mac pro 2008

A few impressions post-install of OpenCore Monterey on Mac Pro 3,1. Perhaps it could help someone else out if stumbling upon similar issues. My plan/wish was to fully move both my Mac Pro 3,1 to (at least) Monterey. One of them acts like a test-bed to be able to identify what works and what...

so i figured i would try to install linux on my old 3,1. so i installed an old ssd, popped it in, turned on the mac and nothing. i get a solid white led and no chime. nothing on the usb either, hence no led on the mouse and no caps led on the keyboard. so diving into some of the support forums...

Partial Bluetooth functioning on 2008 Mac Pro. No Bluetooth devices discoverable. Logitech MX Master 25 mouse. Mouse has a bluetooth plugin module that has been tested into various USB ports. Movement and clicking works but the scroll wheel does not. After plugging module into a USB port it...

Today I had the task to dig out an old After Effects project and re-render it. The last time I touched it was in early 2009, with my then six-months-old Mac Pro (Early 2008, 8-core). The original render took 1h 41mins. The same exact project, opened in AE today (the beta version optimised for...

Where does this part go? Cleaning out my Mac Pro 2008 (looked like the inside of a vacuum bag with all the dust!) and found this piece floating around unattached. Anyone able to tell me where it goes? Some type of heat sink? Looked at some vintage parts sellers online but couldn't find this...

Setup Mac Pro 2008. Believe its 3,1 Need: replace video card Current card is an ATI XFX Radeon HD 5775 This card was running two 30" Apple Cinema Displays Background After a couple of years one monitor started losing its video feed. The fan started becoming louder. My work is mostly graphics...

First I need to start by saying this is my first Mac. I bought it from an e-scrap recycler. It is a Mac Pro 3.1 with dual xeons. It did not come with an operating system and I have no other macs to try and get a recovery bootable USB from. I know that the latest official supported OS is El...

Hi all I'm trying to install a EFI flashed amd 7970 on my Mac Pro 3,1 with Mojave 10.14.5 with no success.. I even installed a clean 10.14.5 with dosdude patch 1.3.3 without legacy display driver but with amd metal driver sse4.1 patch, but as soon OSX tries to open the GUI the display goes out...

Dear Friends, help me to choose CPU to upgrade my 1CPU cMP 3.1. As I understand it is not worth using 3.2 GHz CPU because of TDP 150w vs 3.0 TPD 80-120 (E or X version). So, I have question: which CPU I can use with Mac Pro 3.1 2008: 1) X5472 or E 5472 2) SLASA or SLANR? (As I remember from...

I recently just got myself a 2008 3.1 Mac Pro. The room it is located in does not have a wired internet connection access, only wifi. I bought a used Airport extreme card that I installed. I used anntenas 3 and 1 to plug into the card. I was able to connect to my network and it says I have full...

Has anyone had any luck installing Win10 on the 3,1 via Boot Camp?

Hello, I have a 2008 Mac Pro that running on 10.11.6 and before I wasn't able to get the computer to access it's booting screens which became a major issue when I was starting to boot camp the computer. After a decent amount of research I determined that the graphics card was the issue after...

Can anybody provide feedback on performance of High Sierra (Beta) on the cMP 3,1? Better or worse than Sierra? I initially installed Sierra 10.12.2 on this Mac Pro early in the year with the specs; 2x 3.2Ghz Quad Core Xeon 16GB DDR2 800Mhz FB-DIMM RAM (8x 2GB) GT 120 Graphics Card (from a...

i recently received a mac pro 3,1 however on trying to power it on all i can hear is the disk drive and hard drive spin up with no fan movement what so ever. There is a red light in the top left corner of the logic board and all the lights on the ram cards are red whether there is ram in them or...

Hi, I was looking one night a few weeks ago about trying to modify Mac OS Sierra's InstallableMachines.plist in the installESD.dmg file. When I noticed it again this morning, I tried messing around with it again, but I still can't add anything. What I want to do is add a Mac Pro 2008 motherboard...

Hi there, i wanted to replace my GeForce GTX680 (2048MB), that i build in last year but it does not really have the performance i expected. I need a good solution for both animated graphics (AE, Premiere) but also for big Photoshop montages. So the question is: What is most powerful Card i...

Hey Guys, i might be able to buy a Mac Pro 3.1 with 2 X Quad Core CPU 2,8 Ghz and the AMD 2600 XT. Do you Guys think that this is still worth buying. And it is a worthy investment to buy a 500GB SSD, a Radeon R9 280X and PCIe USB 3.0 Board? Please let me know if you can give me a...