[Lord Xeb]

Quote:

Originally Posted by wrigleyvillain

Yeah ECC is for critical data…like bank systems and various servers. And be glad that wasn't one of the slightly earlier FB-DIMM Mac Pros! Ugh.

Yeah, I hate those things. Stupid expensive ram!
Quote:

Originally Posted by GermanyChris

The need to be matched stepping not necessarily a matched pair, some of the later higher clocked processors had only one stepping.

Okay, that makes sense then. It has been so long I have forgotten about that!

 

[cdnGhost]

Thanks guys some great info in here!!

SOOO my list of mods to do to this mac pro...

Update firmware to 5,1
buy 2x X56xx processors
buy minimum 24gb 1333mhz RAM
Sleeve all visible cables
Paint or Powder coat the case
upgrade video card
Have a fun time working on it !

:thumb:

Will post some sort of work log and or stuff here once the funds have been raised...

Thanks again to all for the great info! hopefully it will help others out!

 

[GermanyChris]

Update to the 5,1 firmware BEFORE you do the processors also the 4,1 processors are lidless so you need to have them de-lidded or get spacers and thermal pads and be very careful if you go the spacer route because you can bend the pins and the processor board is ~$700 used.

 

[cdnGhost]

Yeah this will be my second processor upgrade

here are a few photos of my last one....








Thanks again for the info though... would have forgot to do the 5,1 flash first lol:thumb:

 

[KyleMart06]

Another thought here (Maybe Xeb and Xylene can speak to this too). If you go NonECC memory route, will the OP run into issues with the AppleTyMCEDrive.kext? In my H***intosh, I used the MacPro definition and had to delete kext to make it work. Not sure if this would be an issue for a real Mac Pro or not but thought I would throw it out there.

 

[Lord Xeb]

That will have to be removed.

 

[KyleMart06]

Ok, that is what I thought. Just wanted to make sure for the sake of the user.

 

[GermanyChris]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Xeb

That will have to be removed.

That's the first I've heard of that in a real Mac Pro but most of the guys running non-ECC are also running i7's and not Xeons.

 

[Lord Xeb]

Quote:

Originally Posted by GermanyChris

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Xeb

That will have to be removed.

That's the first I've heard of that in a real Mac Pro but most of the guys running non-ECC are also running i7's and not Xeons.

I would try and see if it has any issues. If it doesn't. great.

 

[cdnGhost]

Once I am able to sell a few items I will be getting the memory and processors but may be a few months... mother in law just passed away suddenly not long ago and we are still paying off the funeral & flights home...

 

[Lord Xeb]

Sorry to hear that.

 

[Xylene]

Uh, I didn't have to delete any kexts on a 2009 Mac Pro that I threw non-ECC RAM in.

 

[Lord Xeb]

Then I think we should be fine.

 

[GermanyChris]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xylene

Uh, I didn't have to delete any kexts on a 2009 Mac Pro that I threw non-ECC RAM in.

I didn't think so but you do have to on hackintosh.

 

[cdnGhost]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lord Xeb

Sorry to hear that.

Thanks

 

[KyleMart06]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xylene

Uh, I didn't have to delete any kexts on a 2009 Mac Pro that I threw non-ECC RAM in.

Quote:

Originally Posted by GermanyChris

I didn't think so but you do have to on hackintosh.

I was thinking that it might have been that way Xylene and GermanyChris but was not sure. I know for the future now!

 

[cdnGhost]

Ok so now another question... What is the best Graphics card i can get into this thing with out the need for an external PSU....
been looking at a Radeon HD 7950 as they are inexpensive but would it be a big enough upgrade for me? i am using a GTX 650 ti.... and a GT120.....
or should i try and get a 780, Titan or 960 - 980...

I only run one monitor, use some photoshop for home photo editing... and play Guild Wars II thats about it...

thanks again!

 

[Lord Xeb]

Titan may not work, 960 may not work either. 780 confirmed to work fine. 970 and 980 needs Nvidia web drivers. 650 Ti I believe confirmed works. Although I do believe some cards require a mod to their bios.

 

[GermanyChris]

The 960 works with web drivers. Most modern NV cards work depending on the os used the same applies to AMD but without efi you get no boot screen.

 

[cdnGhost]

Ha finally found out why i had a few kernel panics lately....... and super slow boots....

Did not even know this was possible.....