
For a super-high speed bootable storage solution, you can't go past a M.2 PCIe (AHCI) SSD.Follow this guide to install the RAM modules. 16GB ECC registered modules cannot be mixed with 4GB or 8GB ECC unbuffered modules. Single module setups will not work and there must be at least two RAM modules installed in the machine. This model is running dual 'X' series (X5650) CPU's, therefore can fully utilise up to 128GB of total RAM.- PCI Express card upgrade guide (for installing a blade SSD or GPU).Latest Supported OS: MacOS Mojave and above.It also has 2 external 5.25" front bays, 4 internal 3.5" drive bays, 4 PCIe slots (2X PCIe 2.0 x16 and 2X PCIe 2.0 x4) with the video card using one slot.Īdditionally these machines have 5 USB 2.0 ports, 4 Firewire 800, 2 Gigabit Ethernet, 2 Mini DisplayPorts, 1 dual-link DVI port, AirPort Extreme (802.11a/b/g/n) and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. Other processor upgrades for this model were also offered.The base factory configuration for this model is 6GB DDR3-1333 (PC3-10600) ECC SDRAM, a 7200 RPM/32MB cache 1TB 3Gb/s SATA hard drive, an 18X dual-layer "SuperDrive" plus an ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics card running 1GB of GDDR5 RAM.Įxpansion is where these models shine with 8 memory slots, each accepting up to 16GB per slot, yielding 128GB possible maximum.

This BTO 'Build to Order' Mac Pro "Twelve Core" 2.66 Mid-2010 (Westmere) gets it's heartbeat from dual 2.66GHz Six Core 32-nm Xeon X5650 Westmere processors with dedicated 256k of level 2 cache per core and 12MB of level 3 cache per processor.
