On my mac pro 2010 i initially had severe problems with win 10. After a few days the windows file system always got corrupted so that it could not be repaired in any way. Then after several tries i made a new and clean reinstall of win 7, NO BOOTCAMP SUPPORT drivers, then upgraded to win 10. When you see the Mac OS X desktop, choose the Apple ( ) menu from the upper-left menu bar, then choose About This Mac. The total memory includes the amount of memory that originally came with the computer plus the new memory you added, or if all the memory.
Hello, I have a macpro 1.1 (2x2.66Ghz, RAM 12GB, stock GT7300 card) to upgrade to El Capitan. It's hooked to an Apple Cinema Display HD 23'. It's used (intensively: 10h per day since 2006!!!) only for Microsoft Office (2008) and Photoshop/Illustrator CS3 (not more, old licences.), Internet and Google Earth. No games, nor Windows. I read almost all post about video card here, without making a choice. Which option is the best for you? It have to be the cheapest, easiest (Boot Screen, installation, should work under 10.7 and 10.11), reliable option.
I do not want to 'flash' card, also, even If I should be able to do that with my Hackintosh. I found a list of working 'out of the box' card in their Mac versions: - ATI Radeon X1900XT - ATI Radeon 2600XT - nVidia GeForce 8800GT - nVidia GeForce GT120 - ATI Radeon HD3870 - ATI Radeon HD4870 - GeForce GTX285 - ATI Radeon HD5770/HD58770 - nVidia Quadro 4000 Does a simple 8800GT will be enough? I would rebuild your ten year old Mac Pro 1,1 (2006). It's not too difficult and will survive even longer if you do, under load conditions. It's a rock solid Mac that will run non-high performance apps in El Cap with some modest upgrades. It would be better if you had OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite, as the latest OS X version will not be as solid. Get a SSD for your OS X and a genuine Mac Edition ATI 5770 (which has EFI).
This is a proven configuration for your needs. A real 5770 will look like this, notice the black card support guide and dual mDP ports: You should also buy one rebuilt or learn to rebuild it yourself, as it is 6 years old.
Don't worry, most of your other choices are even older. Here are the instructions on how to rebuild an ATI 5770 Mac Edition. Click to expand.I would not recommend a flashed card, if you can get a real Mac Edition. There are just too many issues with them. I would only do this as a last resort, like when there never was a real Mac Edition ever made (e.g. Using a flashed PC Edition 5770 didn't work out for this guy, that also has a Mac Pro 1,1 running a modern 64 bit Mac OS X install. He wound up stalling his boot sequence so bad he had to return the card and it was professionally flashed: Forget all the days of agony involved, just get the real deal.
Click to expand. It's 'Let's have fun time.' What the latest Mac Mini cannot do that a ten year old upgraded Mac Pro 1,1 can. 1) Have 8 Cores.
2) Have 64GB of installed memory. 3) Have 24TB of hard drives installed internally.
4) And also have a bootable 2TB SSD installed internally. 5) Have a GTX 980 Ti installed internally. 6) Have a Blu-Ray drive installed internally. 7) Have a 2 GB/s mSAS connection. And, it can do all of this simultaneously. Enjoy your Mini toy.
You can believe what you want, but the 1,1 and 2,1 are really past their prime and have serious bottlenecks all over the place. Unless you run specific apps that can utilize 8 cores, the Mac Mini can run circles around it. By the time you spend all that money to put: 2) Have 64GB of installed memory. 3) Have 24TB of hard drives installed internally.
4) And also have a bootable 2TB SSD installed internally. 5) Have a GTX 980 Ti installed internally. 6) Have a Blu-Ray drive installed internally.
7) Have a 2 GB/s mSAS connection. You can have a much better machine that's faster, more efficient, and cooler running, whether it be a more modern Mac Pro, iMac, or Mac Mini.
In the original post, the OP mentioned Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Illustrator, Internet, and Google Earth. A GTX 980 Ti would do little to nothing for him, neither would two blu-ray drives, and he didn't mention having any problems with lack of storage which can be easily remedied with external storage. Rather than throwing money at such an old machine by purchasing an outdated video card, why not just save up for a newer, more modern computer? You can believe what you want, but the 1,1 and 2,1 are really past their prime and have serious bottlenecks all over the place. Unless you run specific apps that can utilize 8 cores, the Mac Mini can run circles around it. By the time you spend all that money to put: 2) Have 64GB of installed memory. 3) Have 24TB of hard drives installed internally.
4) And also have a bootable 2TB SSD installed internally. 5) Have a GTX 980 Ti installed internally. 6) Have a Blu-Ray drive installed internally. 7) Have a 2 GB/s mSAS connection. You can have a much better machine that's faster, more efficient, and cooler running, whether it be a more modern Mac Pro, iMac, or Mac Mini. In the original post, the OP mentioned Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Illustrator, Internet, and Google Earth. A GTX 980 Ti would do little to nothing for him, neither would two blu-ray drives, and he didn't mention having any problems with lack of storage which can be easily remedied with external storage.
Rather than throwing money at such an old machine by purchasing an outdated video card, why not just save up for a newer, more modern computer? Click to expand.Hehehe You originally said 'Mac Mini.'
Now you have added two more models after your Mini got flattened. This sounds like a fair fight! Would you be as kind to price out, say, a Cylinder with components that match or exceed the performance of what I just designed with our humble Mac Pro 1,1? You'll win this contest, but I will enjoy seeing your System Build as its price tag reaches the stratosphere. And, it will still look really ugly on someone's desktop with all those cables and expansion boxes. Our 1,1 has everything internally installed. Nice and neat and sweet.
