Upgrading my IMAC

[SiriusPR]

Hello Guys

 

I have a Mac Pro late 2009 mode and i am thinking on upgrading. Now i know that EVERYONE is going to be saying don't do it throw it out Mac is a P.O.S and blah blah blah. The reason that i made this tread is not for that instead i want to do see how can i upgrade the machine without having to but a new one. This machine has a Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.26 GHz processor with 32GB of RAM 1066 MHz DDR3 memory a 2TB HDD (not that it matters) and a Nvidia Geforce GT 120 512MB. What i was thinking on doing is just doing a simple graphics card change but i know that OSX doesnt have drivers for all the video cards and whatnot but there is a way to flash certain videos card to make them work on mac and whatnot. I dont want to use OSX to be honest, i have a Imac late 2013 model that i can do pretty much everything that i need to do on OSX in there. Now what i was thinking on doing is just getting a video card and just using it on windows via bootcamp but then i tough wouldnt i have to flash the card still? 

 

To summaries my question. Can i upgrade my video card and just use the windows partition on my mac pro?

 

Thanks in advance for the help!

[asim1999]

Hello Guys

 

I have a Mac Pro late 2009 mode and i am thinking on upgrading. Now i know that EVERYONE is going to be saying don't do it throw it out Mac is a P.O.S and blah blah blah. The reason that i made this tread is not for that instead i want to do see how can i upgrade the machine without having to but a new one. This machine has a Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2.26 GHz processor with 32GB of RAM 1066 MHz DDR3 memory a 2TB HDD (not that it matters) and a Nvidia Geforce GT 120 512MB. What i was thinking on doing is just doing a simple graphics card change but i know that OSX doesnt have drivers for all the video cards and whatnot but there is a way to flash certain videos card to make them work on mac and whatnot. I dont want to use OSX to be honest, i have a Imac late 2013 model that i can do pretty much everything that i need to do on OSX in there. Now what i was thinking on doing is just getting a video card and just using it on windows via bootcamp but then i tough wouldnt i have to flash the card still? 

 

To summaries my question. Can i upgrade my video card and just use the windows partition on my mac pro?

 

Thanks in advance foThror the help!

Well buy the highest end xeon at the time (i can find them dirt cheap on eBay), and if ur board supports 2, get two of them and then get an SSD and new GPU 

[SiriusPR]

Yea I can do that but my question would it conflict if I get a non apple gpu?

[watts300]

Yea I can do that but my question would it conflict if I get a non apple gpu?

Not being manufactured by Apple wouldn't cause a problem. Simple incompatibility would, though. 

 

That being said, those video cards don't have conventional form factor. Have you been able to find third-party iMac video cards for your specific model?   Just out of curiosity, which one is it?  There were a few flavors of iMac in 2009. 

[asim1999]

Not being manufactured by Apple wouldn't cause a problem. Simple incompatibility would, though. 

 

That being said, those video cards don't have conventional form factor. Have you been able to find third-party iMac video cards for your specific model?   Just out of curiosity, which one is it?  There were a few flavors of iMac in 2009. 

I think he confused the Mac Pro with the iMac, the Mac Pro has a PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slot so he should be fine 

[watts300]

I think he confused the Mac Pro with the iMac, the Mac Pro has a PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slot so he should be fine 

That would make sense. Evidently I spaced out and didn't read his post correctly.... since there's never been an iMac with Xeon processors.    In that case, @SiriusPR would just need to make sure there are OS X drivers for whatever he finds that is hardware compatible.