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If you're still running a MacPro4,1->MacPro"5,1" conversion, be really careful attempting this: one of the few differences is that its bootrom only has a single VS_Cache (i.e. the real MacPro5,1 , manufactured 2010+, has two VS_Cache). This can lead to a VS_Store corruption == noBOOT sadMAC It turns out that the essentially no difference thing wasn't true... but fortunately these things are such antiquated beasts that just two people can fix this, via email, by custom "rebuilding your VS_Store firmware" – you'd have to search the forums. One sad day soon... the "5,1"s won't boot (without pre-emptive maintenance, or an onboard reflow of the many-pinned bootROM chip). Every bootup... one step closer to its eWaste fate. ---- Yes, it uses a lot of power, but my VEGA64 is about as fast as an RTX 5060Ti(8gb) for using Ollama, locally (eight year old design, but it used HBM2 !!). In wintertimes, this thing has reliably acted as a monero-mining space-heater, albeit quite inefficiently (no: I do NOT have a reversible heatpump; spaceheaters, only == no net-cost). |