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Just got an old Mac pro 1.1, need to ask some questions.
Elie
Elie
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Either no one uses a Mac Pro or they have Mac but afraid to admit it
I bought a used Mac Pro 1,1 with the following components...
-Two dual core 3.0's XEON clovertown's
-4GB ram
-ATI X1900 video card
-23inch Cinema display
-Snow Leopard 10.6
This system is really fast, I am impressed that it's old but runs circles around my dual AMD Opteron 2.6Ghz system (mind you that's very old by todays standards)
Pretty much everything on the Mac is upgradeable, I can add more ram, I can install two quad core XEON x5355's without issues.
The only problem (and I'm saying this nicely) is the video card. The Mac Pro 1,1 has a 32bit EFI (which apparently is like a BIOS but it's not) most new video cards for Mac only support a 64bit EFI and are not backwards compatible.
I desperately need a CUDA based video card like the Nvidia GTX 285, but I heard it won't work.
Or am I completely out of luck?
Thanks,
Elie
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