- Mac pro 5.1 dual processor tray install#
- Mac pro 5.1 dual processor tray upgrade#
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- Mac pro 5.1 dual processor tray pro#
So far, it seems like it can.Īnother issue, while gaming specifically, is that due to the relatively weak single thread capabilities of the CPUs, is that although average frame rates were decent, the fluctuation of the highest frame rates to the lowest frame rates in a single game could vary wildly causing jarring stuttering at times but not enough for me to state that the game was unplayable. I'm seeing if along it's lifespan, various upgrades and updates can keep it within an acceptable performance level.
Mac pro 5.1 dual processor tray pro#
Remember, I'm not looking to see if the 2009 Mac Pro can best a modern equivalent. Benching between various tests the difference was only a few percentage points lower when using reduced power but the benefits of having both GPUs was still apparent. In fact, in order for me to have stability, I had to reduce the power draw on the GPUs so that it didn't shut off my Mac Pro since the power draw was too high.
Firstly, the Nehalem CPUs aren't nearly fast enough to properly feed one let alone two of the RX 580 GPUs.
Mac pro 5.1 dual processor tray install#
Although I was able to install two modern GPUs in this machine, there are a couple of allowances I had to accept. Yes crossfire worked (mostly, but I'm not certain if the issues I had were due to the Mac Pro or due to crossfire itself).ĭon't get me wrong. In fact, as I mentioned previously, since I was able to install the latest AMD "Adrenaline" drivers, I knew I had the latest and greatest software those GPUs could offer. I went from 1 GB of onboard VRAM to 2x8 GB. Truly a testament to the engineering that went into designing the 2009 Mac Pro.
Mac pro 5.1 dual processor tray upgrade#
At this point I was amazed with how I could reasonably upgrade hardware components such as a modern GPU (let alone two of them!) in such an aging system. Since I was able to already install macOS High Sierra, the upgrade was literally plug and play (with some caveats I'll detail in another article). I put both of my AMD RX 580 GPUs into the Mac Pro to hopefully get higher fidelity for gaming and hardware encoding. Was the 2009 Mac Pro capable of housing my pretty decent and modern GPUs? I decided to find out. The 2009 Mac Pro has two PCIe x 16 slots.
Mac pro 5.1 dual processor tray full#
The reason I suspect was due to the fact the the bus speed of the Thunderbolt 3 connection to the eGPU enclose is only 1/4 of a full PCIe x16 bus. Recently, I noticed that although the eGPUs allowed for my MacBook Pro to have access to a full-fledged GPU, the performance was nowhere near that of a GPU that is housed on a regular PCIe slot. Luckily for me, I have two eGPU enclosures both housing AMD RX 580 GPUs. Frankly, these are fine for my purpose but note that the standard SATA connections on the motherboard of the Mac Pro would make getting a larger SSD an easy upgrade. On the other hand, their service includes a modest warranty for that price.The system came with a 160 GB SSD drive and a SATA 640 GB HDD.
You may not want to pay their prices, but their site will give you an idea about what is possible AND trouble-free as an upgrade path. They don't need a one-socket 2009 processor shelf, and there is not much of a market for 2009 single-socket shelf except to people whose one-socket shelf failed, so they do not offer the one socket to two socket upgrade for the 2009 model. OWC still offers certain processor shelf swaps and numerous chip upgrades as a service.
There are two different processor shelves, one with one heatsink and one processor socket and four DIMM slots, one with two heatsinks and two processor sockets and eight DIMM slots.īuyer beware - NOT interchangeable with the 2009 models 4,1 trays, even if the firmware has been upgraded so that it "looks like" a 5,1 model.Īs rudo.ba says, 2010 to 2010 are interchangeable, (It is likely the two different processor shelves from a 2009 4,1 would interchange with each other, just not across models.) For the genuine 2010-2012 model MacBook Pro 5,1 ONLY:
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