RWC2019 Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 Hello, I have a chance to buy a 2009 MAC PRO for $ 250 that looks brand new cosmetically . Will it run High Sierra 10.13 and / or Mojave 10.14 with acceptable results ..... as it is ? If not , what upgrades will I need to make ? I plan on at least 16 GB of new Crucial memory and a new SAMSUNG 1 TB SSD for a clean install of OS X . Here are the specs : One 2.93GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon W3540 "Nehalem" processor 4.0GB (4x1.0GB) PC3-8500 (1066MHz) DDR3 ECC SDRAM, supports up to 16.0GB 640GB Serial ATA hard disk drive @ 7200RPM ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics with 512MB GDDR5 memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPCnostalgic Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 TBH it seems that Mac Pro model won't be a deal. You'll have to spend a lot of money to buy new Ram, video card, SSD...... and eventually you'll have an old and slow bottlenecked machine. Probably with the same money (Mac + upgrades) you can build a better hack, but that's only my opinion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWC2019 Posted July 7, 2019 Author Share Posted July 7, 2019 Thanks very much for the input . I have decided against the 2009 model , and will go with a 2010 -2012 MAC PRO 5,1 . From what I've read so far , I will need the NVIDIA GTX 680 video card to install MOJAVE without any issues ..... but the original ATI RADEON HD 5870 will run perfectly with High Sierra . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konami® Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 (edited) I have the 2009 MacPro with updated Xeon processor to 6 quad single 3.6GHZ, Radeon RX570 8GB and 32GB memory. The only issue that I have is that I can't reboot computer... it will hang. I have the latest OS X 10.14.6 installed. Does anyone know what I would need to install or update? Edited August 27, 2019 by Konami® Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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