Wey hey! Mucho Kudos to
Cmfusco11 for his guide - and all who have contributed to the problem solving - thar she blows!
Talking of blowing - i think I might have gone with a Noctua cooler instead of the
Coolermaster 212X - quiet enough, but you can hear the fans whir up and down with the sides off - wonder if all fans make the same noise no matter how much you pay? Hard to say without comparing - anyone notice a massive difference under stress with expensive coolers?
Audio problems fixed using
ottomezzi solution here
#43 - nice one! Strangely it went away (prob cos I was swapping HDs and booting into windows) but came back using 14.2 system def in MultiBeast.
Have a legacy build of Win 10 running on a separate SSD, just whipped out of my old mac - used Clover, Mount EFI > Edit config - Boot > set Mac HD as 1st and Legacy BIOS as 2nd and that works too!
TP-LINK TL-WDN4800 N900 Wireless Dual Band PCI Express Adapter worked straight out of the can.
Photoshop, Lightroom, Indesign, Illus all working fine n dandy.
And power consumption down by very roughly 100w from the Mac Pro 1.1 (8 core 3ghz).
Glad I got the R5, cos though I've hacked a Lenovo N200 laptop, it's not the same as fitting a bunch of stuff in a case and for a 1st build I doubt you want the added stress of cramming everything into a pretty little box.
I haven't got to some nitty gritty - iMessages (might work but never really used it anyway).
Can't believe it went so smoothly - but only cos of top peeps on this forum taking time to do vids and post solutions
Cheers again!
PS - is that red LED with 51 on the Motherboard anything to worry about?