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Re: Anyone running 2021 on old cheesegraters?
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macOS Big Sur 11.6 on 2010 MacPro 5,1!
I have been running Catalina on my 5,1 for some time with OpenCore. Today I updated to Big Sur 11.6. Things are running great. I've got a full PCIe card complement with an M.2 NVMe boot drive, HDX card and UAD Octo card.
Smooth as silk.
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offthewallproductions Mac Pro 5,1 3.46 Ghz 12 core, Open Core 0.9.8, Radeon RX580 GPU, GC-TITAN RIDGE TB3 PCIe card, M.2 NVMe SSD boot drive on PCIe card, 48GB RAM, macOS 12.7.4 Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.3/HD Driver 2023.3 HDX, UA Octo PCIe card in external TB3 chassis, MTRX Studio I/O, C|24 control surface. Genelec 1031AP/7070A 5.1 monitoring. |
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Re: Anyone running 2021 on old cheesegraters?
What is a good "Metal" compatible video card that most of you are using. With the crazy market for GPU's for gaming and crypto mining, I've been holding off doing this useful upgrade to my 4.1 cheese grater dual processor/8 core Nehalem MacPro (flashed to 5.1 but no RAM speed or processor upgrade). Is it necessary to do some power connector acrobatics for the new video card? Also, how do I get one that is flashed for Mac so that I get the boot screen? Is that something I can do easily or does it need to come already flashed from the factory. The machine is just sitting in the corner unused. All this talk about OpenCore seems like I can get some life out of this workhorse.
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offthewallproductions Mac Pro 5,1 3.46 Ghz 12 core, Open Core 0.9.8, Radeon RX580 GPU, GC-TITAN RIDGE TB3 PCIe card, M.2 NVMe SSD boot drive on PCIe card, 48GB RAM, macOS 12.7.4 Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.3/HD Driver 2023.3 HDX, UA Octo PCIe card in external TB3 chassis, MTRX Studio I/O, C|24 control surface. Genelec 1031AP/7070A 5.1 monitoring. |
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Re: Anyone running 2021 on old cheesegraters?
Good suggestions above. I went through a whole rigamarole getting my system going. I first ordered an AMD Radeon 7970 that was flashed for Mac, but when it arrived I realized it needed two PCIe power ports, and I was using one for my HDX card. I never did quite figure out how to do the optical bay alternative power source mentioned above. I just re-sold that card. Then I bought an MSI Radeon 560, not flashed for Mac. I got everything up and running on that card. Made me nervous seeing a lot of blank screens while I was configuring drives and upgrading OS X at various points. But it has been working great. As a safety I bought an Nvidia GeForce GT 640 that is flashed for Mac, but I haven't needed to use it. I thought about Open Core, but the install process seems fairly daunting. I'm nervous about doing anything because at least for the moment my system is quite stable. I'm pretty darn impressed with how much horsepower I'm getting out of my 2009 Mac Pro 8-core, with the Hybrid Engine and UAD Octo. Love not having a voice limit anymore! I can run much bigger mixes than on HD2 Accel without even touching the HDX card...
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Re: Anyone running 2021 on old cheesegraters?
For others that have done OpenCore, is the install daunting? Are there many options to choose or is it pretty much accept all the defaults? What is the latest MacOS that it can run?
As for the video cards being flashed for Mac, is that something you do yourself or is that something done by the video card manufacturer? In other words, do I need to buy a flashed card or do I buy an off-the-shelf card and run some utility to flash it for Mac?
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MacbookPro14,3 - Intel Core i7 3.1 GHz, 16 GB MacOS 13.6.4 running Protools 2024.3 Mac Studio M1Max - 64GB MacOS 14.3.1 running Protools 2024.3 |
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Re: Anyone running 2021 on old cheesegraters?
From the research I did about flashing your own GPU for Mac, I don't believe it's as simple as running a utility to do it. Seemed like a fairly involved process, and unless I'm mistaken, you need to do the flash upgrade from a Windows PC first. That might be why the pre-flashed cards are so expensive...
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Flashing GPUs is not a simple process and it must be done from a PC. Also completely unnecessary if you are going the open core route.
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offthewallproductions Mac Pro 5,1 3.46 Ghz 12 core, Open Core 0.9.8, Radeon RX580 GPU, GC-TITAN RIDGE TB3 PCIe card, M.2 NVMe SSD boot drive on PCIe card, 48GB RAM, macOS 12.7.4 Pro Tools Ultimate 2024.3/HD Driver 2023.3 HDX, UA Octo PCIe card in external TB3 chassis, MTRX Studio I/O, C|24 control surface. Genelec 1031AP/7070A 5.1 monitoring. |
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Re: Anyone running 2021 on old cheesegraters?
Thanks for the links to the resources concerning OpenCore. I'll study those before proceeding. I still need to get a video card first.
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