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Can you help me upgrade?
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<blockquote data-quote="artiekmartin" data-source="post: 1766380" data-attributes="member: 394884"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>I bought it with intentions to upgrade - and, so it begins. Can you help me upgrade?</p><p></p><p>I moved the original hard drive back to a separate drive and installed an SSD. Unto which, I installed OS Sierra.</p><p></p><p>I am upgrading ram from three 4gb sticks to four 8gb sticks.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>What else can/should be upgraded? Video cards? GPU? Fans? DVD drive?</p><p></p><p>Anyways - have yourselves a splendid day and if you can help me great! If not, thanks for reading!</p><p></p><p>*BTW - I tried to upgrade my membership here and I was unable.</p><p></p><p>Thanks again!</p><p>Artie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="artiekmartin, post: 1766380, member: 394884"] 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 [/QUOTE]
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