Upgrade Mac Pro early 2009 - new graphics card

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• Ask for help upgrade (Mac Pro early 2009 2x2.6 GHz Quad-Core)

  I am a videographer who has need to bring my Mac Pro from the dead. Cheesy with video files, but not parts of. My reading so far led me to look at in what follows. I'm looking for a better understanding of each of the following items and upgrades are beneficial and worth that may be too kill for a round of aging.

  1. Memory. I currently have 4x2gb or total of 8 GB of ram. I know this is ridiculous, I have not increased by at least 16 GB so far. However, I have read that memory can only help so much and that some of the items here are actual speed thrusters. How much memory is recommended for this configuration? Should I buy? http://www.Amazon.com/16GB-DDR3-1066-PC3-8500-1066Mhz-Apple/DP/B0098MLFJG/
  2. Solid State Drives. I currently have 3 disks internal thatrange of 500 GB to 2 TB. If I used that as my boot drive, where is the best place to install (see photo below)? I read of people installing in a Bay SATA HDD or SATA optical drive unused. I read good things about it. http://www.Amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-I...p/B00OBRE5UE/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?IE=U TF8
  3. Video/graphics card. First of all, both mean the same thing? Are the belowonly of slots PCI Express 4 for this type of card? Also, can you have two installed? I have the NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 512 MB series. What is the best way to upgrade? My research so far has led me to the GeForce GTX680. Looks like I'll have to buy it was good. T7ZS http://www.Amazon.com/EVGA-GeForce-DisplayPort-Graphics-02G-P4-3682-KR/DP/B00C81
  4. Processor upgrade. I'm intimidated by it due to intensive installation and prices. What would be the next best bet - upgrade to 12-core? Where to buy?
  5. Firmware? I've seen videos and forums on (4.1 - I) (5.1) or (6.1). I don't really understand what that means. Should I be concerned?

  

  Thank you!

  -The fastest drive is a blade of base PCle SSD. Very very fast

  The SSD to 'Classic' Mac Pro training

  -The bus SATA on the Mac Pro is only SATA II (3 GB/s) and connected to the bus SAT SSD is therefore limited to speed SATA II, not the speed of current SATA III (6 Gbps) drives.

  -You can get cards PCle who accept the standard SATA SSD and who can get speeds of SATA III

  -You can install several graphics cards. I have my 2009 MP, I have the original GT120 in slot 2 and a 5770 PC card into slot 1 (slot width double only).

  A graphics for PC cards will not display anything while booting, as well as an installed PC card can be used for the Startup Option or special start-up as recovery mode.

  For more information on graphics cards:

  Tip: Mac cards replacement Graphics Pro money Tour (2006-2012)

  http://www.macvidcards.com/index.html

  http://forums.MacRumors.com/showthread.php?t=1440150

  -J' would upgrade not processors. Frequently reading and writing to disk is the bottleneck.

  About the firmware, you can update the firmware of the 2009 to 2010 MP. Which allows the use of faster memory, using a processor six cores and audio mini displayport for the graphics card offline

• Mac Pro early 2009-7950 HIS Itceq Turbo / 3GB

  Hello

  I bought a GPU 7950 HIS Itceq Turbo / 3GB GDDR5. I tried with the Mac Pro early 2009 (10.9.5) and a 4K monitor, but it does not work perfectly.

  The DVI output is good, but the max resolution only 1080 p. If I use with cable MiniDisplay, and view the right side monitor scratches and horizontal 5 seconds noise appears on 60 Hz. The monitor works fine on 30 Hz. I tried SwitchResx app for the best refresh rate, best rate exceeded the 55 Hz, but the horizonte noise not.

  The other problem, the boot music played twice each time, so pluged the DVI. If the MiniDisplay cable was plugged music start playing around and he played with white screen. The only way to start if you connect the cable

  The seller never try it with a 4K monitor, so I do not know is the card works well.

  The 4 K is Acer BX320HK. It works very well with the MacBook Pro late 2013 (10.10.5) with Nvidia GeForce GT 750 M 2048 MB same MiniDisplay-Display cable.

  Is there someone who uses this card with MacPro and 4 k monitor?

  Thank you!

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  You use a dual-link cable?

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  What version of OSSX on the MacBook Pro? If more Mavericks try upgrade to the same version of OSX, you can do a test on another HDD for testing with installation.

• I want to exchange a larger HDD (Mac Pro early 2009) and at the same time improve Cougar to El Capitan.

