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  1. R

    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5,1 Ram Compatibility

    Hello. I'm new to the MAC world and don't know much about them yet. Within the last 2 years or so I obtained a Mac Pro 5,1 dual processor that had bootcamp installed and running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit OS. The computer runs very well with the set up/hardware it has in it but I wanted to upgrade...
  2. Henrique S

    MP 1,1-5,1 [4,1 Dual] - Dead Processor tray after upgrade?

    I need some help from the many Mac Pro experts that populate this outstanding forum :) I was commissioned to upgrade a dual 4,1 (dual quad 2.93GHz) to a fully fledged 5,1 running dual X5680’s. The machine temps were running a little high and the fans were running speedier than usual, but I...
  3. imrazor

    MP 1,1-5,1 Cheesegrater gaming & VR

    I have a cMP5,1 with a Vega 56 that I mostly use for light video editing, web surfing, email, media consumption, iPhone management, etc. While I do work in IT, the vast majority of my work is in either Windows, UNIX or Linux. I've decided to test its gaming capabilities to see if it might make a...
  4. Robsalazar

    Mac Pro 5,1 Ram Not recognized - Please Help

    Hi, I have A Mac Pro 5,1 single cpu which I upgraded to a Westmere X5690 3.46 6 Core processor . A couple of days ago my computer crashed. A week later I realized that instead of the 4 Ram Dimms (4gb each) my computer only recognized three of them. So I uninstalled the RAM DIMMS and installed...
  5. tikku22

    MacOS Weirdly Unresponsive

    Hi Folks, I have a Mac Pro 5,1 running High Sierra v10.13.3. Recently, I installed a new Sapphire Radeon RX580 GPU as detailed here... LINK ...super thanks to the guys that advised on that thread! I finally got the cables and installed the card and everything is up and running, but seem to be...
  6. enjoycompany

    MP 1,1-5,1 Mac Pro 5 shutting down randomly

    Problem seems to be less when in the Aircon of my workshops so something is overhearing below is the log 1.0.0d1 com.apple.AppleFSCompression.! Unable to gather system configuration information.Model: MacPro5,1, BootROM MP51.007F.B03, 4 processors, Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 2.8 GHz, 8 GB, SMC...