I'm still heavily using my Mac Pro 5,1 every single day, despite heaving much more powerful Mac's and Hackintosh (i9-14900K / RX 6900 XT). It is fully upgraded to the max (with thunderbolt) and still very powerful for music production. I even edit videos with DaVinci Studio 19, with no issues, And it's very nicely running Sequoia, a regular PC RX-580 and a boot screen To be honest, it is still my goto computer for just about everything.
I use my 5,1 all the time but for web surfing: overkill for sure! and for home theater playbck...12 core dual 5960's ,nvme,rx570 and 96gb ram...mutibooting with win 11 and 4 other mac os systems up to sonoma which I use the most...I just havent gotten around to sequoia yet... Plenty fast and able to handle so many things at once effortlessly, I still love it....Ive had so many underpowered computers, lacking in ram, or in cpu or both, that this one is a treat! Ive never even come close to making it sweat.
Me too. We have three in this house, upgraded with RX 6800 GPUs flashed for mac & with Pixlas mod. But with this we cannot go higher than Mojave, which is still good enough for everything we do, including Windows 11 Pro for gaming.
@@gibbynla It is not a Hackintosh. We are talking about the Mac Pro 5,1 that is no longer supported by Apple, but with OCLP works just fine on the latest macOS.
Awesome as always, Jessie. I'm running several mid-2010 MacPro 5,1s running latest OS and OCLP. I want to make a note to other mid-2010 MacPro 5,1s guys: An unpowered (dumb) 2.0 4-port hub doesn't work anymore with 2.0.2 OCLP. I had to use a 2007 extended keyboard as the hub. This is the 2007 thin metal one Jessie shows in the video. I plug in my regular wired USB keyboard (white 2003 extended keyboard) and my wired Apple mouse into the side ports of the 2007 keyboard then plug the 2007 keyboard into the front mac port then restart. Only the regular keyboard (white 2003 extended keyboard) and mouse work with this set up and the keyboard I'm using as the hub (2007 thin metal one) does NOT work as a keyboard. It ONLY works as a hub. In addition, you cannot use the white 2003 extended keyboard as your hub. This is the one with the USB ports at the top instead of the sides. It will not work as your hub. Only the 2007 thin metal one Jessie shows in the video works as a hub. Maybe another dumb 2.0 4-port hub will work for you but none of mine work anymore -- only the set up I have described. I hope this helps someone.
Thank you so much Jessie. Thanks for all the efforts you are putting into this channel and the content. Very much appreciated. Your guides helped extend the life of my MP5,1 and enjoy all new MacOS releases. You are the best!
Este canal es extraoridnaario!.... UN saludo desde Chile... Los fanaticos del MacPro 5.1 te agradecemos tu tremendo trabajo en cada uno de los videos...
Hi Jessie, a quick hello from France. Just to let you know that I have almost the same configuration as you with my Mac Pro 5.1 RX580 and that I had problems with the display of wallpapers and screensavers with Sequoia and OLP 2.0.1. However, I have no problems with my 2009 and 2011 iMacs (with GPU Metal upgrade Quadro K2100M), and my MacBook Pro 2012. Fortunately OLP 2.0.2 has just been released, and I couldn't wait for your future video to find out if it would solve my problem. So I just tested it, and everything is fine now, and I feel like the overall display rendering is better, a little more vibrant. Thanks for your videos and all your explanations.
Your info is always very usefull, Jessie. 👍 However at this moment I stay with Monterey because of the AVX/AVX2 issues with some graphics 3D applications and my printer doesn't work on higher systems.
Hello Jessie Talking about the hub when installing Big Sur and up, I never used the hub since I connected to the USB 3.0 card,it works. I have 2 mid 2012 Mac Pro with 6 Cores and 12 Cores and I installed from Big Sur to Sequoia plus Linux Mint too. By the way,Apple Music app doesn't work properly,my 2019 Mac Pro doesn't have any issues with it. Great video Jessie
I used my 5,1 until the M1 released. I upgraded it to the 3,4 ghz 12 core cpu and a RX 580 and ssd and it was a great an solid machine. Since every Silicon based Macbook destroys it this heavy and power consuming beast makes no mire sense for me.
