Upgrading my 2009 5,1 Mac Pro in 2021 | Opencore and Titan Ridge

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Here are the resources I used for this upgrade
Open Core instructions: bit.ly/3v5NTVq
Join the FaceBook group for more info: / 278717320142078
Titan Ridge Instructions: bit.ly/3fARbcK
Parts I Used:
Titan Ridge Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Card: amzn.to/3vaXomu
EEPROM BIOS Chip and Test Clip: amzn.to/3hC7YPo
Raid Card!: amzn.to/3fzu1n5
2TB NVME Drives: amzn.to/3wq4xPJ
2009 4,1 Mac Pro- I found it on Craigslist...
CPU Kit(The right one): bit.ly/30kSgMU
Ram: bit.ly/2P1i7Ix
GPU: amzn.to/3enGDMM
USB-C/3 PCI Card: amzn.to/2wKbPF6
SSD: amzn.to/2V7ocEk
SSD Caddy: amzn.to/3eopqmv
New Display: amzn.to/34AczZX
Wifi-Bluetooth Card: bit.ly/2ZfB6D9
Wifi-Bluetooth Card adapter: bit.ly/2HfdQLA
Bluetooth Extension Cable: amzn.to/2VrkYux
Gear I use:
Canon C200: amzn.to/2M8tBFZ
My Main Camera: amzn.to/3ch1NKC
My favorite lens: amzn.to/2xy55dN
My workhorse lens: amzn.to/2RzJdp6
My SD cards: amzn.to/34GdNCL
My Mic: amzn.to/2yTk1mX
Camera Strap: amzn.to/2ybW0r9
Tripod: amzn.to/2wG4c2r
Monitor Recorder: amzn.to/3emcspd
Cage: amzn.to/2wIBRIM
Main Light: amzn.to/3b5IQKG
C-Stand: amzn.to/2Vtbj6B
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@caperbrennan4556 3 жыл бұрын

Nice update and much thanks, Take Care.

@BenSchubert 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, you too!

@moetarded7757 2 жыл бұрын

I have a fleet of 5.1 2009. I have titan Ridge with 10g eithernet adapter with 10g switch and now I can use Compressor for final render in a render farm configuration. Add FireWire to a virtual bridge and your getting 1600 mbs/s. I really hated waiting till the morning to post a 10 minute video. Thank God for proxy media. Your my hero! Lastly get an OWC tb3 doc to add power to your cards it helps. I have 3 connected to the 10g eithernet adapterz OWC. Add Vega 56 plus 2 eGPUs with 580s for D-Resolve. Darn you FCP. Open core hurt my feelings.

@BenSchubert 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like beast! Enjoy!

@Taras-Nabad 7 ай бұрын

Great video

@PaoloBalestri 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you man! Love it!

@BenSchubert 2 жыл бұрын

awesome, Thanks!

@stuartibbotson7179 2 жыл бұрын

best machine in the world thanks ben great You tube

@emotionalintelligence776 2 жыл бұрын

I can't say the who what or where I stumbled upon OCLP. But as soon as I found I could update my well ALL my Macs things kinda snowballed. First I did dosdude Catalina patch just to get my feet wet. And naturally, if you have an un-flashed PC GPU you don't have a boot screen on your Mac Pro. So going treasure hunting after a day looking in bins I found my apple approved GPU. I must say I didn't have any issues upgrading to Big Sur although I was aiming for Monterey later realizing I haven't upgraded my BT Wi-Fi combo. Big Sur has been speedy so much that I patched every other Mac even my old 2010 MBP runs Big Sur without issue.

@mspexcite 2 жыл бұрын

Id like to see a comparison between your mac and the M1 MBP

@jaybarnhisel1 2 жыл бұрын

I understand that you have to jump pins 3 and 5 to power it up preperly.

@YourMom-br2je 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. I have an 09 that I have upgraded as well. 2 x 6 core 3.46ghz, 32 gigs 1333 OWC brand ram, Owc mercury extreme pro ssd for os, and Rx 580. My issue is finding software to utilize the gpu. It sounds like Open Core is the solution to upgrade. Thanks man

@sinusshephard5314 2 жыл бұрын

I’m wondering what will be the next mac pro 5,1performance mod.

@lauraseva9100 2 жыл бұрын

I bought two mac pro 2009 for $200 AUS and another one for $50 that was damaged in transport and the handle is bent. I plan to watch your videos and update them and sell one and keep two, one for parts and one to use.

@travisraab 2 жыл бұрын

I love this project. Do you mind if I ask how much you've sunk into this machine altogether?

@BenSchubert 2 жыл бұрын

Altogether, a little over $3000. But my NVME raid card is probably $1600 of that. The general machine with upgrades and GPU was about $1200. The my 8tb spinning drives are about $200 at the moment. This is all in Canadian dollars too

@tombinroth 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, how reliable is Open Core? Did you encounter any issues e.g booting with the MacPro in your daily work? Can you share a comment about speed? Is macOS Big Sur slower than Mojave?

@midimike88 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Ben, thanks for the video. Did you end up getting the NVMe RAID 0 to install? Would you share some details on that?

@BenSchubert 3 жыл бұрын

I did get it going. It is reading at about 4000MB/s. Not as fast as I was hoping but still plenty fast for what I need

@mayatoizuki 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Ben, nice upgrade. I've a question for you, does the titan ridge need to be powered by the Power Supply ? Thanks

@BenSchubert 2 жыл бұрын

Mine isn’t but there may be peripherals that would benefit from it. I mostly only use it for data transfer and to run a Thunderbolt Display.

@d.harris790 3 жыл бұрын

Greetings Ben, how did you get hardware acceleration with opencore? Did you have to use any additional software? I just recently installed opencore in my Mac Pro and was trying to figure out how to get hardware acceleration working. Does it only work with certain apps? Thanks in advance.

