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Originally Posted by KevWind
After finding out the new Mac Pro was going to base price @ $6k
I have decided to finish upgrading my current Mac Pro so as to hopefully last another 3 to 5 years.
My Mac is a Mid 2010 333GHz 6 core Westmere
I had already installed a PCIe based SSD for a boot drive about 2 or 3 years ago . and upped RAM to 24 GB.
I just yesterday replaced the old factory installed GPU (graphics card)
With a new Sapphire Radeon Pulse RX 580 8GB GDDR5 ( so as to make my machine Mojave capable) And hopefully improve rendering speed in Final Cup Pro X.
Next I plan on filling the last of the 4 PCIe slots with 2 Samsung PCIe NMVe 970 EVO Plus 1TB SSD blades, on a dual blade adaptor.
Which will eliminate my current use of HDD storage internal drives for Pro tools sessions and FCPX projects and SATA
And should bring my machine relatively close to today's Mid-high end specs (except for RAM speed)
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You should see a really nice speed boost from the ssd drives. During the last year I had it, my early 2008 Mac Pro got really moody. I put a bit of money into it but I felt like I was throwing good after bad. I hope you have better luck than I did.