261 / 5,000 Thanks for this video! I've been an idiot. I have bought several 580's and thought they were all broken. With your video, everything is obvious and self-evident. However, I should mention that I haven't been losing sleep over the problem, but it has annoyed me. Thanks again.
Nice video, thanks. My 5.1 is running Monterey with a RX6600XT witch is for me the best video card for this computer in terms of Power/speed/price... Unfortunately, it means my 5.1 is stuck forever with Monterey. I don't want to downgrade Gpu with an RX580 in order to upgrade the OS...
I have updated 4,1 to 5,1 Mac Pro with dual booting Mac OS and Windows 11. to be honest.. Windows 11 give me way faster experience. unless you have real good reason to stay with Mac OS.. I would suggest Windows 11 for Mac Pro 4,1 or 5,1. graphic card is Radeon 480. My NVME/PCI adapter installed has Mac OS and regular SATA SSD has Windows 11.. still windows 11 wins. I am considering switching each other but I have less reason to keep Mac OS for now.
I didn't mess around with the Open Legacy Patcher; it was easier to upgrade my iMac, especially when dealing with those old Intel processors. Especially if you have an old machine, you need a lot of RAM to work the new software properly; it's a RAM heater. You'd be better off upgrading your machines. You're doing well running those old machines, keeping the old Intel going. To run this software, you need sixteen gigs of RAM to run it properly. It will be too slow on eight gigs of RAM. If you've got an old hard drive, it's going to be worse. You're not going to get any more significant upgrades with that old Intel; it's too slow. This will be the last significant software upgrade. 😊 What I love about the old iMac is you can upgrade them; you can't do that with the new iMac. Forget about the patcher; upgrade your machines. I've seen folks running two thousand and five machines you've done very well it seems from old machines going 😅😅😅
Hey guys I’ve just done a clean install of sequoia 15.0 on my 5,1 with oclp 2.0.3 amazing - completely installed and automatically performed root patches. So when it start - it was done. Installed everything I need except the UAD Apollo Now on sequoia you have to allow installations but they get stuck - anyone have this problem, word 2016 was the same writing scrips for ages but eventually it passed - not so much with UAD
Excellent video especially the trick to get the EFI boot screen with a USB drive . I have a ssd in the Sata drive and one in the pci express drive . Is it best to install Mac OS on the pci drive? Also my wireless mouse is a bit intermittent using Sonoma. Also seems to be a problem with a wired mouse. Is this a bug that might be fixed with sequoia I wonder? Many thanks for all your videos going to install sequoia on my Mac Pro 5.1 Sapphire 580 .
Hi Jessie, as always thanks for all your work and information that you share with us. I have an old Mac Pro (2009) and I'm wondering what is the best solution to keep it alive. I installed a Metal compatible ghraphic card (Geforce GTX 680 4Gb), USB 3.0 hub on PCI-Express, disconnected the internal bluetooth receiver and plugged and external one on the USB3.0 hub, installed a new SSD on PCI Express card... what else... that's basically all. Is it enogh in you opinion? What OS do you suggest for my Mac? Thanks a lot for your suggestions. ps. a curiosity out of the blue... on the old El Capitan OS I can see and use the SSD on the PCI-Express, but when the system go to sleep it is automatically unmounted... is that normal? Can I install the new OS in this SSD? Thanks again!
@@paiaria that might be a system behavior of El Capitan, I’m not sure. The only upgrade option would be to go with a RX580 as NVIDIA support is not very good
What an excellent, comprehensive video, kudos! Apologies if you mention it elsewhere and I missed it-what adapter are you using to use the Cinema Display? I have an old Thunderbolt Display that I’d love to put to work with my Mac Pro 4,1 flashed 5,1!
