Best Cpu Upgrade For Mac Pro 5,1

It appears Apple is not supporting an upgrade to Sierra on my Early 2009 Mac Pro 2x2.93. It must be they feel it is not fast enough even though it benchmarks at 12612. BTW a Apple iMac 'Core i5' 2.8 21.5-Inch (Late 2015) benches at 11342 More planned obsolescence by Apple. MacOS Sierra hardware compatibility list (no longer supported): • Late 2009 and later • MacBook • iMac • 2010 and later • MacBook Air • MacBook Pro • Mac mini • Mac Pro Anyway: I have read that all I need to do is update the firmware from 4,1 to 5,1 and I will be fine. Downloaded the update but I get Error 5570 when tying to run it. A web search says I need to run Apples EFI Mac Pro firmware 1,5.

Step by Step: Mac Pro Processor Upgrade. By Jim Tanous. Sep 29th, 2011 2:50 PM EDT. My primary workstation is a 2009 8-core Mac Pro. When I purchased the machine about two and a half years ago, I. 12 core apple mac pro cpu tray upgrade 8-core 2.66ghz 2009 2010 4,1 5,1 westmere - $265.00. Ask about 120 day and 1 year warranty.ask about our same day local courier delivery if you are local to los angeles. If you have any customer service questions please ask and we can assist you.

But it will only install on the 2010. I know we are going to have a lot of questions on Sierra when it hits next week and I would really like to be able to learn the system. I hope you might be able to help.

UPDATE 9/15/16 I got by the 5570 error code by opening the MacProEFIUpdate dmg but not running it. Then running the MacPro 2009-2010 Firmware tool ( ran OK without getting the error). Said to shut down and restart holding down the power button until it started flashing.

The folder will be called 'New Folder'. On the Go menu, click Documents. Open Microsoft User Data, and then open Office 2011 AutoRecovery. On the Edit menu, click Select All. Drag all files into 'New Folder' on the desktop. The AutoRecovery folder should be empty. Open Excel for Mac 2011 and try to save a file. My keyboard stopped working mac. Question: Q: Mac shortcuts not working in Mac Excel - MS Office. I have the new 2013 MacBook Pro. I have purchased Microsoft Office for Mac, which is what I'm using when I say 'Mac Excel' I am a power excel user in PC Excel but am having a hard time in Mac's excel, as many of the Mac excel shortcuts don't work. Try opening a new workbook by clicking Excel icon in Finder>Applications folder (do not click Excel shortcut icon pinned to Dock), create a new workbook, check if you still get the same issue. If the issue persists, please try the suggestion from the following article: 'Microsoft Excel has encountered a problem and needs to close. Office for Mac community for Mac users. Provide feedback in Office app You can send feedback directly to our Office teams. For Mac users, in Office 2016 for Mac, click the smiley icon in the upper-right corner.

I did this a couple of times. It looked like it was going to work but I did not get a firmware progress bar, it just booted normally. And I still have Boot ROM Version: MP41.0081.B07. The problem is the same as stated here: Mine is at the B07, so the EFI updater should work but still will not. FURTHER UPDATE Tried it three times and failed. Booted from a clean system on an external drive and success.

Now have Boot ROM Version: MP51.007F.B03 I do not get the error message when trying to download the macOS Sierra Master Beta, it's just doesn't download. UPDATE 9/20/16 Installed Sierra on external drive and booted from it on the MacPro. All appears to be running well, just one incompatible software and that was Symantec Endpoint Protection. Will play with it this way for a few days to see if there are any other issues but it's really starting to look like Apple just wanted to make the machine obsolete prematurely. UPDATE 9/29/16 After testing for a few days using an external with Sierra and finding no problems, I went ahead and installed without issue on my MacPro. Mac dock for windows.