mac pro (mid 2010)

Like the title says, I have a mid-2010 MacPro 5,1. I recently added more ram (now at 52) and replaced all the hard drives a little over a year ago. It's a great machine, but I do feel like maybe there's a little room for speed improvement. I'm a professional photographer and mostly use...

The Mac Pro 4,1 & 5,1 have plenty of PCIe AUX power, unless you need more than 300 watts for your GPU(s). Remember you get 75 watts from the PCIe slot. Each PCIe AUX 6 pin connector in the Mac Pro towers delivers 150 watts. Yes all three power pins in both of the PCIe AUX plugs are connected...

We installed a Sonnet Tempo SSD in a 6-core Mac Pro 2010 with a Crucial M4 SSD and there didn't seem to be any speed increase over the SATA 2 SSD installed in one of the drive bays. So I tested both with XBench and indeed the Crucial came up with a lower score (430 vs 490), only beating the the...

Has anyone ever managed to get the Mac Pro RAID card working under Windows? I am looking to switch to Windows 7 on my Mac Pro (not wishing to use the latest versions of OS X), and I'd love to do so while still maintaining the ability to use my Mac Pro RAID card for full speed access to my...

Hello! I've recently got a Mac Pro 4.1->5.1 3.33GHz Intel Xeon, 32 GB, 256GB SSD, 2TB HDD and GTX 680 GPU. I do a lot of Music Production so dual booting Windows and Mac is always helpful! I'm just wondering whether its advice on such systems? I've had a look already for previous forum post...

I have a 2010 cMP and I just installed sierra. I'd like to try Siri out, but I need a microphone to do it. I am not sure how good of a mic I need. Part of me would like to use the old PlainTalk mic that apple used to ship with their computers decades ago, but that would take some...

hi guys, one of my friend want to sell his Mac Pro(mid 2010) , 2 Xeon 8 cores 2,4Hz, 32G RAM at very low price. and i already have a Mac Pro also mid 2010 but 1 Xeon processor 6 cores 3,33Hz, 16G RAM. the tow graphic cards are nearly the same performance. my main job is Video Editing(adobe...

Hi Guys, I have a Mid 2010 Mac Pro (DeskTop) and I'm Running Sierra 10.12.1 - With that said I have 2 Apple Cinema Displays which are using the Mini Display Ports on the back of my Mac Pro and I have one HD TV That is Using the DVI Port in the back of my Mac Pro. All of these monitors work...

Hello, I have a 2010 Mac Pro with the stock ATI Radeon 5770. When I boot with a 20" DVI Cinema Display attached, everything works perfectly , I get drive selection if I boot holding option, and I can see the password field to disable FileVault 2. Where my issue arises is that my normal setup...

Hello All, I have updated my 4,1 Mac Pro (Firmware flashed to 5,1) to the latest Sierra build (Gold Master). I am running a GTX 760 via HDMI to my 21:9 monitor. Originally when I had El Capitan I wasn't using the nVidia web driver due to the fact it would not let me display in 21:9. I was using...

hi all i run a 12 core 5.1 (2 x 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon with mountain lion and a gtx570 (3gb twin fan MSI). 64gb ram 1333 MHz DDR3. Mountain Lion 10.8.5 recently in the last week the card has twice turned off the machine and restarted im guessing the gfx card is on the way out, i had the...

Hi all... I have a Mid 2010 MacPro 12 Core (2 x 2.93 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon) with 64 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 ECC + 500GB SSD + QTY 3 x 3TB Internal Drives + 15TB DroboS (using Firewire) + 27" Apple Cinema Display (not Thunderbolt) This was the biggest investment I ever made and it's been the best...