Good morning Jessie, On my macpro 5.1 from 2010, the live button on photos doesn't work, I did it on my macbook pro from 2017 14.3 and there's no problem, you can test, thank you, Victor
Hello, excellent as always, I have a question I installed SEQUOIA on my Mac Pro Trashcan but when doing Mirroring with my iPhone 12 Pro Max with IOS 18, I don't know why it doesn't let me advance from a specific point, when I try to do it and it asks me to put the password on my iPhone I put it but it doesn't let me advance 😟
Navi 21 GPU's are only supported up to Monterey. "Maybe" in the future, but not yet. Stick to a RX-580 if you want to install anything beyond Monterey.
I have 3 Mac Pro’s. ( 2 are 2010 ) and one is 2009. I want to upgrade the CPU’s in 2009 but I can’t get the firmware upgrade tool to work. When I try to upgrade the firmware and reboot the computer it starts the upgrade then reboots. It never completes the upgrade. Thats one thing I would like to fix. Also can you make a video on how to create the USB installer thumb drives with Opencore included ?
Nice Information Jessie, I love this MacPro 5.1 and have done all modifications(CPU 5690/Graphics card) ,works great,I am unable to Install any macOS on NVME on PCIE slot4,During installation suddenly drive disappears,What I have to do?Also pl share USB 3.0 card info (both)
I now have a rx 6800 xt in macos 12.x. Switching to oclp for sequoia I would need to revert to an rx 580?! Why the step back on the supported gfx card?!
@@JessiesFlying thank you for your quick response. As I learned it has to do with the drivers having been compiled against AVX2 supported CPUS which the 5,1 don't have, so no way to use these drivers.
@Jessie: I want to let you know that I am successfull in upgrading all MBPs 9,2 using a single USB. Thanks for your advice regarding this. I would like to ask you about upgrading Macbook air 2015 which I plan to do in a few days after finding new USBs when I have time. Do you aware of any problems upgrading to 15.0 from 14.7 for MB Air 2015. They have no ethernet jack to connect so I am a little worry about losing Wi-Fi before I can do post install patch. Please illuminate me about your experience. Thanks Jessie.
@@sko556 I’m not aware of issues - simply install KDK and MetalLib upfront and do the update and have OCLP on the USB drive to install root patches afterwards for WiFi
@@JessiesFlying My MBA 13" is 7,2, I checked for KDK in it and it is only 14.3 after updating to 14.7 5 days ago. I can try to download KDK but I am not sure of how to download Metallib and where to save it. Can you please guide me. Thank you so much.
@@sko556 check out my video here: Tips & Tricks to install macOS 15 Sequoia on UNSUPPORTED MACs! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uxC_pCm7pzA.html
one more great and very useful video, Jessie is N1 ! But I have an issue with the Videocard RX580 8GB Nitro on Mac Pro 5,1. It boots normally with windows 10 (OpenCore) but the same card is not recognized on Mac OS Sonoma (Black screen, no boot, keeps restarting because does not detect the card. Please help.. Thank you and keep up the good work.
@@JessiesFlyingthx for the reply🙂 I have a RX580 modded with boot screen working perfectly on my 5,1 / Sonoma 14.7, after switching the card with a "normal" rx580 Nitro the Nitro does not work, it should remember the boot disk right? What am I missing here ? heeeelp 🙏🙂
another thing, when I install Mac OS (any) from USB, after reboot does not find the drive (🚫similar icon) and shuts down. If I install or upgrade from internal HD to different HD on Mac Pro works. I installed (any) OS no problem on other Mac Pros.
Hey Jessie, I had to go back down to High Sierra to get a license to work, and after I wiped the drive and reinstalled HS and zapped the pram, no installed bootup works. FYI the HS bootup works externally for my MBPro 2011. Called place where I got the used Mac Pro 5,1 and they have no clue either. Any ideas for a remedy? I'm this 🤏close to just buying the cheapest used 5,1 I can find and just putting my upgrades into it. Any info appreciated.
Hey Jessie, I was able to get into recovery with the Monterey bootup, but not the High Sierra bootup. I am having it reinstall Monterey, should this work?
