Only that tests have shown that the 2008, while it does have two PCIe 2.0 16x lanes, does not do well with modern GPUs as later Mac Pro. Have i made an error in the ammount of slots available to install the above upgrades?Īnd finnaly is there any way i can install a thunderport so i can use newer mac hardware? Windows will be on the accelsior hard drive with my favorite game "skyrim" moded to take advantage of all the graphics bling.Īre there more options availabe that i am over looking? The video card will be changed to a Nvidia GTX 780 modified by mac vid cards to allow boot up screen, $800Ī OWC Mercury Accelsior E2 PCI Express SSD 240GB card will be installed, $430Ī CalDigit FASTA-6GU3 2 Port USB 3.0 & eSATA 6Gb/s Host Adapter will be installed for some 3.0 USB ports, $135Īnd finnaly mid next year i will buy a Dell 4K Ultra HD 27" screen for a reported >$1000 The ddr2 ram can't be upgraded and 16gb is probably enough so i'll leave that. Here are my thoughts after a little research, and in the order i intend to purchase: My hope is to get an ultimate gaming machine built for around $2k I want to modernise this machine, and update it to make it the best gaming machine i can for as little cost as possible. It's a 2008 3,1 with 3.0ghz processor, 16 g of ram and the radeon graphics card. (he spent $11k on a new one so lucky me get's a freeby) Hi all, i am about to recieve my dads old Mac Pro.
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