Is it worth upgrading a Mac Pro 2010 in 2024?
My brother’s Mac Pro is single CPU, Quad-Core 2.8 GHz Xeon W3530, Mac Pro with 32 GBs of RAM, and a hand-me-down GeForce 1060. He'd like to upgrade it so he can put off buying a new computer for a year or two and didn't want to spend much money.
So he purchased an AMD 6600 XT and 6-Core CPU for all of $225. This is the process and the results.
XFX Speedster SWFT 210 Radeon RX 6600
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Syncretic's AMD 6000 series ROM patcher
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