30549150

 

[AngelThMan]

Thanks for trying guys, but those are for Hackintosh, which are PC hardware. I have a Mac Pro 5,1.

 

[avro707]

Thanks for trying guys, but those are for Hackintosh, which are PC hardware. I have a Mac Pro 5,1.

The Fenvi one mentioned recently by tsialex works on MacPro.

I personally used the upgrade card that replaces the default MacPro wifi and bluetooth. This upgrade is more work to install but once it is done you don't see it at all and it doesn't take up PCI-E slots.

For me slots are:
1: Sonnet NVME card
2. RX580 GPU
3. forget it, blocked by RX580
4. Titan Ridge 2 card

That's something to consider later on.

 

[paalb]

Thanks for trying guys, but those are for Hackintosh, which are PC hardware. I have a Mac Pro 5,1.

Not Hacintosh, my link above is from 5,1 discussion.

 

[ddhhddhh2]

This is my reference for wifi and Bluetooth upgrade on my Mac Pro 5,1. I have already upgraded my system to Catalina (because the new OS doesn't recognize wifi and Bluetooth of the old model), so I use this solution as the standard upgrade. For your reference.

Classic Mac Pro (5,1): Upgrade Wi-Fi to 802.11ac and Bluetooth to 4.0

It is worth noting that you need to buy a wire called U.Fl Ipx (sorry I am not familiar with that field, but I know that wire can connect them to each other), you can see the picture I attached.

My purchase list is

1. BCM94360CD to mini PCI-E adapter card (with cable)
2. BCM94360CD chip (no driver required in macOS)
3. U.Fl Ipx cable

With these things, you can complete this upgrade. The attached link has detailed instructions (thanks to the kind gentleman) and there is no need to remove the motherboard during the process, just a deft !

 

[MacNB2]

Thanks for trying guys, but those are for Hackintosh, which are PC hardware. I have a Mac Pro 5,1.

LoL..your MacPro 5,1 is a PC architecture that Intel helped Apple to design even though it may not look like a "standard" PC.