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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1766386" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>G'day and welcome to the forums.</p><p></p><p>In my Mac Pro days Artie the best PCI-e cards for anything at all were Sonnet, and there is a PCI-e card for USB3. Read it through before hitting buy to see the price! Depending how the recent owner completed the upgrade, you may have to upgrade the Graphics card to something later, such as an ATI Radeon5770 or 5870 for best results. Mac Rumours handle this upgrade more than this forum, so you might like to check out the second link. Hold off buying more memory, as you might find it necessary to go to faster modules. If Sierra is running, all is well with the upgrade to a 5.1.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sonnettech.com/product/allegrousb3pcie4port.html" target="_blank">http://www.sonnettech.com/product/allegrousb3pcie4port.html</a></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/another-mac-pro-4-1-to-5-1-efi-update-problem.1879564/" target="_blank">https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/another-mac-pro-4-1-to-5-1-efi-update-problem.1879564/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1766386, member: 42497"] G'day and welcome to the forums. In my Mac Pro days Artie the best PCI-e cards for anything at all were Sonnet, and there is a PCI-e card for USB3. Read it through before hitting buy to see the price! Depending how the recent owner completed the upgrade, you may have to upgrade the Graphics card to something later, such as an ATI Radeon5770 or 5870 for best results. Mac Rumours handle this upgrade more than this forum, so you might like to check out the second link. Hold off buying more memory, as you might find it necessary to go to faster modules. If Sierra is running, all is well with the upgrade to a 5.1. [url]http://www.sonnettech.com/product/allegrousb3pcie4port.html[/url] [url]https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/another-mac-pro-4-1-to-5-1-efi-update-problem.1879564/[/url] [/QUOTE]
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