Upgrading apple mac pro desktop 4.1 upgrade#

Upgrading apple mac pro desktop 4.1 upgrade#

Will the 30$ on ebay basic card which slides in with 2 screws do the trick? It says it is compatible with all cMPs, however, I see a lot of people linking to upgrade kits selling a 150$ upgrade with adapters and all I kinds of other gadgets which I'm not fully understanding are necessary.

I don't need the latest wifi card to enable the newer features, especially since I plan to stick to my use case & 10.13.

This box came with built in bluetooth, but no wifi.

I'm hearing mixed success with these, but is there a consusus, or should I roll with the safer, single X5675 I also know there is the X5680 at a similar price, faster CPU - which isn't in any apple products out of factory.

The single slot 5,1 best config out of the box was the W3680, however, it only has marginal performance gains, at a much higher price, compared to the X5675.

Has anyone with a 4,1 Single slot upgraded their CPU and can confirm this?

I keep seeing there is a need to delid, but I've also heard it's entirely unnecessary on the 4,1 SINGLE slot as the OEM processor is lidded.

I've updated it to 5,1 firmware and installed high sierra and am now looking for some pointers / confirm my understanding as I've seen conflicting bits of info: I'd like to upgrade it as well as possible without spending too much more. Found a early 2009 4,1 with a single CPU slot with original 4 core XEON, Original GPU, 16GB 1066RAM and a EVGA GTX 970.