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Hello,
So, I recently bought a used mac pro. Originally, a Mac Pro 4,1 2009 with 4 cores. It's most recent owner upgraded it to a Mac Pro 5,1 with 6 cores.
I bought it with intentions to upgrade - and, so it begins. Can you help me upgrade?
I moved the original hard drive back to a separate drive and installed an SSD. Unto which, I installed OS Sierra.
I am upgrading ram from three 4gb sticks to four 8gb sticks.
I'm a bit confused about upgrading the usb to 3.0 .. I watched a few youtubes from 2012 but i'm not quite getting it. I even took my machine to a local Mac reseller/fix it upper - and the guy had my machine for 2 weeks and told me it can't be done. Which is a bit disheartening.
What else can/should be upgraded? Video cards? GPU? Fans? DVD drive?
Anyways - have yourselves a splendid day and if you can help me great! If not, thanks for reading!
*BTW - I tried to upgrade my membership here and I was unable.
Thanks again!
Artie
So, I recently bought a used mac pro. Originally, a Mac Pro 4,1 2009 with 4 cores. It's most recent owner upgraded it to a Mac Pro 5,1 with 6 cores.
I bought it with intentions to upgrade - and, so it begins. Can you help me upgrade?
I moved the original hard drive back to a separate drive and installed an SSD. Unto which, I installed OS Sierra.
I am upgrading ram from three 4gb sticks to four 8gb sticks.
I'm a bit confused about upgrading the usb to 3.0 .. I watched a few youtubes from 2012 but i'm not quite getting it. I even took my machine to a local Mac reseller/fix it upper - and the guy had my machine for 2 weeks and told me it can't be done. Which is a bit disheartening.
What else can/should be upgraded? Video cards? GPU? Fans? DVD drive?
Anyways - have yourselves a splendid day and if you can help me great! If not, thanks for reading!
*BTW - I tried to upgrade my membership here and I was unable.
Thanks again!
Artie