I thought you would show an install of sequoia. I have a Mac Pro 5,1 with 64 gig ram, a flashed Mac vid card 580 so I can see boot picker, NVME but after installing sequoia, patching with OCLP 2.0.1, I cannot see or change wallpaper or screensaver.
@@JessiesFlying I did see and fallow it but no luck. Downloaded all the extra package file. Though I don’t need it because I hardwire into internet when updating
@@JessiesFlying what I do is always make a new volume and instal there to test it. I still have Sonoma. After several attempts of fresh install having used OCLP to make a USB installer then running the patch after install completes several times in fact, it persists.
Sorry for writing here, but somehow it is related. I bought a second hand iMac 27" mid 2011 for my sister, and just noticed that it's running Catalina with dosdude Catalina patcher. I wanted to reinstall high Sierra from a bootable usb but it's impossible, it looks like there is no recovery partition or i can not reach it. Of course i tried the keyboard shortcuts at boot, but the recovery doesn't come up, not even work the internet recovery. Very strange. So i just thought, maybe i can install a newer macos with OCLP on top of this dosdude Catalina? Is that possible? If yes, which OCLP MacOs would work flawless on this iMac? I already made successful OCLP installation with the Sonoma on my unsupported iMac 27" late 2012 successfully, and it's working great. I would really appreciate some of your advice what to do. Thanks in advance.
@@JessiesFlying Thank you! Actually i wanted to put back the original High Sierra, the latest supported OS for this model. In internet recovery i could erase the Macintosh HD for clean install, after i choose install high sierra from the menu, and just a message came up, the recovery server can not reach or something like this. I also tried the bootable usb but after i choose it , it's just an apple logo and nothing happened. I will try to make a BigSur installer with OCLP on my iMac for this other iMac. As i remember there is way too do it, just have to choose the right model. Am i right?
@@JessiesFlying Problem solved: in the recovery at the erase part had to change/format the file system from apfs to macos extended journal. Because the patch made the file system to apfs for Catalina, that's why the bootable usb couldn't find where to install because high Sierra need macos extended . After this change the high Sierra installation was successful from boootable usb. :)
I ve updated my imac 2017 to Sequoia , but it only boot with my usb pen , always I have to use it when it boot. Even though tried to copy it into my imac disk , it dont work .Can you give me an advice? and how can I remove all files and get apple server original factory download to my imac?
@@pureflower5248 downgrade only via clean install: Easiest Tutorial to instal macOS Sonoma on UNSUPPORTED MACs! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gmwneF_YsCA.html
Hello, a question, have you tried to install on a MacBook Pro 2017? Because I have a problem when I already press the EFI boot to enter the installation before formatting the disk, it asks me to connect a keyboard and a mouse to the computer or it recognizes the keyboard or mouse of the MacBook and the truth is that I have already placed via bluetooth mouse and keyboard and it never recognizes them
Many thanks for your helpful videos! I managed to install macOS Sonoma with OCLP on my Mac Pro 5.1 (with PC-GPU RX 580 and OWC PCIe-Sata-SSD-Adapter) right away. So far it has been running macOS 10.14.6. I would like to be able to choose between the old macOS 10.14.6 (without OCLP) and macOS Sonoma (with OCLP) when booting. Is that possible? When I press the Alt-Key after the system sound, I only see black on the screen. So far I can only switch between the systems if I remove the SSD with the other system. Could you make a video about such a dual boot, or is it quite simple and I'm missing something?
@@JessiesFlying Thank you very much for your quick reply! Initially, the OCLP boot selector was visible and when I clicked on the icon for macOS Sonoma, everything worked and Sonoma started and worked properly. But when I clicked on the icon for the old macOS 10.14.6, it did not start, only an icon with a crossed-out circle appeared. But since I still need macOS 10.14.6, the only solution that worked was to remove the PCIe SSD card with macOS Sonoma and then start the old macOS 10.14.6.
