That kind of sucks a bit or a lot depending if you’ve invested in such a video card. So drivers and updates seems to be omitted or unavailable from macOS’s Mojave. I had wished to go for the Nvidia card however Apple and Nvidia boys aren’t really on speaking terms at the moment. I even show screenshots of using Resolve with the 10 year old Mac quite a feat!Īdditionally from the last time I wrote about the Mac Pro upgrade I had also replaced the GPU – the graphic card. I made this video of “how film to a live band” where I used DaVinci Resolve 15 to edit the video on my upgrade MacPro 5,1. To migrate from SSD to M2 SSD insert your old Apple video card reboot into recovery mode and use the Disk Utility to clone the existing SSD over to the M2 drive.

The 3rd slot I recommend for the USB 3.0 card. Top Tip: Install the M2 SSD PCIe card in the 4th slot for best performance! Keep the 2nd slot free otherwise you slow your video card down to 8x from 16x. You can of course use the Samsung SM951 too however the AData is at a better price point. The M2 SSD 512Gb I had used for the upgrade was the AData XPG SX8200 Pro 512G.

All this for just about 100 notes in Euros.

This connection gives the blazing speed benefit up to 3000 Mb/s on the newer PCIe 3.0 bus however on this occasion PCIe 2.0, the older motherboard will only get me to 1500+ Mb/s.īut in comparison to my standard SATA SSD which could only get to a read speed of about 240 Mb/s, this seems to be an incredible upgrade. The M2.SSD storage chip and adapter slots right into the brains of the CPU bus via the PCIe. The card actually in this case was to be a wee PCIe sled with M2.SSD module from AData. Now to achieve harmony in terms of performance and usability an essential inexpensive upgrade seems necessary to be on the cards. Read my adventure to replace my MacPro with a Hackintosh for Photography and Videography M2 SSD on MacPro 5,1

The question is can it blend and run Catalina macOS ? Firstly some much needed hardware upgrades. The astronomical cost in the region of two arms, two legs and each of my kidneys has very much inspired me to continue on at least another year and probably another two with my current cheese grater 1.0. Previously I had documented how I went about upgrading the CPU and RAM of the classic cheese grater style Mac Pro from 2009.So last week they finally got their proverbial finger out to release the new Mac Pro 2019, cheese grater 2.0.The cost of the new beast reflects very much how Apple has in recent years lost its grip on reality. I wish to make an update to this post concerning my aging Mac Pro 2009.

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