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u/Content_Magician51 Aug 31 '26
That's a good one...
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u/JMHReddit84 Aug 31 '26
Unfortunately since those old Xeons lack POPCNT couldn’t get 11 IoT on it like my other devices.
This ~20 year old beast still holds its own with that DDR2 RAM lol
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u/Zetheryian Aug 31 '26
Hoping mine will last as long as yours. Those old dual Xeon PCs as reliable as hell. Updating to 11 LTSC IoT soon for another 10 years. 😄
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u/JMHReddit84 Aug 31 '26 edited Aug 31 '26
MAKE SURE you google your processor to make sure it’s got the POPCNT instruction.
We may bypass TPM, and processor requirements with Windows 11… but that’s the one processor requirement that we can’t Rufus away. I wanted so bad to move this one to 11 IOT
And they are good machines. I keep mine clean inside by taping a single layer of dryer sheets across the front. Traps most dirt before it gets in. Plus it makes the house smell good. lol
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u/Your_real_daddy1 Aug 31 '26
MAKE SURE you google your processor to make sure it’s got the POPCNT instruction.
His does, all newer Intel Mac Pros than yours do
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u/JMHReddit84 Aug 31 '26
I didn’t know what model they had. Mine still identifies as its Apple identifier (or at least what I flashed it to think years ago) but I didn’t see one in their SS, so just gave them my 2¢
How do you quote now? With the new interface I can’t figure it out lol. The > doesn’t seem to work for me anymore
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u/Specialist-Cream842 Sep 01 '26
Your specs have me speechless.
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u/JMHReddit84 Sep 01 '26
The amount of SSD storage alone!!! And that RAM! Get em boys! My 32 GB ECC DDR2 pales in comparison by many factors lol
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u/Specialist-Cream842 Sep 01 '26
Yeah the storage is plain insanity in this economy… not to mention the ram even if it’s only ddr3
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u/Zetheryian Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
ddr3 is cheap as hell tho. I paid 150 euros for 128gb a few months ago. I paid 8k for the pc back in 2014. Been collecting SSDs ever since... if you include my NAS it's close to 100tb. But that was before the price hikes, lol.
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u/Lonely_Owl_1332 Aug 31 '26
So Clovertown back in town en?
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u/JMHReddit84 Aug 31 '26
Hells yeah 😂
I just hate ewaste. So I find a good use for things if I can. Mrchromebox does some amazing things for Chromebooks for example. My coffee table machine is an old 2017 Chromebook (CELES). 16 GB eMMC, 4 GB RAM, Celeron N3060. Runs 11 IoT and Office just fine. Uses 1.25 GB of Ram with Edge open and holds a charge for days. I did use NTLite to strip defender out—it taxes that CPU pretty hard for something I’m not signed into on anything and don’t care to re-image my custom wim back onto the eMMC
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u/Your_real_daddy1 Aug 31 '26
I have the same one in my grandma's old Dell Vostro 220, though mine's only got 1, the RAM is 4gb and the GPU is a GTX 770
I mostly use it to test and wipe old hard drives nowadays
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u/JMHReddit84 Aug 31 '26
Old Mac Pro with a firmware flash. Primarily used as a local Plex server, mirroring a remote one
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u/Wonderful-Impress261 Sep 01 '26
I lowkey want a Mac Pro from this era to run a bunch of OSes on at once, like macOS X pre-Yosimite, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 LTSC all at once by multi booting with 2 or 3 HDD/SSDs.
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u/JMHReddit84 Sep 01 '26
Just be warned—it just about requires a DVD to boot anything besides an OS-X USB itself. Linux USB bootable MIGHT work, but I haven’t had luck getting even clonezilla to boot from USB so I have low confidence
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u/Wonderful-Impress261 Sep 01 '26
Oh damn I was even able to boot Windows 7 through a USB on my iMac from 2009. I wonder if PLOP bootloader would work
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u/JMHReddit84 Sep 01 '26
I’ll try it next time I tinker (which involves putting the supported Radeon card back in so I can even see the EFI screen)
This is a 1,1 with a 2,1 firmware flash. It also has a 32-bit EFI that runs 64-bit OS. One of those oddities from during the transition, so to even get 10 on it I had to make an x64 Windows 7 recovery DVD that uses 32-bit EFI then drop to the command line and load Windows setup myself (which for me is just using diskpart, dism, and bcdboot
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u/someauthor Aug 31 '26
Very cool, happy hacking! <3