Oldmopars Posted yesterday at 03:49 PM Posted yesterday at 03:49 PM I have several computers, but I need to dedicate one to my flight sim build. I have a 2009 Mac Pro 5,1. This has dual Xeon X5690s in it. They are 3.46Ghz and 6 cores each. It has an RX 580 8gb right now, but I will upgrade that. Right now I have 16gb RAM, but can upgrade to 128gb fairly cheaply. I know this is older hardware, but it was a powerful workstation in its day. Do you think this will work? I can afford to buy a much nicer GPU if that is all I need, if I have to build a complete new computer, I will have to spread my funds across everything, not just a new GPU. The picture is my ATX converted Mac Pro with a Ryzen 7 5800XT. The Mac Pro in question looks the same.
MAXsenna Posted yesterday at 04:11 PM Posted yesterday at 04:11 PM Before my computer died it was a 3970K @3.7Ghz, 32GB, 2080TI, and I ran pretty much everything maxed out ≈40FPS.Get more RAM and a better GPU, and you'll be "okay", depending on your own standards and preferences. Worth a try I'd say! Welcome! Sent from my SM-A536B using Tapatalk
BitMaster Posted yesterday at 06:12 PM Posted yesterday at 06:12 PM There is no TPM 2.0 for this HW so Win11 for sure won't work on this platform, so you'd be stuck with Win10. If that is worth it, I honestly dunno. It likely has DDR-ECC RAM with 1333MHz iirc, safe & secure but slow too. Same with PCIe versions and modern GPU, it's problems wherever you look. Use that Tower, it's iconic, maybe the nicest Tower of all time impv, but forget the interior for DCS. 2 Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Sapphire Nitro+ 7800XT - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus XG27ACG QHD 180Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X
Aapje Posted 2 hours ago Posted 2 hours ago That CPU is almost 15 years old and as a Xeon, is not made for gaming (workstation CPUs are made to do a lot in parallel at a steady pace, not relatively little very fast). If you only get a new GPU, it will be really held back by the platform, especially in simming, with is relatively CPU-heavy. So my advice would be to do a platform upgrade designed for further future upgrading (by getting a cheap AM5 CPU that is still way faster than what you have now and that later can be replaced with an X3D CPU). There is no point in buying a way faster GPU and have it held back so it performs like a much slower one.
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