New Mac Pro and FCP7 reality check

[Mickey Power]

Hi Declan

When you say you got your 09 MP upgraded, what was done to it in the way of processor and graphics card? I’ve got a 3.3ghz 6 core MP which I’m hoping to upgrade (already have lot of RAM and an SSD).

Mickey

[Declan Smith]

Hi Mickey,

All upgrades are relative to your starting point. The details of before and after my upgrade are below:

My 2009 MacPro started as this:

Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 8
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per Processor): 8 MB
Memory: 24 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 5.86 GT/s

With the standard GT 120 video card and the following:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570:
VRAM (Total): 1280 MB

Following the upgrade:
Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro5,1
Processor Name: 6-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 3.46 GHz
Number of Processors: 2
Total Number of Cores: 12
L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB
L3 Cache (per Processor): 12 MB
Memory: 64 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 6.4 GT/s

With graphics card:
NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
VRAM (Total): 6144 MB

Declan Smith
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[Steve Mullins]

i made disc images of all the fcs discs (back in 2010) i recently (april 2015) did a fresh install on yosemite – worked all find, apart from fx factory no longer working (which i use alot).

Just make disc images of the discs and double click, install them – you probably just need the apps which are 4gb in size so just deselect the media option