@BenSchubert 3 жыл бұрын

The hardware acceleration is specific to video formats like h.265. That’s about it.

@Nahuekeys 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, i´m in the same boat. I think this are great machines! You wanna put the 5700xt?? with that gpu and open core i think that performs amazingly well considering the age of this machine. Best regards from Argentina, i hope new content about your upgrades on the mac pro. Or maybe about how you manage content in your machine. Scratch disks and all about that. I´m fighting with my mac pro editing Red 8k footage on davinci... Greetings from argentina!!

@BenSchubert 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I’m not sure what gpu I’m going to update to based on availability and compatibility. 5700xt or the 6900xt are what I’m looking at but not likely to do anything at this point in time given the shortages. My machine works for what im doing so this is likely the last upgrade I do for a while

@Nahuekeys 3 жыл бұрын

@@BenSchubert thank you so much for your reply. I´m still with a RX570 and its working great! Best regards and take care!!

@friscoTT 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Ben, I have my cMP working with the TitanRidge and thru an USBC cable can I connect my monitor and with the other an external drive that gives me 1Gb/s. It’s really awesome, yes I have it internally connected to the power supplies and the DP connectors to my GPU for video passthru...

@BenSchubert 3 жыл бұрын

Nice, I'll have to get that cable to connect the power.

@dietalarmclock2607 2 жыл бұрын

should run faster with 96GB because it prefers 3 ram slots per core

@moetarded7757 2 жыл бұрын

I have been trying to network 10g with the titan Ridge. No dice yet. I want to be able to use Compressor to the max. My $12 solution is to create link aggregate with fire wire between 3 computers.

@BenSchubert 2 жыл бұрын

Titan ridge is definitely not as plug and play as I would like. Hope your solution works out!

@bakmaharangana 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Ben , Thank you for the videos. I have a MacPro 5,1 , OpenCore, bigsur installed already. Recently i have bought Titan Ridge and flashed it properly, im not sure what is the next step to enblae the Thunderbolt in the system ? can you please help me ?

@BenSchubert 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t remember all of the titan ridge steps other than: “when in doubt do a P-Ram reset 3 times.” Triple check the online guide that exists on GitHub and when in doubt ask the Facebook group for help. If you aren’t already apart of them, there is one for MacPro upgrades, OpenCore, and the Titan ridge. Best of luck 🤞

@tonytech5520 2 жыл бұрын

The model identifier for the 2009 Mac Pro is actually 4,1 while the 2010-2012 Mac Pro is 5,1

@averagechannel5527 2 жыл бұрын

Or hear me out he flashed the firmware to 5,1.

@fabioguida80 3 жыл бұрын

Aggiornando l'hardware (CPU GPU RAM) e portarla al massimo, si riesce ad effettuare l'aggiornamento Ufficiale Software della Apple?

@BenSchubert 3 жыл бұрын

You can officially go up to Mojave, but there are other options like Open Core which let you go higher. I am on Big Sur

@fabioguida80 3 жыл бұрын

@@BenSchubert grazie infinite..ad oggi è conveniente comprare un macPro 5,1 oppure sono soldi sprecati? Per quanto tempo ancora sarà possibile aggiornare il sistema operativo?

@jbghumanjr 2 жыл бұрын

I've done all upgrades and even added extra power via external source to crank my GPU. But still drags even the most basic timelines. :( Is there anything else I can do to make this system move smoothly when editing in Premier Pro? Like, can I switch out the Logic Board with a 2012 Mac Pro? Equally, I'd love to update to 11.2.3 given I'm able via OpenCore but... can't seem to find a link anywhere online to that specific Mac OS. TY for all the videos ps!!

@BenSchubert 2 жыл бұрын

I don't think changing out the logic board is going to help. I have been having troubles with Premiere for a while now. There are definitely file formats that it struggles with. DaVinci Resolve on the other hand works way better. even the free version. These days if Iam working in Premiere I will transcode anything that is not h.264 to Prores

@jbghumanjr 2 жыл бұрын

@@BenSchubert Sigh, mkay... I'm a premiere pro only editor so I guess I'm stuck. Just bummed after doing so much upgrades, etc. the system is still lagging so much as I edit. But it is over a decade old. ty man. Will suffer through until I finally just upgrade to a new MAC.

@pkerry12 2 жыл бұрын

I am very surprised people are still using a 2009 mac pro I sold my 2009 mac pro 8 core back in 2013 when i upgraded to the trash can 2013 mac pro :D but yeah I am shocked people still use it.

@Rood67 2 жыл бұрын

I have a 2008 and two 2010 cheese graters. The 2008 was gifted to me, the others I bought from a wedding videographer that was expanding and needed to upgrade. I’ve been looking to upgrade to Big Sur because 12 core, 64Gb is still a good machine regardless of age.

@OfficialA.v.X 2 жыл бұрын

Could you flash it I buy it off you please and if you could give me a price buddy

@BenSchubert 2 жыл бұрын

I'm not selling mine but you can find flashed cards on ebay

@OfficialA.v.X 2 жыл бұрын

@@BenSchubert fair enough. they are just so blimin expensive. I mean the card it self sells for like 50/60/70 pounds but a flashed one is like £150 plus 😩

@BenSchubert 2 жыл бұрын

Flashing it wasn’t too tricky and the kit was inexpensive

@OfficialA.v.X 2 жыл бұрын

@@BenSchubert ok just need to find a legitimate video on flashing it then and I’ll give it a go 👍🏾

@BenSchubert 2 жыл бұрын

There is a Facebook group that I found helpful too. Just search for titan ridge