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.