If you gotta stick to the budget than X5680's are usually about half the cost of X5690's so cost to performance wise the better VALUE is X5680's. I would recommend getting the fastest clock CPU you can. PCIe SSDs actually take longer to boot than SATA SSDs You may notice a little more snappiness from your system using a PCIe drive but it will not make a noticeable real world difference other than transfer speeds. The 970 EVO and PRO models are compatible with macOS
Mac pro 5.1 samsung evo pci mac#
Perhaps with future firmware updates for that model it could be more stable for macOS but right now every real mac and hackintosh has reported issues with this. I should say its a "bug" with the SSD and macOS. I do no think this is intentional on Samsung. It is incompatible with macOS! you will have all sorts of system instability problems.
Mac pro 5.1 samsung evo pci plus#
The other option is to get a Samsung 970 EVO Plus Series - 1TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD which the speeds are around 3,000 It's only $50 for the adapter to double my read/write speeds from 250's to 500 How much would that help in real world usage on working in a large 5.1 mix session? I was thing of getting a OWC Accelsior S: PCIe to 2.5" 6Gb/s SATA SSD Host Adapter. So yes I have a SSD (Samsung 1TH evo 850) in a drive bay. Your system ssd - is that on a pcie card or in a drive bay? If the latter pop that baby on a pcie card- better performance. It might make PT run a bit better but that gain is not coming from the cpu doing any less work - it's all on the gpu.
Having a faster/more hefty card won't really help cpu power any. Get your cpu setup finalized and working along with the ram and THEN see if you really need a different video card. To be honest swapping out the video card should be the last thing you do. You only lose the boot screen if the card isn't flashed. You really want to have all ram the same size/specs. 3 slots at 16 gig ram gives 48 gig and do the same on the other side for a total of 96 gig ram. Being you have a dual cpu unit and if you want to max performance I'd go with 3 ram slots filled in each side. A dual cpu version at that speed would be killer.įor ram using only 3 slots instead of 4 is definitely the way to go. I have a single 3.46GHz hex core cpu in my 2012 cheesegrater and it's been aces.
Sure a faster cpu will run a bit hotter but not enough to matter. I know I loose the boot screen which doesn't make a difference to me (I'll keep my 5770 for backup anyways) but would a much larger 8GB with some HUGE fans, but would having a far more powerful GPU help in any shape or form, lifting any CPU power giving me more juice in PT? so it comes down to more speed at 2x3 with a total of 48GB or 2x4 at 64GB?ģ) I've seen the XFX RX 580 all over the place (B&H, Amazon, etc) for $189. 1) you'll get the 3.33Ghz CPU (X5680) much cheaper and there's no noticeable difference and the X5680 runs coolerĢ) make sure to get the correct speed rating (1333 and not 1066) and yes 2x3 Sticks if you want speedģ) that GFX is plenty fast, I got myself a "slower" one on eBay, an AMD Radeon R9 280X which has been flashed for Macġ) Would it run that much cooler? heat IS a huge issue, but I always thought more GHz is always better? I found a phenomenal price on trading mine in for a 12c 3.46GHzĢ) most definitely getting 1333, but on the fence on 2x3 vs all all 8 slots.