Now, here’s the installation order for all of the antennas in the airport extreme card. The antenna is actually plugged in to the PCI card that’s holding the airport extreme in it. Make sure that you follow my order or you’ll have a finicky experience with your WIFI and Bluetooth signal.



The issue with this card is also the length of the PCI card. It’s actually longer than the frame of the Mac Pro casing. To install it, first I have to let the rear portion of the card under the frame first. Make sure that none of the antenna went lose and then plug the whole PCI card in to the socket. Quite tricky, but I got it done anyway.



This is how it looks like when it’s done. Excuse me again for the lousy job of not hiding the extension cable properly.



First check, Wifi shows up!



My 5GHZ networks detected. Connected fine.



Hands-off supported!



I got all of the installation done within 15 minutes. However, the fiddling to find the correct antenna order took me close to 45 minutes.

The whole upgrade kit cost me RM 350 inclusive of shipping to Malaysia. It cost only 50% of the total cost of identical kit from osxwifi.com. Eventhough it’s not the exact kit but I really have to give those HuaQiangBei Wizards in GuangZhou props for making the clone version works.

If anyone here wanted to make an order, just drop me a comment here and I can make the arrangement to courier the kit to you guys. The base cost of the item is USD 75 not inclusive of shipping cost. For those who knows me personally, just drop me a message. Cheers.

Yeah. Wireless AC is working.

I ordered it in China bro.

Correction.

Slot 1 and 4 : x16 PCIE
Slot 2 and 3 : x4 PCIE

Not sure which manual your refer to.

I've tested it with my SSD earlier. Slot 2 and 3 definitely not achieving X16. Only slot 4 can use for the SSD in my case. I use the slot 1 for the GPU. I also put the USB3 card to slot 2. Slot 3 taken by GPU as it's too close to the slot. If I use a riser I might can make use of it. But currently I don't have anything I want to use it for.

Not sure why bro.

I saw this in other forum that the correct order isn't like the manual.
Possibly typo error I guess.

Are you using NVME?

If it's NVME then it could possibly running at half of the speed.

I've benchmarked before. Slot 2 and 3 definitely not giving me the correct result.
Only 4 can yield the targeted speed.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/rtx-se...upport.2148023/

RTX Series Cards have Native Bootscreen Support!

Hahaha... I didn't pre-order bro.
Might try if I can sell off my old hardware.

Time to order for more!


Glad that the packaging looks good. I was worrying that they didn't pack well. Anyone want a 4,1 or 5,1 with Dual CPU? Or even some the ultra rare Powermac G5 Quad core can contact me.

Mac Pro 4,1 Upgrade Adventure Stage 4 – Follow up for WIFI AC + Bluetooth 4.0


Follow up to the Mac Pro 4,1 Upgrade Adventure Stage 3. I’ve tried to order a few more units for some friends in Facebook MacProUpgrade Group, Facebook Mac Pro Malaysia Owners Group and Lowyat Forum Mac Pro Thread.

I’ve tried to make some adjustments to the module by requesting the factory to provide me a version that I can stick the bluetooth module on the aluminium casing. However, that didn’t turn out right as the bluetooth signal is the weakest. So I’ve ordered the factory to send me some replacement bluetooth module to rectify the issues with the last orders.

The factory sent me the new set of bluetooth module which is different from my previous post. So I’ve made a youtube video to show case the steps to install the new bluetooth module. Here’s the images for those who prefers to read.

Sorry for late reply.

Well... I would have said it's worth it for it's price. You get something literally the same as Ryzen 5 in terms of performance.

If you don't bother the trouble, just get a Ryzen 5 and hackintosh it. However, Hackintosh can never be as stable as the real deal.

I don't have any extra 16GB rams at the moment. Sorry.

I found Mac Pros from Carousell and Facebook Marketplace bro.

I have not tried on Mac Pro but tried it on Macbook 2010. I can boot normally but just once in a while need to repatch the Dosdude1 patch. Not quite sure of the problem you have. Just wondering whether you've applied all of the firmware patch before you try Dosdude1?

There were patch needed to make 4,1 to 5,1 then another patch for Mojave firmware upgrade to support NVME SSD. Not quite sure whether that's the reason.