Clover cannot boot on my PC laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

I want to get one for cheap. Clean the gunk out
Get a few FireWire hard drive and daisy chain them for a mini server. What you think?

Shoyld be anything related to torrent. Except porn, maybe a little. Any documents that can be offloaded to the server I will do it.

I only have one working 160GB IDE HDD

BUT IDE IS BODO.

Barely two games. In 5 years time, 1TB will be too little

Wat tink u?

Graphics card must go.
SSD is a must.
RAM Upgrade is necassary for professional apps otherwise, leave it
Processor upgrade not necassary, replace the thermal paste.

Best bang for the buck Graphics Card for professional production is Titan Black if you can find one. It's around the same price as 980Ti but has 6GB VRAM. Your second option would be a used 980, they go for less than RM2000 nowadays and is the best bang for your buck.
NVIDIA Cards are usually very less problematic as they have Official NVIDIA Web Drivers
Strix 980
G1 980


You have the Mac Pro 3,1 (Early 2008) which is quite cheap to upgrade.
E5642s is just not powerful enough for HD Rendering.
Mac Pro 3,1 EFI firmware does not support any CPU that clocks higher than 3.2Ghz. Source: Mac Rumours
So, X5482 is your best bet here. Here's the comparison. Doesn't show much difference but not harm to do so.
Here's the link to the X5482s on eBay.
Total is $95 or RM408.19 including shipping. Not a bad upgrade.

RAM Upgrade? Your system probably come with 2 Sticks of 2GB RAM. So you have two slots left on each RAM board. Mac Pro only support ECC RAM
You thought RAM Upgrades in Mac Pro were expensive? Think again. DDR2 ECC RAMs ARE CHEAPPPPPP.
Here, have a look Hynix ECC RAM
30USD for 16GB. Shipping to Malaysia $8.95 Total 38.95USD or RM167.36

SSD?

ALL OUT

Samsung 256GB SM951 AHCI M.2 DA80mm PCIe Internal SSD - OEM MZHPV256HDGL-00000
USD 228.57 or RM982.10 including shipping and import taxes
NGFF to PCIE 3.0 X4 for USD12 or RM51.56

OR

Budget

Samsung 840 Pro 128GB -USD 44.99+USD6.02+USD23.88 = USD 74.89 =RM321.78
or
RAID 0 Samsung 840 Pro - USD89.98+USD6.02+USD23.88 = USD 119.88 = RM515.09

Samsung 840 Pro 128GB


Total upgrade cost= RM ????.??

Good luck!

This post has been edited by Anonymous34: Sep 15 2015, 09:51 PM

ECC RAM for server only but Mac Pro Early 2006-2008 only support ECC RAM so it is an advantage for cheap ram. Hehehhehehehheheehehehheheh

RAM and Graphics Card is basically essential.
If you don't mind 3GB VRAM, you can try HD 7970 Mac Edition.
You get an EFI screen which is very useful when reinstalling OS or troubleshooting your Mac.
RAM is cheap, get it.

5xx and 6xx series or known as the Kepler series is known to have native Apple drivers for them. The drivers are built by Apple for Kepler based Quadro but they are working fine. 7xx series and 9xx series acts the same way with NVIDIA Web Drivers. The reason of not having EFI screen is of course having PC BIOS, I think you can flash it to Mac BIOS but there's a limited choice of card and of course the risk.

For 9xx series, hold it back. Nvidia has only released El Capitan Drivers untl DP8/PB7. Hold it back. I have a GTX570 that has native Apple Drivers support that I can lend you, but mind you, I dropped it once, you may have luck with it.

32GB RAM, 8GB Sticks. For Low price? No. For 250USD per stick? Yes, OWC site has it.
You can of course, bump it to 24GB with 4GB per stick. That's going to cost you like 80 more ringgit which is a way more feasible solution

Processors? Dont hold it back for engineering programs, go for it. Bite the bullet, once and for all. When you decide to find a new owner for it, you can sell it for a MUCH HIGHER price as well as it is pretty much speced out machine with 24GB RAM.

Thats my advice for now. Also, new thermal paste and clean out the dust

EDIT: Oh yeah, boot camp issues. Dont worry too much about it. Although I would recommend you to install it from a PC first. To reduce hassle to deal with boot camp. Cant express more hate with boot camp on unsupported but CAPABLE machines like the Mac Pro or Macbook Pro Early 2008

This post has been edited by Anonymous34: Sep 16 2015, 11:58 PM

Pretty much any modern SSD is backwards compatible with Sata II.
Iinm, the older revisions of the G5 is using only Sata I. Does the newer revision or Dual/Quad G5 has Sata II?


Here's a topkek video of a topkek ssd in a topkek G5

This post has been edited by Anonymous34: Sep 17 2015, 06:49 PM

Pretty Straight forward.
First Gen and Second Gen Different.
First Gen the CPU socket is attached to motherboard. This makes the upgrade much tougher btw. RAM is installed differently on a sisterboardm
Second Gen you can remove the entire CPU Tray to upgrade the CPU and RAM
You have one PCIE x16 slot and 3 PCIx4 slot
First gen you need to use molex to PCIE 6 pin power connector for powerful graphics card
Second gen you have one proprietary connector on the motherboard that can provide second PCIE 6 pin power with a NON INCLUDED proprietary cable.

Mac Pro Second Gen Revision 1 (Mac Pro 4,1) requires modified EFI firmware to use powerful CPUs not supported by Apple (not available in BTO configs)
Second Gen Revision 2a and 2b has no such problem (Mac Pro 5,1)

Optical drive installation is pretty straightforward except you need to remove the tray cover before installing otherwise it can't eject through the small opening.
Mac Pro first generation uses Sata I, Mac Pro Second Generation uses Sata II for their optical drives.

This post has been edited by Anonymous34: Sep 18 2015, 10:20 PM

All the best dude. But when it comes to the Mac Pro, if you need my help, just hit me up using PM. Will be glad to help out. Want to see the internals in person anyways.

Processor.

Graphics Card, any NVIDIA card will work. Anything from a Titan X to a Quadro will work with Mac Pro. Power supply, I recommend replacing it every month as it will suck a bunch of juice more then the rated output wattage.

Proprietary connectors.

Probably, but require a lot of work

Because one Quadro card require 400W
Mac Pro power supply is rated for maximum output of 500W

Not powerful enough

Cheap ma

Topkek, 20000 ringgit

Piak2 hand, no need cheong