A few last questions before upgrading 2009 Mac Pro with a W3680

[DetroitRockCity]

Greetings,
I will be purchasing a W3680 CPU to install in my 2009 Quad Mac Pro. I just have a few more final questions before pulling that trigger.

1.) I currently have 1066MHz RAM from OWC. From what I can see in previous posts, the 1066MHz will still work?

2.) Is there anything else I need to prep for besides getting the 2010 Mac Pro firmware to work?

3.) My Mac Pro still runs Snow Leopard. Should I update to Lion before I do this?

4.) Lastly, lets talk SSD drives. My primary purpose for this machine is video editing in which my media is on internal HDs and firewire 800 drives. If I upgrade my OS drive to a SSD, but still use traditional HDs that have my media on it, will I see any speed increase?

 

[nanofrog]

1.) I currently have 1066MHz RAM from OWC. From what I can see in previous posts, the 1066MHz will still work?

Yes.

2.) Is there anything else I need to prep for besides getting the 2010 Mac Pro firmware to work?

No.

3.) My Mac Pro still runs Snow Leopard. Should I update to Lion before I do this?

Not necessary at all.

4.) Lastly, lets talk SSD drives. My primary purpose for this machine is video editing in which my media is on internal HDs and firewire 800 drives. If I upgrade my OS drive to a SSD, but still use traditional HDs that have my media on it, will I see any speed increase?

The system will boot and load applications a bit quicker. But applications won't actually run any faster as a result of an SSD.

You'd need to address your storage system to make a real increase in speed. For example, you can move scratch space to a small, separate SSD, and move your primary storage to a RAID system of some sort (can offer both speed and redundancy).

FW800 is too slow as a primary storage pool for your described usage.