Good afternoon Jessie, I had a problem related to the wallpaper, it has now been resolved and I left it in a comment. I have two MacPro 5.1 One of them has an original card, the other with the RX 580, now everything works fine on both. I have a question, in addition to other Macs I have a Macbook pro 15 from 2017 with touch bar, after what I read I couldn't find anything to say whether the touch bar works or not in SEQUOIA, I would appreciate your opinion, thank you. Victor Sousa
I feel a bit ashamed. I have installed Sequoia on my Mac Pro 5,1. I'm using an OWC sled in the PCI slot with a standard Samsung SSD (1t). But I'm just not using it much yet. It runs fine.
@jessie: You are providing a lot of information but I don't have any Mac Pro unfortunately. I want to ask about the possibility of using same USB for upgrading to Mac Os Sequoia for my macbook pros 2012 and macbook 2016. Is it possible to reuse the same USB for Macbook Pro 9, 2, I have 4 of them and Macbooks 2016, , I have 3 of them. If so, how can I use the same single USB to upgrade without redownloading the 15.0 installer and OCLP 2.0.1 and without erasing the USB. The local retail electronic store has been selling a few USB installer only each time and they run out and only online available at times. I have upgraded multiple iMacs and Macbook Pros 2016 using different new USBs without any problems to 15.0. Please advise for single USB use for multiple same model upgrade. Thanks
@@JessiesFlying Do I have to wipe and reinstall the USB or can I use same USB without wiping out and reinstalling same Mac OS 15.0. All my MacBook 12” are same models for 2016 and all my MacBook Pro are Same model ID 9,2 2012. Can I just eject the same USB with Mac OS 15.0 installer in it from same model to another same model without wiping and without building open core and Mac OS 15.0 installer ? Please clarify it for me? Thank you.
@@JessiesFlying Thank you. I have only the latest OCLP 2.0.1 in the USB with 15.0 installer for same macbook models. I think I don't have to install different OCLP patcher at this time until newer one come out later. Correct ?
To bring down cost of the new systems that ARE SOOOO OVER PRICED * ASK why do i need to upgrade to another new system WHY Just because its there , Help Break the cycle of buying a new system every yr. Wow really . There are 75% of us that cannot afford to buy a new computer every 5 yrs , The other 25 % of people are either Stupid rich or Need finatial help. So what happens is The builders Make More profits on You At some point the Industry is only going to depend on the18% of the multi million $ Industries to survile on Not any public Money.
I have mac pro 7,1 with sonoma, is it okay to install newer version of mac os? (Open core legacy patcher) Core 2 duo 2.66 ghz with 8 gb ram and 500 gb ssd
@@JessiesFlying why don’t recommend? Because new mac os just released and have many bugs or I can’t install in future also because of hardware? Mention that its my second device and Im not using it as a daily main device
@@darrenhankner5282 Buy that and in a few short years you won’t be able to update when Apple drops intel all together and no OCLP will be able to help.
Hi, thanks for another helping video. I have a MP 5,1 with RX580, and the old GeForce GT120. I'm starting my upgrade and the boot screen (or black screen) causes me always a problem that I'm trying to resolve. I am about studying the "Enable GOP" process (here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NwjAfPYLFnE.html and here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LkDl6LSq37M.html ), but I'm discovering your advice (chapter #4) related to swapping GPUs while installing a new MacOs. You say "be sure, before swapping cards, to revert root patches". It maybe could ease my pain… Do you think it's not necessary to "enable GOP", if I follow your advice? Please confirm if this procedure would be correct: 1. Via OCLP installed on my High Sierra disc (with GT120) I install Monterey (for the moment) on a different SSD. 2. ⚠Now, I need to understand: DO I execute "Post-install Root Patches", and then I revert them, or I DON'T apply P-iRP before I swap the cards ? 3. I swap the cards and restart my MP… and everything would be OK with my RX580?
@@JessiesFlying Thank you for this clarification. Concerning the 'Enable GOP' procedure, I will do my own research that would complete my present knowledge… :-)
