Mac Pro 5,1 heating

thanks for helping but I found another solution ( it's not the best but it work): I set the "intake" fan to the max rpm right at the start so temperatures remain between 78-85 C and when I do heavy work I set them all to max rpm so the temperature maintain itself at around 80 C. I know it?s not the best solution but now the temperatures are much lower than before and I do not particularly care about the noise so...... thanks for helping again! : )

yes I actually have a HDD in bay 1 and I'll try remove it and look up the temperatures whenever I could and I'll report back to you. There are other things I want to ask about the Mac Pro while we are Here: how much storage do you have in your Mac Pro? (I personally have 5 Tb for now [4 Tb HDD + 1 Tb SSD] but I've already bought a 8 Tb drive to put inside my machine [and have a raid 0 12 Tb big disk by "putting together" the 4 Tb and the 8 Tb] and in the future I'm probably gonna buy another 2 HDDs [8 Tb + 10 Tb] for time machine backup and I'll buy another 1 Tb SSD because of large application that need to be open fast. when I finish all of those upgrade I'm gonna have 32 Tb of internal storage.) What amount of storage do you have? (it's just a curiosity question because I haven't ever found anyone else with a Mac Pro)

Another question: have you manage to get airdrop, handoff and continuity to work between your iOS/ iPadOS device? how? have you bought an adapter for it?

Last question: is it plausible to put 256 Gb of ram inside the 5,1 Mac Pro? I'm asking this because I read on the intel official site that the "12" core processore in my machine can technically support 288 Gb of ram (each processor) so you can """"""support"""""" 288*2= 576 Gb of ram. Now, without going too far, is 256 Gb plausible on a 5,1 Mac Pro with macOS 10.14 Mojave?

sorry for bad English and exaggerated curiosity

already tried that; the best I can obtain is all fan at max (obviously) at around 74 C; the most effective one (the one that takes temperatures at 76 C) is the "INTAKE" one. I can't run all of them always at max because of noise. btw nice project your "handling several Security Cameras...."

i double checked all the fans again testing them 1 by 1 at max for 2 solid minutes each and this are my results:

PCI: 100 C

PS: 100 C

EXHAUST: 81 C

INTAKE: 76 C

BOOSTA: 82 C

BOOSTB: 89 C

all at max: 74 C

as expected "PCI" and "PS" fans are not effective at all, "EXHAUST" and "BOOSTA" are a little effective and "INTAKE" and all fan at max are the most effective (at least for me).

this is the configuration that I normally have but I run 1 only fan at max, I can try run all of them at max if you want. also what do you do on your Mac to keep it on for so many hours?

I checked the retaining pins and they aren't wiggly at all. what else can it be? the temperatures idle at 95 C doing absolutely nothing.

update: i removed the drive in bay 1 and temperatures for me have going down quite a bit (from an average of 79/80 C to 73/74 C). Hope I answered your curiosity. (sorry for bad English)