OC Mac Pro in Bootcamp w/ SetFSB?
As my 2008 3,1 Mac Pro begins to enter its sunset years with no updates in sight, I've been trying to get a little extra performance out of it without spending too much money. I'm under the impression...
View ArticleFCP X, UStream, and GTX 470. WTF, Man!
How about this for weirdness... Last week I bought a GTX 470 for my Mac Pro 3,1 running 10.8.2. with the latest nVidia drivers. Everything seemed stable until today. Today, I was editing in Final Cut...
View ArticleGreasemonkey or equivalent for Macbook Pro
Hi there, I've just purchased my first Macbook Pro, new to apple laptops, and I'm wanting to install the equivalent to Greasemonkey which I had on my PC. Any ideas for something thats quick and simple...
View ArticleMac Pro RAM Question
I just bought 2009 Mac Pro 2.66GHz Quad - Core and I am extremely happy with it! It comes with 4 GB RAM (4x1GB) 1GB each slot and this is the first thing I want to change. After hours of Googling I...
View ArticleGraphic Card Questions
OK so I bought a MSI 560 ti computer boots and everything is grand sorta. The computer has had three cards in it in the last couple days.. 4870 1GB flashed cinebench 24.16 frames (8x or 16x) GT430 1 GB...
View ArticleDo I have USB 2.0?
I just ordered a pretty expensive device that requires USB 2.0 yesterday. I just now happened to notice that it requires USB 2.0. I have a Mac Pro 3,1 (Early 2008). How do I tell which version of USB...
View ArticleGTX 680 4GB CUDA and OpenCL
Hi am upgrading my video card Radeon 4870 from my Mac Pro 2009 OSX 10.8.2 to a EVGA GTX 680 4GB and I wanted to know if my Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Premiere/Effects will run faster with this card. Any...
View ArticleHarddrive crashed.. data recovery service needed now - recommendations?
I was informed at the apple store that my macbook pro hard drive has crashed and need a replacement. They wanted to put a new one in but also wants to keep my old one. I'll need to buy my own HD as I...
View ArticleRS232 Comms port in MacPro
First post... :D Have been a lurker on here for quite a while and have found it very resourceful. I now need some advice that I can't find an answer to. Got a MacPro 4.1 Quad 2.93 and have Windows...
View ArticleFix Power Brick Overheating
:D Try to overheat now sucka :cool: Uploaded with ImageShack.us Besides having a heat sink and a fan on my brink now I'm pleased to say it doesn't even get warm. Its not a big problem having it...
View Article$3,500 to spend on a new workstation
Hi guys- I'm a motion designer and am looking to upgrade from my 2011 MBP 17" as my main rig. I predominantly use After Effects CS6, but definitely use the rest of the Suite as well. Anyway, I'm...
View Articleis it o.k. to turn off my UPS at night?
Hi there, I have my Mac Pro and various ext. hard drive setups plugged into an APC UPS... I got this particular UPS on the advice of various gurus on this forum, and it seems to work very well. But I...
View ArticleFirewire 800 speeds between Hard drives
Good Evening, I am currently copying roughly 1TB of movies from one external FW 800 drive to another external FW800 drive. When I copy the files to an internal drive speeds are 80-84MB/s. The maximum...
View ArticleRecommendations on Air Purifier for 2010 12-Core Mac Pro
I just moved to a new place in Boston, the bedrooms are the only rooms with wall-to-wall carpeting and the previous occupants had dogs. I've cleaned the rugs numerous times, but twice in the month...
View ArticleMac Email & Account Help!!!!
When i got my mac, another apple id was used at the start page or whatever. I recently changed it. I wanna make sure I did everything I could have for the change to be complete. I changed the user...
View ArticleNeed help with new SSD
Hi, I just bought a new SSD, a Samsung 830 256gb. Currently I have a OWC 120 gb with two partitions, one for OS X (95gb) and one for Bootcamp (25gb). What I want to do is move the OSX partition to the...
View ArticleMac Pro 5.1 Power Supply Fan
I was looking on ebay for complete set of fans for my MP, to have as spares. Only problem is PS Fan because all I can find are two models: PN:076-1232, this one is for original MP and 076-1294 for...
View ArticleRandom Start-ups from sleep!
Hi Everyone, I'm running ML in my Mac Pro and I'm encountering very strange behavior with my Mac when I put it to sleep. When I go to bed with the Mac in sleep mode I can hear it start up randomly and...
View ArticleLocked out of Administrator's Account by Parental Controls
I have a 2010 Macbook Pro. I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. The problem occured when I tried to turn on Parental Controls for a User Account on my computer. Somehow, accidently, I put the lock on...
View ArticleThe New MacPro?
http://ipack3d.com/page8/index.php?c...sign%20Concept Seems like a really cool idea! Wonder what Apple will come up with. ----------
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