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Quad 2.66 -> Octo 2.8

AppleNewton

AppleNewton

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I had a few questions/inquiries about transferring over to the Octo 2.8

Right now im running a 2.66 Ghz Quad w/ 3gb of Ram + ATI x1900 + 500gb CTO drive.

does the expandability offer much significance for hardware?
the bus performance, memory performance?

Also, my main concern is i have a 500gb internal drive in Bay2 for XP, if i remove that from there and slap it in the new Octo 2.8 will it still properly boot and function? or would i have to start over?


thanks!!
 
I would also like to know the correct answer to your problem.

I've had all but bad luck on any xp partitions. If you can, duplicate the drive beforehand.

Sorry I can't offer any concrete advice for the matter.
 
oh no prob, thanks for posting here, its good to see someone else curious about it too.

the main reason i ask is because i did alot of custom pc building prior to purchasing a macpro and i know sometimes, you can jus switch out motherboards/cpus and not have to do a full reinstall. which would make my life easier...beccause i know the hell it is with reinstalling everything windows.

ugh!! (lol)

i also have a Leopard install disc if maybe that has all the new drivers for the Octo CPUS i could preinstall it on the XP drive and maybe it will "octo-proof" it so it can read the information?

lol idk, but its worth a shot.
 
AppleNewton, thats an interesting thought you have there. Knowing how xp / vista WGA stuff works and given that the new Oct core runs on a new chipset, the likely answer is that whilst it *might* boot into xp, you will almost certainly need to activate again.

I have ordered my first Mac Pro 2.8 2x quad and look forward to running dual boot with Vista / XP64. Sorry not much help, but I think you could assume that the above is 'most likely' to be required.

-casw1000
fold4life.com
 
AppleNewton said:
i also have a Leopard install disc if maybe that has all the new drivers for the Octo CPUS i could preinstall it on the XP drive and maybe it will "octo-proof" it so it can read the information?
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You'd need to use the restore disks that come with the new Mac Pro for that. The retail Leopard disk is too old to have current drivers.
 
Cromulent said:
You'd need to use the restore disks that come with the new Mac Pro for that. The retail Leopard disk is too old to have current drivers.
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ahh yes! thanks!


and i dont mind activating, just a hassle to resinstall all those updates/patches and figure out which framework version to install, as CS2 doesnt install unless ou have the right one. that was my biggest obstacle for somereason when i first set up my Quad MacPro.

any suggestions on a good clone utility for XP? just in case?
thanks!
 
just bumping this thread, with the lot of those who recently got their macpros that previously had a mac pro quad system.

im looking into selling my Quadcore to put towards the Octocore system but i wanted to keep my exact windows partition on the same drive; has anyone done this....successfully?

ie; transfer XP drive from previous Macpro to new macpro?

sorry if it is repetitive however i ask as im cautious about reinstalling a good set system.


thanks!
 
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