Yep ' its surely quite a hurdle in trying to make sense in what is possible and what aint, and what only relates to +2008 (64) Mac Pro's and wich includes the 32efi and all of this how does it handle to boot in windows and with is only valid past 10.8 when it comes to driver and grahic cards.
An hazzle when trying to modernize an old Mac pro1.1, but then again also close to a decade old.(But Im very fund of it, the materiel, very low noise, the multiple operating-systems on numerous bootdisk)
was planning on putting in a new graphic card, and more ram, and disks on the PCIe.
for ram its seems very straight forward,and very cheap and all server ram with those specs "4GB PC2-5300 DDR2 667MHz 240-Pin DIMM ECC Fully Buffered 1.8V" should work as i reckon. and cost ridicalus 6US pr block, but even if I max out the mac pro1.1. with 32GB I guess its only relative the effect I will receive 10.7.5, and in windows hence the win7-32bit limit, they won't matter.. is it only 2GB that Windows take into account or?
Disks on the PCIe, is it correct that the max, on a mac pro without raid, is about 255mb and limits to the sata2 protocol and the Mac pro 1.1 PCIe x1..
got an couple of SSD-Sata disks in it right now, -an very old Intel 80GB X25-M G2 that cost an arm and a leg back 09 and that specific SSD is laying on top of the two optical drive where there are some space above and also power and its nice and neat put away, and connected thrue a cable to the main board.
The other is a very cheap Kingfast K6 that cost about 45US(incl shipping) purchased an couple of months ago and this one are connected to the first SATA port instead of the 3.5 bracket.
I have pasted the two blackmagic speedtest in 10.7.5 on these two and doubtful have much more horsepower there is to gain, by going thrue the PCIe on an old Mac pro1.1.
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