If you like, I'll do it for you later as I have to take my daily jog now. Hehehe You originally said 'Mac Mini.'
Now you have added two more models after your Mini got flattened. This sounds like a fair fight! Would you be as kind to price out, say, a Cylinder with components that match or exceed the performance of what I just designed with our humble Mac Pro 1,1? You'll win this contest, but I will enjoy seeing your System Build as its price tag reaches the stratosphere. And, it will still look really ugly on someone's desktop with all those cables and expansion boxes.
Our 1,1 has everything internally installed. Nice and neat and sweet.
If you like, I'll do it for you later as I have to take my daily jog now. Click to expand.Your 7300GT won't work, but I suspect you know this already or you wouldn't be asking in the first place. The 8800GT is the absolute minimum for 10.11. On the other hand, with Apple occasionally dropping support for older GPUs and Metal support becoming more useful, I'd personally go with something newer like a 5770. If you get the bare minimum 8800GT you might have to do this all over again soon with the next release or two of OS X. On the third hand, there's no guarantee the next couple of releases of OS X can be made to work on the 1,1 anyway. So buying a 5770 or better for the purposes of future-proofing may end up not being worthwhile.
Click to expand.I have not forgotten, as I build cMPs every week of the year. But a decent graphics card like a AMD 7950 in a cMP will greatly outperform the integrated Iris of the Mini, even if the 7950 is running in a PCIe Rev 1.1 slot. My MP 1,1 Build only had one SSD, but with twice the capacity of the biggest solid state device in the modern Mini. It will not have very high throughput in a PCIe 1.1 slot, so it should not be used for writing workflow data. It would perform nicely as a boot and app drive due to its high IOPS.
Have you ever worked with PCIe SAS RAID in a cMP, pastrychef? This is your high performance drive array dream achieved. Assuming you could get graphics card support in a cMP 1,1, a four drive internal array is fast enough (up to 2000 MB/s) to write 4K RAW without latency. If we were to use four SSDs, mounted in a DX4 and powered by an optical drive logic board header pass-through cable. But that is exactly the point. It is a comparison of a System that has an open architecture (cMP) and a System that has a mostly closed architecture (Mac Mini).
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They are two entirely different products with different capabilities. The ten year old Mac Pro 1,1 are still used professionally by editors. Mostly music guys running Ableton and Cubase, although I do have clients that prefer to run older versions of Logic and Pro Tools. I have not forgotten, as I build cMPs every week of the year. But a decent graphics card like a AMD 7950 in a cMP will greatly outperform the integrated Iris of the Mini, even if the 7950 is running in a PCIe Rev 1.1 slot. My MP 1,1 Build only had one SSD, but with twice the capacity of the biggest solid state device in the modern Mini. It will not have very high throughput in a PCIe 1.1 slot, so it should not be used for writing workflow data.
It would perform nicely as a boot and app drive due to its high IOPS. Have you ever worked with PCIe SAS RAID in a cMP, pastrychef? This is your high performance drive array dream achieved. Assuming you could get graphics card support in a cMP 1,1, a four drive internal array is fast enough (up to 2000 MB/s) to write 4K RAW without latency. If we were to use four SSDs, mounted in a DX4 and powered by an optical drive logic board header pass-through cable.
I don't drive the race cars. I just build them. But pro apps tend to be highly threaded with my clients. So if the hardware is present, the apps will likely take advantage of it. A creative client just today brought in an eight core Mac Pro 3,1 (2008) for rebuild servicing and he mentioned that Logic Pro 10.1 takes full advantage of all eight cores and runs his projects nicely. Not too bad for an 8 year old machine running a very recent version of an Apple pro app. Hello, I have a macpro 1.1 (2x2.66Ghz, RAM 12GB, stock GT7300 card) to upgrade to El Capitan.
It's hooked to an Apple Cinema Display HD 23'. It's used (intensively: 10h per day since 2006!!!) only for Microsoft Office (2008) and Photoshop/Illustrator CS3 (not more, old licences.), Internet and Google Earth. No games, nor Windows. I read almost all post about video card here, without making a choice. Which option is the best for you? It have to be the cheapest, easiest (Boot Screen, installation, should work under 10.7 and 10.11), reliable option.
I do not want to 'flash' card, also, even If I should be able to do that with my Hackintosh. I found a list of working 'out of the box' card in their Mac versions: - ATI Radeon X1900XT - ATI Radeon 2600XT - nVidia GeForce 8800GT - nVidia GeForce GT120 - ATI Radeon HD3870 - ATI Radeon HD4870 - GeForce GTX285 - ATI Radeon HD5770/HD58770 - nVidia Quadro 4000 Does a simple 8800GT will be enough? Click to expand.Apple is going to drop support quickly anyways for everything, whereas the build quality of these Mac Pros, properly maintained, virtually guarantees one or two decades of longevity.
When I was a pro manufacturer of durable goods and chemicals, we depreciated tools and equipment over a period of decades. It involves the TCO. These Macs are so well made and robust, we unexpectedly face a similar situation.
In my neck of the woods, there is a sizable market for capable OS X workstations in the sub-$1000 category. Maybe, sub $1500 category if it can handle nice performance still and video editing and demonstration (like AR).
Few creatives here are going to buy a brand new Cylinder (or the product that replaces the current nMP) for 3000+ bucks. I'm not located on the West coast or in a big city out East. The Mac community here is relatively small and permanently broke. I think what you are really looking for, Aiden, is a method for time-sharing Tianhe-2.