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• GTX 960 on a Mac Pro early 2009

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  I use a 2009 start Mac Pro 2 x 2, 26GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon

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  I want to do an upgrade on the graphics card, but I don't know if the food for my mac will support it. I'm looking for the GeForce GTX 960. This need for the card cable to the two? What cable exactly? and it is safe?
  And another thing, where you can get the drivers for this card because in the nvidia site did not for OS X

  If anyone can help with this, I'll be very grateful.

  I heard that Qudro drivers may work...

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• You can add 3 USB to a Mac Pro (early 2009)

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• Installation of the 4x8Go memory modules on Mac Pro early 2009

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  I installed 4 modules, system preference, however installed 3 modules and 1 location of vacuum with the Red of error ON the CPU board memory.

  

  If you rearrange the same empty watch housing RDIMMs?

  If you use only two RDIMMs can you do this job to see the slow?

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• My Mac Pro early 2009 has two non-functional engravers.

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  -Is one or more optical drives?

  -They are readers Apple?

  -What happens when you insert a CD or a DVD?

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  https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT204904

  -If you do not have a backup using disk utility to restore the internal drive to an external drive, so that you can try to recover the data.

  Format the boot disk and then do a fresh install of Mac OS x

• Mac Pro (early 2009) screen resolution

  So I have a

  Model name: Mac Pro

  Model identifier: MacPro5, 1

  Processor name: 6-Core Intel Xeon

  Processor speed: 2.93 GHz

  Number of processors: 2

  Total number of hearts: 12

  Memory: 64 GB

  Chipset model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 120

  Type: GPU

  Bus: PCIe

  Slot: Slot-1

  The PCIe track width: x 16

  VRAM (Total): 512 MB

  Provider: NVIDIA (0x10de)

  Device ID: 0 x 0640

  Revision ID: 0x00a1

  ROM revision: 3386

  Exhibition:

  BenQ GW2765:

  
  

  With the card NVIDIA GT 120... I thought that card might support a screen of 2K... but it seems TERRIBLE. I downloaded the driver for Mac El Capitan from nvidia, but it's not helping. What can I do to get the 2K resolution on my screen of 2K? I thought that this card supported.

  THX,

  Rick

  The ability to display resolution is also affected by the type and quality of connection mac and monitor cable (interfaces).

  For example, single-link DVI connection supports only up to 1920 x 1200.

  What cable do you use?

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• HP pavilion p6226it: can I upgrade my pc with a new graphics card?

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  Same expert people told me that I could have problems because of my matherboard and bios (I've never updated), is this true?

  @antonmartino,

  Hi again.  Just below the section for memory you'll find.  What you can do is take existing specifications and the specifications of the motherboard and see what card maximum that you can put in the slot.  The only thing you want to look at is what is the power required by the new map you found and if the power supply has enough power to stay with her horse.  If you talk to any place of the computer with the specifications of this page, that I gave you, they can give you the best option.  What I do is take the listed specifications of the card and match the cards, in that you are looking to put.  Check to see if it's the same dwelling and look to see if they require the same requirement for voltage and they should work perfectly.

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• MacPro will not connect to I-phone 6 via AirDrop WINE, Mac Pro (early 2009), OS 10.10.5. Phone is IOS 9.2.1

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• Install windows on mac pro (early 2008) in other SSDS with RAID card

  Guys, good evening to all the same time.

  I get out of this crazy short, I ask humbly help.

  I explain my problem:

  I have a Mac Pro (early 2008), with RAID CARD MEDIA

  He does not then I "gave" to my mother who must use windows for work.

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• Mac Pro early 2008 OS 10.6.8 at 10.11 on a new SSD upgrade

  Hi all!

  I want to spend my Mac Pro hard drive to an SSD with a new installation of El Capitan, but I also want to continue to use Adobe CS3 (I can't afford a new version... > _ <).  I read that some people have a lot of problems after upgrading their operating system, even when you use the legacy of Java 6 to CS3.

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  HARD drive 500GBx2 (one is currently my Time Machine, I'll use it as a backup of my photos)

  500GB SSD (no not in my Mac still installed)

  4 TB HARD drive (will have Time Machine on half)

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  I'm really sorry for all the questions!  Thank you very much for any help!  ^____^

  ~ Christina ~.

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  -I just download the installer of El Capitan from the Mac App Store and run it and order that EL Capitan to be installed on the new SSD. You can then by pressing the Option key at startup to choose which version of the OS you want to boot from. You can set either as the default startup in system preferences > startup disk.

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  -With 16 GB of RAM and an SSD El Capitan will be fine