I have an OLD MAC Pro first Generation with FC Pro 7.02 can I run FCX

[Craig Seeman]

[Gary Huff] “I mean, aren’t the GeekBench scores not that super-impressive for the entry-level 4-core Mac Pro over a ’08-’10 Mac Pro?”

2013 MacPro vs older models? I suspect the ’08 would lag far behind in many functions since it was ’09 were the “virtual” cores happened. GeekBench doesn’t measure GPU and that’s where the New MacPros shine. FCPX will take advantage of the addition GPU resources. Of course it may not make that much of a difference in some routine things… relative the price.

What would be interesting would be if there were an updated quad i7 MacMini with Haswell and Iris. I wouldn’t at all be surprised if that was competitive with a 2008 4 core MacPro in many areas.

[Lance Bachelder]

I would look for a 4,1 (early 2009) or newer Mac Pro. The 3,1 does not have hyper-threading and uses slower, much more expensive RAM.

I’m running a 4,1 dual quad 2.93 with SSD boot drive and off-the-shelf GTX760 and it’s pretty darn fast. Good enough til I spring for the new Mac Pro…

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[Jeff Kirkland]

I’d also recommend buying a more recent Mac Pro to run FCPX but for what it’s worth, I’m running FCPX 10.1 and Mavericks on my 2006 Mac Pro 1,1 and while it’s slower than my 2012 27″ iMac it’s still quite useable.

Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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[Jason Porthouse]

Jeff, I’d be interested in finding out how you made that work on your 1,1. I did post a link to a blog – ’64 on 32′ – but for some reason I can’t fathom it’s not been allowed. Can you elaborate on how you did it?

Jason

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[Darren Roark]

Apple didn’t write it a 64 bit kernel for whatever reason. It’s possible that at the time they EOLd it there were no supported GPUs for it that had 64 bit drivers and openCL. I guess “It just works” no longer fit.

[Jeff Kirkland]

“64 on 32″ is what did it for me. You need to have a compatible graphics card. I have a Radeon 5770 in mine.

I have other, newer Macs so I’m.not sure why I’m so obsessed with keeping the old Mac Pro going but it now has a new lease of life. Of course it’s hard to recommend running a hacked OS on your primary workstation as every software update may be it’s last – but so far it seems fine.

I plan to do some benchmarking of all my Macs over my Christmas break (to see if I can justify ordering the new Mac Pro) but performance-wise, it feels somewhere between my 2010 13 ” Mac Book and my iMac from the same year.

Jeff Kirkland | Video Producer | Southern Creative Media | Melbourne Australia
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