I have an early 2008 Mac Pro with 2x4 Intel XEON 2.8 and 10GB RAM.

Hard drives/SuperDrives are generic and can be replaced, as you may have already guessed.Īny other component is probably “custom” designed for a Mac Pro (the power supply for example) and you won’t be able to get away with it… But If you google around there are some posts about people who managed to make other cards work.įorget about upgrading your Motherboard, as it’s a custom design. Sadly, no other video card has that, other than the Apple’s offerings. That is to say, a PCIe video card designed exclusively for other operating systems will not work properly under Mac OS X without appropriate drivers and/or firmware” Video card: Unless you want to experiment with modified firmwares, your only choice in that model is the ATI 4870, which is considerably faster than the regular NVidia (it’s very noticeable in x-plane and 3d applications) but still lagging behind the “latest offerings”.Īccording to Wikipedia: 'The Mac Pro, as with other Macintosh platforms, requires Mac OS X firmware. OWC Mac Sales does have memory upgrades (there are others). Certain upgrades are possible, but it’s not that simple.Īccelerate your Mac is a nice source of information, you can find them here.ĪNandtech did change the CPU of a Mac Pro.

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