Trashcan!

[micheledipaola]

Hello everybody,

let's talk about the Trashcan aka MacPro 6,1 and the quirks and issues it could show.

I would start with something that may look like inception: I'm talking about an Intel Mac used about BOOTCAMP windows emulation.

My son uses the Trashcan basically as a gaming PC, but the video drivers for the AMD FirePro cards aren't exactly up to date.
I found https://www.bootcampdrivers.com/ which claims to have more updated drivers, while AMD website has these : https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/Apple-Boot-Camp.html - any hint about how to improve graphics perfomance under bootCamp?

Also: I now have the D300 installed... but I have a spare D700 couple of cards. I have read they are terrible for generating heat etc, so I wonder if I should swap them in or not.

 

[n8blz]

Hello everybody,

let's talk about the Trashcan aka MacPro 6,1 and the quirks and issues it could show.

I would start with something that may look like inception: I'm talking about an Intel Mac used about BOOTCAMP windows emulation.

My son uses the Trashcan basically as a gaming PC, but the video drivers for the AMD FirePro cards aren't exactly up to date.
I found https://www.bootcampdrivers.com/ which claims to have more updated drivers, while AMD website has these : https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/Apple-Boot-Camp.html - any hint about how to improve graphics perfomance under bootCamp?

Also: I now have the D300 installed... but I have a spare D700 couple of cards. I have read they are terrible for generating heat etc, so I wonder if I should swap them in or not.

Good afternoon

I had hopes of using a trash can as a gaming machine, there are many decent titles that run on the various versions of MacOS it supports. However, the heat generated by the D700s basically put me off of ever trying it again. They reached alarmingly high temperatures and, if we're honest, pretty much every game that was available for intel Mac ran better on Windows, annoyingly.

I'm now not really sure what to do with the trash can. I have a decent installation on it with many apps from those days, but I pretty much never dig it out and turn it on. It's a shame because it's easily one of the most beautiful OSX machines.

 

[joevt]

I would start with something that may look like inception: I'm talking about an Intel Mac used about BOOTCAMP windows emulation.

BootCamp is not Windows emulation. It has two parts - one part for macOS for setting up the Windows partition. The second part is drivers for Windows. One does not need to use BootCamp to install Windows. It can be done manually - for when you want to have more than one other partition on the disk.

My son uses the Trashcan basically as a gaming PC, but the video drivers for the AMD FirePro cards aren't exactly up to date.
I found https://www.bootcampdrivers.com/ which claims to have more updated drivers, while AMD website has these : https://www.amd.com/en/resources/support-articles/release-notes/Apple-Boot-Camp.html - any hint about how to improve graphics perfomance under bootCamp?

I don't have any hints for improving graphics performance.
On my machines running Windows, I use Driver Genius from driver-soft.com to update drivers. I don't know how well it works with your setup.

Also: I now have the D300 installed... but I have a spare D700 couple of cards. I have read they are terrible for generating heat etc, so I wonder if I should swap them in or not.

Generating heat means it's working.

Benchmark each?
D700 has 3 times the VRAM, almost twice as many stream processors, almost twice as much memory bandwidth.
3.5 teraflops vs 2 teraflops.

An eGPU might be an option if not for the Thunderbolt 2 bandwidth. Go to https://egpu.io , click "Builds", enter

2013 "Mac Pro" Win

to search for results for your machine using Windows. Click the link in the Build link column for more info.
One of the links is this one:
https://egpu.io/forums/builds/2013-...tb3-exp-gdc-th3p4g3-mac-os-12-6-4-win10-22h2/